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Club Motorsports is located just northeast of Lake Winnipesaukee on Route 25 in Tamworth, NH. It’s located about twenty minutes from both North Conway and Meredith. Both areas have many great hotels and restaurants. The track has 15 turns and is 2.5 miles in length with a 40-foot-wide surface, and over 250 feet of elevation changes. The smooth track surface with the wide turns and more than adequate run off areas makes it ideal for both novice and advanced drivers.
Here are a few of the comments from last year’s participants:
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“Great school at a great track. Looking forward to coming back.”
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“Well organized, everything was right on schedule, everyone was friendly and helpful. I will do more of these.”
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“More events at Club Motorsports!!!”
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Ice Pedal --- OMG My Brakes Don’t Work
What It Is, Why It Happens and What to Do About It
by Art Meltzer
Many of us have had the awful experience of Ice Pedal (IP for short) – applying the brakes in a heavy braking zone only to find the brake pedal incompressible and the brakes barely slowing the car. This often results in going very wide around the corner, going off the track, or worse. I’ve heard various explanations of IP which suggests no one really knows what causes it.
IP is not unique to Porsche. Randy Probst describes an incident of IP on youtube while driving a yellow Mazda turbo RX-7 in 1994 at Road Atlanta. Incidentally, I’ve heard drivers of GM and Ford cars describe IP.
Bosch manufactures all Porsche brake components. I contacted Bosch inquiring about IP. All they would tell me is that IP occurs as a consequence of the ABS computer not being able to correctly analyze the wheel speed sensor data so that the computer determines there is significant wheel slip when, in fact no wheel slip is occurring.
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By Art Meltzer
Most of us learned to drive on a car with an automatic transmission. We were taught to use our right foot to operate both the brake and gas pedals. Let’s call this one-foot driving (OFD). There is no role for your left foot in OFD. For those who learned to drive on a manual transmission your left foot was limited to operating the clutch pedal.
Probably the most important reason for the limited role of your left foot is safety. Using only your right foot for both the gas and brake minimizes the likelihood that you will step on the gas instead of the brake and vice-versa. Also, OFD rules out the possibility that you will simultaneously apply the gas and brake. Simultaneous application of the gas and brake will unnecessarily wear the brakes and may damage the torque converter in the transmission.
Let’s use the term left-foot braking (LFB) to refer to using your left foot to brake. This article will highlight the advantages of LFB over OFD and provide the reader with a mechanism to learn LFB.
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