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3.3K views 20 replies 12 participants last post by  bearaqua72  
#1 ·

pretty impressive result for a stock cts-v at the event
 
#7 · (Edited)
Oh hi guys. :) Yeah that's my wagon, my best this year was 3:51 on mismatched F/R rubber (long story short: on Saturday I chewed through my Bridgestone Potenza Pole Position S-04 front inner edges and made a frantic search at 1pm on Saturday afternoon through all of Carson City and Reno for anything that would fit, and ended up with Conti DWs up front for Sunday, which while better than not racing was not optimal.) There's a strong chance I was in the 3:40s on Saturday's practice runs but the timing people screwed up and used my number with another driver, so there's no way to be sure.

Lieberman did confuse people in the youtube comments by saying something about a 1:xx time - he meant 3:xx. The record on the hill I believe is 3:12 or so in a Ferrari F40 years ago; last year the fastest car (the grey GT-R) ran a 3:17 or 3:18, and this year he was actually a little slower at 3:22 or so but still won the event. I bet he comes back next year and sets a new record.

Likewise for me next year the plan is to go back with real rubber - MPSS at a minimum, or more likely Hoosiers - as well as sway bars and maybe some other stuff. 3:40s shouldn't be a stretch, and I think 3:30s are a possibility in this car with me driving it (and I'm no pro.)

Real fun event - worth the 1100 mile drive each way from/to the suburbs of Denver. :)
 
#18 ·
Real fun event - worth the 1100 mile drive each way from/to the suburbs of Denver. :)
You're not too far from me! We need to get in a V meet before winter hits.
 
#10 ·
OK, I'm sold. Both on the hill climb and the new CTS-V's performance. 2 years until I haz it.....
 
#13 ·
Thanks. :) So long as I continue to see incremental year-over-year improvement, I'm going to be content with my driving. I'm pretty sure I was in the 3:40s on Saturday. Next year I'm going to come with real tires, hopefully stiffer sway bars... That's the goal anyway!

Now consider that the fastest guys up the hill this year were 30 seconds faster than me:



I got a ride in shoeish's GT-R last year and he did 3:20 with me in the car. Just insane. Easily the fastest car I have ever been in around a corner.