After 14 years, I'm still finding time at this track, but it's not getting any easier. Since my previous best 1:27.04, I've switched from Bilstein rear shocks to Öhlins that were valved by Hayden Burvill at Wevo. The new shocks are adjustable, and I hope to get even more time out of them with a little more testing.

This was a Friday morning, and it wasn't as cold as I would have liked it to be. There were also 25-mph gusts of wind coming in from the west, which meant I was 4-5 mph slower on the front straight, but only 1 mph faster at the end of turn 8. 

The car is a 1972 Porsche 911. It has a bone stock engine from a 1995 911, putting out 272 hp at the crank. I'm on a set of Nitto NT01 tires that I've been using for both the street and the track for almost a year now. 

The reason my car gets around so quickly is an assortment of suspension ideas by Tyson Schmidt, who is the race tech for Hergesheimer Motorsports and found some ways to make my car's 1960s Volkswagen technology get through corners like nobody's business.