{"id":103,"date":"2026-07-25T05:11:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heritage-porsche.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2026-07-25T05:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:11:55","slug":"blackhawk-farms-raceway-chicagoland-pca-taco-tuesday-hpde-hot-tires-and-my-first-real-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heritage-porsche.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/blackhawk-farms-raceway-chicagoland-pca-taco-tuesday-hpde-hot-tires-and-my-first-real-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawk Farms Raceway | Chicagoland PCA Taco Tuesday HPDE &#8211; Hot Tires and My First Real Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blackhawk Farms Raceway | Chicagoland PCA Taco Tuesday HPDE - Hot Tires and My First Real Off\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DowlK1tgAzQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Tuesday, I traveled to Blackhawk Farms Raceway for the Chicagoland Region PCA Taco Tuesday HPDE, where I had the privilege of serving as an instructor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blackhawk Farms quickly became one of the most enjoyable tracks I have ever driven. This video follows roughly eight to ten laps from my final session of the day in The Heritage Porsche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The car drove beautifully, and the Bridgestone Potenza RE-71RS tires provided an incredible amount of grip. Possibly too much grip. Their performance gave me more confidence than I probably should have had as the session progressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the last lap of the run, the tire-pressure monitoring system started sounded an alarm. One tire was reading approximately 50 degrees hotter than the others. I saw the warning, but I treated it more like an inconvenience than a serious indication that something was wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That decision caught up with me on the final lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody was injured, and the car came through without damage, but I experienced my first genuine off-track excursion in quite a while. It was a clear reminder that when the car gives you a warning, especially when a tire is hot enough to trigger an alarm, you need to listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch through the end to see what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Event: Chicagoland Region PCA Taco Tuesday HPDE<br>Date: July 14, 2026<br>Track: Blackhawk Farms Raceway<br>Car: The Heritage Porsche &#8211; 1999 Porsche 911 Carrera<br>Tires: Bridgestone Potenza RE-71RS (very &#8220;lived-in&#8221;)<br>Car Number: 993<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Heritage Porsche Project follows Porsche ownership, motorsports, HPDE instruction, racing, autocross, technical development, and the stories of the drivers and enthusiasts who make the Porsche community special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Tuesday, I traveled to Blackhawk Farms Raceway for the Chicagoland Region PCA Taco Tuesday HPDE, where I had the privilege of serving as an instructor. Blackhawk Farms quickly became one of the most enjoyable tracks I have ever driven. This video follows roughly eight to ten laps from my final session of the day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritage-porsche.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritage-porsche.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritage-porsche.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritage-porsche.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritage-porsche.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heritage-porsche.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/heritage-porsche.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritage-porsche.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritage-porsche.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritage-porsche.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritage-porsche.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}