Watkins Glen trip report

Back from a 6 hour drive and I'm still in one piece. There was one other Cayman S at the event but several 997 Turbos in the beginner group and a few 2007 Z06's.

I was driving my 2007 Infiniti G35s 6-speed sedan (the family hauler). My Cayman S is still on the boat right now.

The Infiniti had 7600 miles and should be well broken in.

The first day was cold! 29 degrees in the morning with winds and never got up past 50 degrees during the day.

My first run was a disaster. Now I'm always real gentle with my cars so I never had the Infiniti past 6000 RPM for more than 1 sec. So I'm out on the track doing what needs to be done with engine never getting below 5000 RPM.

At some point during a hard turn, my electronic nannies go haywire and light up my dash like a Christmas tree. The vehicle stability control goes nuts and into a safe mode and turns itself off. The is the equivalent of PSM on the Porsches.

I pull into the pits and contemplate running the next two days with this "issue". According to the forums, if the stability control is off, you're just asking to spin out.

Well my instructor felt that if you were smooth and are doing everything correctly, it won't matter. So off we went and the next two track days were w/o PSM.

The system would reset itself after turning the car off for 10 minutes. My guess is the computer looked at the speed, pitch/yaw and hard braking rates and gave up thinking there is seriously something wrong with the system and put it into that mode.