Track night with the ST

[JFam]

Took the ST to our local Test and Tune on Thursday for some more baseline runs. Thermal Exhaust and S&B of which I know are more audible resulting than performance. It is my second time to the track with this and just will not 60' and holding me back from some very good stock tune runs. I have advance trac off but when holding the brake and goint WOT at the line, once i release the brake it just goes flat / pauses momentarily. Previous 60' last time was in the mid 2.2's. This time I held the brake and brought up the rpms to like 2500 with part throttle and got the 60 down to 2.15 and ran a best that night of 13.601. Here is a short vid of my 13.68 pass at 103.46mph. I manually shifted this run but touched the limiter in 1-2 shift. The 13.60 I let the trans shift itself which seemed to be a little short IMO.



My duaghter was also there running her RS5 and her BF running his M4.

ST run (don't know why this one is not embedding like the other??)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y7G9eeHf47o


RS5 vs M4

 

[UNBROKEN]

Turn traction control off…Advance Trac off is irrelevant since that is for curvy roads. Sport mode, brake hard to the floor, RPM’s around 2900, let the brake go and floor it. You won’t go sub-2 on a stock tune. Do the same process with a 93 tune and you should go mid-1.70’s

 

[JFam]

Turn traction control off…Advance Trac off is irrelevant since that is for curvy roads. Sport mode, brake hard to the floor, RPM’s around 2900, let the brake go and floor it. You won’t go sub-2 on a stock tune. Do the same process with a 93 tune and you should go mid-1.70’s

Advance Trac off turns off all the nannies, been doing it forever but yes I get it is more for the vehicle stepping out of its footprint.

What you are describing is what I did on Thursday and dropped the 60 a tenth but yes a little more seat time and hopefully get it in the 2.0 range.

 

[UNBROKEN]

Advance Trac off turns off all the nannies, been doing it forever but yes I get it is more for the vehicle stepping out of its footprint.

What you are describing is what I did on Thursday and dropped the 60 a tenth but yes a little more seat time and hopefully get it in the 2.0 range.

You would run the exact same time with only traction control turned off.

 

[JFam]

You would run the exact same time with only traction control turned off.

Correct, and I never implied Advance Trac was more beneficial.

That said if on TC is off and by chance the cars spins and steps out to one side or another, Advance Trac would kick in thus the reason I have always turned everything completely off.

Again, I have done this for a long time and just mentally programmed to alwasys turn it off and no disadvantage in doing that.