ER #1 - Sunday, 02/25/07, Mineral Wells

[POS Racing]

Man what a fun event with a great course! The weather also settled down nicely for Sunday!

The fine folks at ER once again put on a great event!

It was good seeing you s out in Mineral Wells afer our winter break, even you Altiain!

[altiain]

Meh.

The course was fun, but we were fighting a lack of grip all day long. I think the ~100-run Kumhos from last August finally gave up the ghost. Jon cleaned house in B Stock today, outrunning every other Stock class car out there except for Clovis's Elise. You know you're running in a tough class when you're 11th in the overall PAX... but that's only good enough for fourth in your class!

In fact, all five of the drivers in B Stock finished in the top 15 in PAX yesterday. Maybe I should have stayed in C Stock.

[POS Racing]

Maybe I should have stayed in C Stock.

Nah we would have beat you also...... But at least you would have finished yesterday if ya had run CS.

[TheChadVIII]

Man the weather was soo nice, I walked away with a good ol' fashioned sunburn.

Mark kicked my ass in CSP! But then again I think I ended up second with some skinny 480 treadwear tires, haha.
My best run was a PAX one that I did screwing around with my headlights popped up, and thats the one my friend happened to record...

[jrj512]

I liked the track and I liked that ER stuck to the schedule in the morning. I also liked that it was my first class win!

However, the wheels on this Miata (pics) were a little tough to stomach. We might need an intervention.

(Is that The ChadVIII in the background of the first pic?)

[cone-cerned]

I almost had fun, also. The course was great, except for all those damn turns.

Maybe I should have stayed in GS. The OMS ( Stock) is going to be fun this year. The youngest driver in yesterday's ES class is 60 years old. And, two of the three drivers are fast.

[TheChadVIII]

Ahaha, yea thats me pretending I have bad eyesight with my bag-of-beef-jerky lunch. Too bad that spinner-miata never did some runs!

[jrj512]

Too bad that spinner-miata never did some runs!

He was co-driving the STS2 car in the background of the second pic.

[tailchaser]

Paging gerry93miata to the intervention room. Get those *#$*#$( spinnahs off the Miata. Oh well. At least he got rid of the automatic, right?

[jrj512]

Mark kicked my ass in CSP!

If you are running street tires, then you should get into TCSP next time.

[TheChadVIII]

Yea! I didn't know there was a tire class, and thats what John Garcia had told me in the beginning. (the yellow F1-lookin' racecar)
So I ran and asked if they could change my class after my first run, and they said I could, but I don't know if they did or not.
If they didn't then there were only 4 people running CSP so I still wound up in 2nd over a Civic Si and a Cobalt, whee!

[Billy Blaze]

Looked like fun to me, I will try and make the next one...in the Miata

[SpinOutF500]

Yea! I didn't know there was a tire class, and thats what John Garcia had told me in the beginning. (the yellow F1-lookin' racecar)
So I ran and asked if they could change my class after my first run, and they said I could, but I don't know if they did or not.
If they didn't then there were only 4 people running CSP so I still wound up in 2nd over a Civic Si and a Cobalt, whee!

At the event I was informed that you wanted to move from CSP to TCSP. I was going to do that at the end of the event, even made a note on the audit sheet, but I then forgot. I remembered it this morning and sent an email to Dennis, who is doing the final audit, about the note and change.

I do not know if Gerry saw it when he did his audit at the end of the event and before trophies, so he might have changed it.

The question now is, which class do you want to be in? What class do you see running the rest of the year? Points accummulated in one class cannot be transferred to another for Year End Points. There are usually more entrants in tire class, thus more and tighter competition.

Just let me know.

SpinOutF500
T/S assistant

[general default]

Results Posted

Seems like the PAX sure changed since the awards were given out. But I might be wrong.

[POS Racing]

Results Posted

Seems like the PAX sure changed since the awards were given out. But I might be wrong.

Yea they got the 88cs car mixed up with the 88bs car, figured it out after trophies, and I gave Gerry the 3rd place PAX back, I'd rather earn it then get because of a technical error.

But I'll take the 16th place finish in PAX and the Class win; not a bad day.

[altiain]

10th pays $15, right? I want my extra $5!

[Miatamoto]

10th pays $15, right? I want my extra $5!

Hey, how'd you BS guys get beat by a camber-challenged E36 M3??? That guy must be a pretty good driver.

[Darron65]

If only I could've counted my PAX runs in the tire class runs. I got a second and a half faster! (slow learner) Maybe next time I'll do my PAX runs first.

[sammm]

If only I could've counted my PAX runs in the tire class runs. I got a second and a half faster! (slow learner) Maybe next time I'll do my PAX runs first.

That's always the case...the R's are magical!

[altiain]

Hey, how'd you BS guys get beat by a camber-challenged E36 M3??? That guy must be a pretty good driver.

I'll give Cody some credit - he definitely drove well on Sunday. At the same time, he was also on brand new A6s (the rest of us were on Nationals leftovers from last season) and there were a few spots on course where having some torque to dig out of the hole was useful.

I expect you'll see a different picture once the rest of B Stock bites the bullet and buys new tires this season.