Jun 7, 2011 12:46:12 PM
- Porsche-Jeck
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Reply to:
Gnil
Re: Scuderia Hanseat , october 2011 session
Gnil:
Ask P-J , what he thinks. He has been driving the Ring for a few years now, and last year he did the course for the first time. As you are also pretty often there , his experience should be closer to yours.
Hi 'Ring friends 
I certainly can recommend the SH course and I enjoyed it a lot. IMHO it's the course with the most comprehensive feedback (almost on every corner) helping to finetune your lines and driving techniques. As the Nordschleife is 4x - 5x longer than a modern GP-circuit it also makes a lot of sense to divide it into sections. However for my taste the sections (13 ?) are a bit too many (or a bit too short) - only IMHO. Maybe it's different if you're a Newbie but when you have a couple of hundred full laps under your belt it's difficult to get into the flow of the Nordschleife with some of the sections. Sometimes I was thinking about the right gear choice which never happens on a full lap as the automatic program in my brain is doing the choice for me 
- that program obviously suffers some hick ups if you accelerate from a stand still somewhere in the middle of the track 
Though the sections' cut off points are chosen with thought IMHO 
- with one exception: Pflanzgarten II (one of the most demanding and most satisfying sections if you get it right at speed 
) is torn apart 
Some "dissidents" have been organising a similar course for the first time last year:
http://www.scuderia-s7.com/en/portrait.html
Main difference: smaller number of sections (6), max. 7 cars per group, full laps (in small groups) following the instructor cars.
Unfortunately I didn't have the time to participate in this year's course (took place last week) but it's definitely on my to-do-list for next year.
As for the PSDS Performance Training: bluelines has summed it up perfectly I participated two years ago and really loved it: only 67 participants back then, small groups (5 to 6 cars per group only) and lot of occasions to "chase the instructors 
" for some full laps. No section training - it's more in the format of the Sport Auto Perfektionstraining. If I recall correctly that was the only occasion ever for me to drive 10 consecutive fast laps - I was sweating like hell
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As my records are not that precise than yours I missed to celebrate the '1,000" 
Can't wait!
