A recent issue of Car and Driver had an article listing states with the best roads. They mentioned that the data was obtained from Porsche's GTS Routes application.
This free app is available for Android, iOS, and browser. You can view existing routes, or create your own with the Drive feature. Once saved, you can share it out to the community.
Last week, I returned from a road trip from WA state to Monterey, CA to watch the historic racing at Laguna Seca (saw 5 New GT350's running on the track - that flat plane V8 sounds awesome). During the drive there and back, I recorded 6 routes from the border with Oregon south to around Geyserville. I like the app and encourage you to take a look at it.
One route called Mattole Road, which I did not create but did follow, on the Lost Coast south of Eureka should be avoided. The road has really deteriorated over the last few years and is now loaded with large potholes. I bent 2 TD ProRace 1.2's on this road probably because I was running fairly low pressure on my AD08R's (35 lbs hot).
A couple of my recorded roads have long downhill sections which are tough on brakes. I had brake fade 3 times even with Torque fluid and Porterfield R4 pads.
I also got an engine overtemp alarm once within two minutes of starting up a 5% grade in 3rd and 4th gears. It was 78 degrees out and about 2,000 feet.
Overall, what a great trip and what a great car. Hope you enjoy the app. Let us know if you've also had experience with this app and have recorded routes.
This free app is available for Android, iOS, and browser. You can view existing routes, or create your own with the Drive feature. Once saved, you can share it out to the community.
Last week, I returned from a road trip from WA state to Monterey, CA to watch the historic racing at Laguna Seca (saw 5 New GT350's running on the track - that flat plane V8 sounds awesome). During the drive there and back, I recorded 6 routes from the border with Oregon south to around Geyserville. I like the app and encourage you to take a look at it.
One route called Mattole Road, which I did not create but did follow, on the Lost Coast south of Eureka should be avoided. The road has really deteriorated over the last few years and is now loaded with large potholes. I bent 2 TD ProRace 1.2's on this road probably because I was running fairly low pressure on my AD08R's (35 lbs hot).
A couple of my recorded roads have long downhill sections which are tough on brakes. I had brake fade 3 times even with Torque fluid and Porterfield R4 pads.
I also got an engine overtemp alarm once within two minutes of starting up a 5% grade in 3rd and 4th gears. It was 78 degrees out and about 2,000 feet.
Overall, what a great trip and what a great car. Hope you enjoy the app. Let us know if you've also had experience with this app and have recorded routes.
