Track Day 12 - Laguna Seca

Track Wheel Bearings - MPI Race Bearing Review (Superior to SKF X-tracker?)

So somewhere during my 16th and 17th track day I suffered the near catastrophic failure of an OEM wheel hub. Nothing about that was entirely surprising really, as the C5 Corvette OEM hubs are known to fail as you begin to progress to a more aggressive level with your track driving. Check out the picture below though where you can see just how thoroughly my wheel hubs failed!

Track Day 16 + 17 -- Big Willow & Streets of Willow -- Front Splitter only on a high speed track and then a tight and technical track!

After spending a bunch of time installing my 9 Live Racing Splitter and adding just a bit of extra spoiler to the rear of the C5 corvette, I was ready to hit up two back to back track days!

Day 1 - Big Willow

Track Day 8 - Buttonwillow CW1 and Putting the Hurt on Porsches!

The next track day with the NC Miata was to take place at Buttonwillow CA. Thus, this would be the first track besides Streets of Willow this car had ever been on and my GF had ever driven the car at.

Modifications going into this track day were two fold:

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