Track Report – Canaan, NH with Gary Cheney in his FFR818R

Gary Cheney and I went to Canaan Race track with COMSCC to test out his newly built FFR818R

Gary Cheney wrote the following:

“After a long, long time and three motors, with the help of the guys, especially Paul at ECS in Connecticut, my car hit the track this past Saturday morning for a test and tune day at the new track in Canaan NH. I also got the pleasure of having John George help me tie things up the night before and had him co driving it with me. Having not run on the track in many years it was great to have a driver with John’s talent for feedback throughout the day.

We also got to have this other guy come along with his FFR Daytona coupe for some track time too. I can’t remember his name………………… Oh, that’s right, I think it was…..Smith? I think he said his first name was Dave but I might be wrong. Paul from ECS also attended and was constantly downloading the data from my OBD2 port and tweaking different things in reference to how the car was handling temperatures.

Needless to say……………………..the car ran PERFECT! No adjustments to suspension, air pressures, fluids, etc. It was just the pleasure of run it, run it, add fuel, run it, run it, add fuel, run it, run it, etc, etc! John was running about 6 seconds a lap faster than me and having not been on the track in so long I was adamant that my main goal was to come home with no damage both by crashing or god forbid blowing something up. Myself and that guy named Dave had to work flagging during the first session and it was awesome watching JG out there, Within three laps it was like he was shooting fish in a barrel!

Later in the day he took my place in the #1 run group (which that other guy named Dave was running in too) with the big boys and JG was still the fastest guy out there! Watching hm chase down that Daytona coupe and passing him was really cool! It was better than a watching a Porn film watching JG out brake others going into the turns! It’s 305 RWHP was a frigging slingshot coming out of the turns, My only issue turned out to be my physical limitations, Thee years ago at 57 I put the fear of god in the 40 plus class racing off road motorcycles, now just three years later I feel like I am 107! My back has been surviving on cortisone shots that don’t work anymore and I am awaiting back surgery soon. That, along with having lost that finger last month, makes me a shell of how I used to feel. Just that one day at the track in my 818 made me feel like I had raced the supercross at foxboro when I woke up this morning so now I have no idea how long it will be before I get to run again but my body’s health must come first being my bread and butter in construction.

Here’s video of JG going at it. Wish I had some external footage though.”

Gary the car is awesome! Thanks for letting me drive it.. so much grip, its insane! I looked at the data from the last session, and on Nitto tires, it pulls 1.4G in the turns, .7G in acceleration, and 1.2G under braking! no wonder you felt sore!

Nice to see Dave Smith flogging a coupe on track! pretty fast too.

Here are 2 more videos of you taken from the tower, and from the pit straight.