Went to Sonoma for the first time in the GT4 - Video Recap

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Went to Sonoma Raceway with PCA Golden Gate Region. Did two days of a three day event. If you have been avoiding Sonoma for the walls like I have, you might consider going. It's a really fun course.

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Great video as always. Watched the best lap on the big screen :) Is the PDK just so smart that there's no point in trying to shift it yourself on the track? Any sound limits to worry about?

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Tom, thanks for watching! The PDK was good for about 98% of the time. Occasionally it did downshift on a turn exit which could be dangerous. However, it reads throttle input so maybe I wasn’t managing that well and it thought it was a good time to downshift? That only happened I think when I was taking it easy on the first couple sessions. Like grandma easy.

There were a couple turns where the rise in elevation made me want a bit more torque so I would slap the downshift paddle to force it (or try only for it to say NO)

I didn’t know there was a sound limit but a 992 GT3 did get black flagged for sound apparently.

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Great job on the video, that was fun to watch, and thanks for sharing!

I saw an instructor once put a line of painters tape across the windshield and tell his student to only look above it while driving the track!

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