Track day at Mecaglisse
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:25 am
Last Sunday I drove up to Mecaglisse from Ottawa, its about 2.5 hours away in Quebec close by Mount Tremblant. This is the only picture of the track layout on the website which quite frankly sucks. The track I ran on was #1 layout. They weren't running the full course but still plenty large enough to run 6-8 cars at a time.
This was an open lapping day which meant anyone could sign up, pay a measly $120 and run all day long. $120 later and I was out for a day of fun. There were three lapping groups, the first had the novices and was a mix of German machinery: 911's, M6, Audi TT, Vette and a Super 7. Middle groups was a complete mix of 350Z, Toyota Echo, Mazdaspeed 3, Golf. Then there was our group, 3 Subies: My Forester XT, STi , RS + JDM mad tyte group of Skyline R33, Fairlady (JDM 300z TT) and a couple Integra Type RRRRRs.
Overall a great day and a ton of fun. The exception were the Skyline + Integra drivers which didn't understand Blue flag means I'm on your ass and let me pass on the straight. There's only one real straight were we could pass and they kept flooring it every time to outrun me. Stupid. I started to push them a little harder hoping they'd get the point and let me pass but that's when they were getting all squirly on hard breaking off the straight into the 90 sweeper so I just said screw it, not worth the accident and lived with it.
Other than that it was a blast, I love this track. Its very technical with tons of corners and elevation changes. Some people think its slower than other large tracks but they just don't know how to drive
Last year with my last Forester I was able to hit about 115 down the straight, with much larger tires and better suspension I'm now knocking on 140.
Probably my most fun session was being well in front of the JDM crew and battling it out with the STi for a several hot laps. I was able to hold my own, not too bad considering the STi driver is well experienced at the track as well.
My next mod is true race pads. I run Hawk HP+ which are great but I'm now starting to exceed their limits and towards the end was fading them. I'm going to move up to Porterfield R4's which are a true race pad.
Now for the pics, I didn't take these. I came across them on another forum. I'm driving the Lesbo wagon for those that don't know. Only mods are coilover suspension + R compound tires.
This was an open lapping day which meant anyone could sign up, pay a measly $120 and run all day long. $120 later and I was out for a day of fun. There were three lapping groups, the first had the novices and was a mix of German machinery: 911's, M6, Audi TT, Vette and a Super 7. Middle groups was a complete mix of 350Z, Toyota Echo, Mazdaspeed 3, Golf. Then there was our group, 3 Subies: My Forester XT, STi , RS + JDM mad tyte group of Skyline R33, Fairlady (JDM 300z TT) and a couple Integra Type RRRRRs.
Overall a great day and a ton of fun. The exception were the Skyline + Integra drivers which didn't understand Blue flag means I'm on your ass and let me pass on the straight. There's only one real straight were we could pass and they kept flooring it every time to outrun me. Stupid. I started to push them a little harder hoping they'd get the point and let me pass but that's when they were getting all squirly on hard breaking off the straight into the 90 sweeper so I just said screw it, not worth the accident and lived with it.
Other than that it was a blast, I love this track. Its very technical with tons of corners and elevation changes. Some people think its slower than other large tracks but they just don't know how to drive
Last year with my last Forester I was able to hit about 115 down the straight, with much larger tires and better suspension I'm now knocking on 140. Probably my most fun session was being well in front of the JDM crew and battling it out with the STi for a several hot laps. I was able to hold my own, not too bad considering the STi driver is well experienced at the track as well.
My next mod is true race pads. I run Hawk HP+ which are great but I'm now starting to exceed their limits and towards the end was fading them. I'm going to move up to Porterfield R4's which are a true race pad.
Now for the pics, I didn't take these. I came across them on another forum. I'm driving the Lesbo wagon for those that don't know. Only mods are coilover suspension + R compound tires.
