SCCA Solo II Event #2 - TMS Bus Lot - 4/27/08

[Clovis]

Wow:

• CS beat BS, AS, and all but the top 3 SS
• ES beat CS, BS, AS, and all but the top 3 SS
• STS2 beat STS

Nice showing by those pesky Miatas!

Bizarre weather day. Anyone who ran 1st heat in those conditions is a great driver IMO. The course improved ~13 seconds between 1st and 4th runs. Congrats to all who drove well.

Let's hope it stays dry for next weekend.

[Miatamoto]

Bizarre weather day. Anyone who ran 1st heat in those conditions is a great driver IMO. The course improved ~13 seconds between 1st and 4th runs. Congrats to all who drove well.

Let's hope it stays dry for next weekend.

+1

Let's also hope for some warm weather. Despite the dry conditions in the afternoon, we were fighting for traction because we couldn't get any heat in the tires.

[Robert]

Anyone who ran 1st heat in those conditions is a great driver IMO. The course improved ~13 seconds between 1st and 4th runs. Congrats to all who drove well.

Let's hope it stays dry for next weekend.[/QUOTE]



+antother 1

Nobody wanted to run 1st heat for those that did. Even when the bus lot is dry it gets alot faster as the day goes on.

[altiain]

Also most the BS people switched to BSP to run in the afternoon when weather conditions were iffy. First 2 morning runs sucked but run 3 and 4 were dry. BS to BSP entrants were blazing fast with JFo blasting a 49.1 on his final run and Thomas not far behind. My gf actually spanked the lone BS entrant in Miatamoto's car by 2 seconds!

I wondered what was up with all the B Stockers in BSP.

[sammm]

I wondered what was up with all the B Stockers in BSP.

So they could run in the 2nd heat.

[Solo RX-7]

One gripe though, is there a reason why we had 2 heats? In the 1st heat we had, um, plenty of leftover workers. Would've given people a chance to warm up in between heats and ulitmately allowed more runs. Kudos to SCCA for getting 4 runs done and out of there by 3:30 though.

2 heats was a call we made early in the day. At the time we were scheduled to open registration there were about 20 people there. Weather was keeping everyone away, and we didn't know if they'd show up or not. After we made that decision folks continued to trickle in, and even after we had a total tally it looked marginal on being able to go to three heats. That marginal number and the chaos that would've ensued with a total re-do of the run work order (3rd time) led us to stick with the 2 heat format. Everyone jumping classes the morning of the event to get a 2nd heat run group didn't help either.

In retrospect we had something off on our total count, because the number we based the 2 heat decision on was around 90 entrants when there ended up being 122 with times. At 122 we could've pulled off a 3 heat format. At 90 it doesn't work so well.

With 122 drivers adding another run would've added an hour to the event just in raw run time (122 runs x 25 second interval). That would've been an additional 30 minutes for the course workers in the first heat who were out there in horrible conditions. That was the main reason we made the call to go with 4 runs instead of 5 - we didn't want to leave folks out there in really crummy conditions any longer.

I happen to love that surface, even when it's wet. I always do well on slick surfaces. (50.3 with a dumb cone in an ES car!)

[ratt_finkel]

I love the surface too. When I'm driving something with AWD!

[Miatamoto]

Here's my fastest run. Could have gone faster, messed up in a few spots.

[general default]

Think I should put some slicks on the RX-8 and I would be faster in it than my BMod car. Nice time Thomas.

I wonder why the vimeo site videos never work for me?

Here's my fastest run. Could have gone faster, messed up in a few spots.

[CosmosMpower]

Think I should put some slicks on the RX-8 and I would be faster in it than my BMod car. Nice time Thomas.

I wonder why the vimeo site videos never work for me?

I think you need the latest flash plugin to view the videos.

[Mark52]

Think I should put some slicks on the RX-8 and I would be faster in it than my BMod car. Nice time Thomas.

I wonder why the vimeo site videos never work for me?

I would have been faster if I had run my grandaughter's Radio Flyer wagon pulled by my Dachund Heidi!!!! I have never learned the secret of driving fast at the Bus Lot.

[CosmosMpower]

I would have been faster if I had run my grandaughter's Radio Flyer wagon pulled by my Dachund Heidi!!!! I have never learned the secret of driving fast at the Bus Lot.

Dachshund FTW! Mine autocrosses the furniture regularly.

[Mark52]

Dachshund FTW! Mine autocrosses the furniture regularly.

LOL I know what you mean!

[Prova7]

I have never learned the secret of driving fast at the Bus Lot.

Don't fear the surface and just hammer it. The bus lot seems to be the only place where sliding the car is faster.

[Steve E]

We had an interesting conversation with the TMS worker that was on site Sunday. He said that a car control clinic had been recently held on the site and that soapy water was sprayed on the far end of the lot for the wet driving session. Maybe that explains why it was so greasy down there. I know as 2nd car out in Heat 1 the corner at the far end was a pucker on 1st runs and still slimy on run 4. I really felt sorry for the poor kiddos in the Karts.
Steve

[ratt_finkel]

WOW! That IS interesting! It was slick as shinola down there!

[onething]

Nothing new. Talk to NealB or OzCop or Neff.

Just be glad they did it down there. We all know soap runs down hill

[autocrosspicturesnet]

Pics are posted:

http://autocrosspictures.net/SCCASolo042708/

Even managed to get a few shots of a certain CSP competitor:



I was going to comment that "at least he looks fast," but I ain't no speed demon myself, so I won't say it.

[ratt_finkel]

Great pics Dennis! Not to be a whiner...BUT...I'd love to see more shots of anything besides the side of the car. I'm not sure about everyone else. But I love to see the car mid-turn or even exiting a turn when everything is loaded up, etc.

Such as...



Or...


Or even...

[tailchaser]

Yeah... if they're gonna be from the side, they need excitement (like peeing on a pylon!)