2010 Nats thread

[Davidss]

Some of the Atlanta guys trained a dog to fetch cones:


And if they gave out trophies for simply being badass runner up would be the dragon exige:


But first place would have to be this C4 Vette. The announcers put it best, "It Sounds Like America!":




One Meat
One Cookie

[vetteblues10]

http://sccaforums.com/forums/storage...-RTP.Final.pdf

One behind Mr. Piper...

[autoxmax]

Just posted photos of the Pro Solo:

http://autoxmax.smugmug.com/Cars/SCCA-Pro-Finale-2010/

[mwortham]

Great shots as always Brad!

So if we trained enough dogs to fetch cones, and chimpanzees to work the radios & red flags, we could eliminate a lot of work assignments. A chimp could probably do a better job of running the computer than I do anyway!

I think the XPro class has been good for all of us in it this year. We've all been pushing each other to go faster and be more consistent. We need to keep that up and get a few more in the class too.

Now, if I can just figure out how to make my car sound like America!

[miata_racer]

Andrew and I had a chat online about my black car and his last year...he's a good guy with about $500 more than me...so he's a good guy with a budget to win :)

BTW, the STS winner was in a 1.6 Smurf that still had the stock passenger seat, heavy 15x7.5 Rotas like mine, OTS Koni Sports in the rear, and re-valved Koni Sports in the front. He had a Megasquirt, but with only a few hours of dyno time to tune it the day before they left for the event. It goes to show, that mad skilz can win over money. I have neither.

[altiain]

Now, if I can just figure out how to make my car sound like America!

Lol - if a big ol' V8 sounds like America, I guess an uncapped rotary "sounds like Japan"?

[autoxmax]

did you guys catch this photo? (#47 of the Pro photos)

look carefully... Yes, he's on 2 wheels!

[sammm]

Great pics!

[jrj512]

STS winner's car.

[nomadtrash]

yes, he's on 2 wheels

btdt

http://www.youtube.com/user/autocros.../2/glFi3IhsPAg

[CosmosMpower]

STS winner's car.

2015 lbs is pretty light

[jrj512]

2015 lbs is pretty light

Yep, but still about 25 pounds more than it could be.

[general default]

2010 C-Stock Miata National Champion, Bryan Heitkotter. I guess this is how is should be done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...=IzRxvOQ9p_Y#!

[autoxmax]

Posted more photos from Nationals -

Day 1 : http://autoxmax.smugmug.com/Cars/SCC...ationals-Tues/

[danzo]

Yep, but still about 25 pounds more than it could be.

Imagine how light it could be if he fabbed the entire unibody out of carbon fiber....

[modernbeat]

Yep, but still about 25 pounds more than it could be.

Actually, about 40 pounds more than it could be.

[jrj512]

Imagine how light it could be if he fabbed the entire unibody out of carbon fiber....

Then it would not be legal for the class.

[autoxmax]

There's some changes that might happen in the XP class rather soon.

During the Town Hall meeting in Lincoln there was talk about revamping min. weight formulas for the boosted XP cars. The weight requirements are rather outdated compaired to what can be obtained with modern forced induction hardware!

[CosmosMpower]

There's some changes that might happen in the XP class rather soon.

During the Town Hall meeting in Lincoln there was talk about revamping min. weight formulas for the boosted XP cars. The weight requirements are rather outdated compaired to what can be obtained with modern forced induction hardware!

Does that mean that they will penalize boosted XP cars with more ballast?

[modernbeat]

Does that mean that they will penalize boosted XP cars with more ballast?

Hopefully they will steepen the displacement vs. minimum weight curve AND change the multiplier for boosted engines to 1.8 or 2.0 instead of the current 1.4. Those were the talking points at the Town Hall PAC meeting. In general, there seemed to be support for reducing minimum weights in XP and maybe in some of the other Prepared classes.