My Model 3 got to enjoy the Mid-Ohio track this Friday, I got to watch from the side. My son had a track event and was willing to give the Model 3 a try. He managed to do 3 laps (more like 2 laps) as the brakes did overheat almost immediately and were toast pretty quick. He felt the car behaved very well, was controllable and neutral, and if had had some good brakes it would have made it much better. The car is stock with the 18” wheels but Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires (much better than the stock ones) at 35 psi for this run. We flushed the brake system with Castrol SRF racing fluid but that did not seem to help a lot – it looks like we really need good race compound brake pads to be able to take this car to the track.



Here is the video from the car:



… and the video from the chase car (Aaron is a track friend of Rudy, who was eager to see how the Model 3 would do):



… and here is the car dash cam video (sorry it has no audio):



The good lap he managed to do he clocked at 1:54, which he wasn’t quite happy with, he thinks the car can do better with good brakes. BTW this is his best time at that track so far in his heavily modified M3 (the real M3 J) (1:40):

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