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Thanks to those who contributed to my contribution.
Thanks to NealB for showing me where to gain about 3 seconds on my next run.
Thanks to JimmyJan for a great course (don't tell him I said that).
Thanks to POS for letting me drive his $500 Miata - we're getting there.
The PIP is a camera mounted on the tow hook
My best clean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3VpaY37YlI
Stephen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=netb2A4rMjM
My 64.0 dirty on the tow hook camera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_vrRnPSO3M
I had a great time for my short visit. It was nice to meet a few of you. Thanks for the ride POS, that was scary for me, and Im a former motorcycle stunt rider. lol
My camera mounted between the baby teeth.
Backup link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NklurOdZTqs - if the embedded video doesn't show up.
SCCA event #6 Photos & Results:
photos - http://autoxmax.smugmug.com/Other/SC...87741283_Rg7LU
results - http://www.autocross.com/tr/modules/...dex.php?id=79/
Here is video from my fastest run in the Mugen. Photo's will be up as I have time in the next couple of days to upload it.
I really enjoyed this course. Very difficult for a nose heavy fwd car for sure. I just had to remember to slow down.
How do you make the map, speed, etc Thats awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by ken o
Thanks ken o for letting me run the M3 and also answering all my questions on doing track days. Amazing car and I had alot of fun. Should help me a bit going into nationals. I am really looking forward to it and I will see all you guys there.
Side note, I flew back to Wisconsin last night and grabbed the new Car and Driver. The cover story was the 7 best handling cars in America under $100k, of which I have autocrossed 4. Went something like this...
1. Porsche Boxter Spyder
2. Lotus Elise
3. Mazda Rx8 (thank you Iain)
4. BMW M3 (thank you Ken)
5. Nissan GT-R
6. Corvette z06 (thank you Mark)
7. VW GTI :D
Fun event with nice cool weather, only 96 deg. The course was fun and challenging, but I think it would have benefited from a few reward sections. Just about time it was getting fun, more pain. Maybe a few fast sweepers next time. :drive:;)
very politely putQuote:
Originally Posted by Robert
just about the time you got going, you had to stop, put on a turn signal, execute a painful turn, then chug off at too low revs in 2nd
jrj512, I appreciate what you do and don't want to do it myself, but other courses have been more fun to drive
Well putQuote:
Originally Posted by nealb
jrj has given us some very good courses this year. I've done a bunch of courses myself and understand the effort it takes to bring something new like jrj has done! That said, I would put this one farther down my list. Too many shut downs followed by long straights...chugging out? yep!
I hate you all!
No, really, thanks for the constructive feedback. I was trying something different and while I really liked it, the majority seem to not have liked it so much. But that is okay, since we have to try new things, and some will not work so well.
You do get kudo's for most cones ever used on one autocross course, so it wasn't a total failure! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by jrj512
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Originally Posted by GregW
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At least Clovis and NealB didn't follow me home and beat me up like Ken O did.Quote:
Originally Posted by sammm
Shut up everyone knows you pay extra to have Ken do that..... ::Daisy::Quote:
Originally Posted by jrj512
Personally, I really enjoyed the course. I thought it was one of the more technical courses we've seen this year. Those "painful" sections really test one's patience in terms of having to wait to get back on the power, as getting back on it too early would get you into trouble. Not necessarily the most fun elements, but they are definitely good things to practice. That being said, I think the course design really favored the higher horsepower cars.
Here’s my take on yesterday’s course:
- Straights – there were two relatively long straights on this course, one shortly after the start and one right before the finish. Nothing challenging about them at all. Got room for an offset gate or a 3-cone slalom?
- Slow corners before the straights – Both of these straights were preceded by very tight corners. Doing this gives higher horsepower, higher torque and AWD cars a significant speed advantage over the two most critical sections of the course.
- Painfully tight corners – There was no way to open up the last corner before the finish?
- Really offset cones – On the back section and preceding the last slalom there was at least one cone that was very far off of the middle line of the section. While I can appreciate that you’re trying to up the challenge factor with these elements, I think in both cases you could have moved these offset cones 20 feet closer in and still ended up with challenging sections, but ones that flowed a lot better.
That’s my $.02. I don’t think it was a bad course, just not one of his better efforts. Kudos to Jerrett for stepping up to design yet another one, and kudos for trying something different. In the long run it will only make you a better designer.
I think that some technical (painful) sections are good, they just need to be offset with some fun sections (reward). If you give the reward towards the finish people will leave felling good about the course.
I don't think it was a bad course it just lacked the yippee factor for me. I agree that jrj512 does a good job on the courses.
Agree with all of the comments, in that the course was very challenging. I'm not sure I would say it wasn't a good course, but Robert hit it on the head by saying it lacked a "yippee" factor. I finished my runs thinking the course won, not me. Still, I also realized how much I had been getting away with on some other courses this summer, and I didn't get fast on this one until i paid attention to the basics, like looking WAY ahead and being precise about when to brake and how much. Great job challenging us, Jarrett!
BTW - where can I get some samples of the sausage?
Great list, but there is no way the GTI (or Boxter, IMHO) belongs on that list ahead of the Miata. Not trying to discount those cars or be a homer, just saying.Quote:
1. Porsche Boxter Spyder
2. Lotus Elise
3. Mazda Rx8 (thank you Iain)
4. BMW M3 (thank you Ken)
5. Nissan GT-R
6. Corvette z06 (thank you Mark)
7. VW GTI :D
I agree on both points.Quote:
Originally Posted by nealb
Thanks to Jarret for making the course safe enough to avoid high speed collisions.
Also, as the others said thanks a bunch for trying something new. It was nice to run something totally new.
That wasn't me. It was all a dream.Quote:
Originally Posted by jrj512
Fastest dirty run.
Fastest clean run.
When I walked the course I thought it was going to be awful, but after driving it in the all-mighty Z06 (red ones really are faster) I loved it. I'm sure an abundance of torque helps a little here, but I'm a momemtum driver. That course was all about the line. Set up properly you could carry some serious speed through sections that I thought would be painfully slow.
Or.... maybe it was just the new Hoosiers....
Either way - there were things there that are very similar to what we'll see next week in Lincoln. Kudos for a national caliber course.
I will say that 9th in PAX with a cone has got to be one of my better days. I love the bus lot.
Ben Castillo looks like on of those drunk guys roaming around at a Jimmy Buffet concert....
http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/s...nCAstillo1.jpg
http://autoxmax.smugmug.com/Other/SC...87741283_Rg7LU
Here he's doing the in-car version of 'Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes' with Cone-Cerned
http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/s...nCAstillo2.jpg
http://autoxmax.smugmug.com/Other/SC...87740732_z4gNW
How often do you see two unrelated people from Nevada, Texas in one pic?Quote:
Originally Posted by Solo RX-7
From what I understand, this is a secret greeting between people from Nevada, Texas.Quote:
Originally Posted by jrj512
Kind of scary! ::Yikes::
HAHAHA!!! I love it! Greatest picture ever!Quote:
Originally Posted by Solo RX-7
I think yellow remains to be the fastest Z06 color...Quote:
Originally Posted by Solo RX-7
Hope you guys were not running your nationals tires out there...The bus lot in the summer time heat cycles the hell out of an A6!
Smoking fast runs this weekend! Run SS next time it's not like there is a shortage of competition.
See you guys in Lincoln!
I'm getting really excited about next week. If you look at the local SS times we should all be very close in Lincoln as long as the psychology of the big show doesn't get to us. Wouldn't a TX Region podium sweep be cool? Mark is on fire. I'm finally comfortable with the car. All of the local SS gang is hot right now. Bring it on, Lincoln!
This is the way it should be...
That would defiantly be cool! Unfortunately the Lotus and I are not where we need to be. I think we can still get up there somewhere in the trophies but it's gonna be an up hill battle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solo RX-7
I finally got the photos up that I took from heats 2 and some of heat 3. Link below the photos. For those that care there is only one photo of the blue car in the entire set. ;)
A couple of shots:
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...2010/Drift.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...0/IMG_1720.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...0/IMG_1903.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...0/IMG_2023.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...0/IMG_2028.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...0/IMG_2037.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...0/IMG_2141.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...0/IMG_2205.jpg
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