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Don't forget your work assignement can be affected by where you end up in line for registration. ::GottaRunQuote:
Originally Posted by altiain
ER has slightly tweaked the timing for this years events.Quote:
Originally Posted by "cut & Paste" from the latest ER Newsletter
Do you have a four point rollbar? If you do not, you will not be allowed to use the shoulder belts of the harness you installed for safety reasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheChadVIII
Blech, really? I have them mounted on the oem cockpit brace. The stock seatbelts are still functional at least.Quote:
Originally Posted by altiain
Yeah, really.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheChadVIII
Just think about it - if you have no rollbar and you're strapped upright in the seat by a four point harness, what does the car land on if you flip it? The windshield header and your head. :punchout:
FYI, you won't be able to use those shoulder belts at any autocross or track day without a four point roll bar, for the reason stated above.
Not only that, if you had a style bar and hooked the harness to it, what would happen when that style bar gets bent backwards during a rollover?Quote:
Originally Posted by altiain
That's why four point roll bars are required if you want to use the harness.
So, if my car rolls over, and I don't have a rollbar, the regular seatbelts are safer than a harness?
I'm not arguing about the rules, I know ya'll are right. I'm just failing to see all the logic behind it since the last ER autox I was at they let me run with the top down and no rollbar. So it'd seem like I'd land on my head either way if I flipped it with stock seatbelts or the harness.
When you roll, you will usually fall inward toward the center of the car. If not before your head hits the pavement, soon after. If both shoulders are strapped back, you stay pinned upright as your head grinds off like a pencil eraser held against a belt sander. ;)
And that is straight out of the Safety Manual :clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by Titus
And remember folks, Speed Kills.Quote:
Originally Posted by onething
So does Cheese.Quote:
Originally Posted by Titus
Cheesecake?Quote:
Originally Posted by tailchaser
Where is the little lederhosen clad beeyotch? :cat:Quote:
Originally Posted by Titus
Only if you spill his beer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Titus
No doubt.Quote:
Originally Posted by tailchaser
http://harriettstomato.typepad.com/f...cecheese_7.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by tailchaser
Mmmmmm.... Cheese....
I prefer Nips... erh, I mean Cheese Nips.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave04
I like em both.
Honestly, if you're going to drive all the way out to Mineral Wells you might as well just enter the event. Watching an autocross is like going to a strip club, all the excitement, and none of the action.Quote:
Originally Posted by MiataMike
Also, what way are you guys taking to get there? It's never taken me anymore than 1.5 hours to get there.
Two short cuts are this.
From the Northern 35 area
Take 121 west from 35, follow 121 till you hit 183, follow that towards fortworh, make a LEFT at 820, which you'll still technicall be on 121. Follow 121 towards downtown ftw. It forks 3 ways, I-10 towards the right, 121 in the middle, and 820 on the left. Obviously stay in the middle. Take that all the way to downtown forworth and jump on 35W heading south. Follow that for about half a mile to I-30 West, and take that all the way to exit 416. Or the D.P.S. Road, which ever you prefer, I'm not sure which is faster. I've tried both and it ends up about the same.
Or you can take george bush(161) to 183 and then take that to ftw.
Both ways shave off a lot of time. Plus you can usually haul ass. Unless you're living in McKinney it shoud take you no less than 1.5 hours. And if you live out in North Plano or McKinney, move out of the sticks!
How about from East Jesus where your benefactor lives? You might want to pay attention before telling people not to live in the sticks ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ratt_finkel
OTOH I did move to town from Athens a few years ago. :rolleyes:
I may drive out there and see you guys, on my bike :(
The band is disolving in a couple of months but we are honoring our last shows then I am free on the weekends again just in time for some Autocross.
I am really looking forward to it.
I have to replace my stinkin belts though and couple other minor maint. things but other than that it should sound waaayyy different than last time you guys heard it....lol
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! ::Flag::
It was good seeing you ::Clown::s out in Mineral Wells afer our winter break, even you 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! :shock:
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. :punchout:
Nah we would have beat you also...... ;) But at least you would have finished :3Place: yesterday if ya had run CS.Quote:
Originally Posted by altiain
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...
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! ::Flag:: ::Banana::
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?)
I almost had fun, also.::Clown:: The course was great, except for all those damn turns.
Maybe I should have stayed in GS. The OMS (::OldMan:: 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.:D
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!
He was co-driving the STS2 car in the background of the second pic.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheChadVIII
Paging gerry93miata to the intervention room. Get those *#$*#$( spinnahs off the Miata. Oh well. At least he got rid of the automatic, right?
If you are running street tires, then you should get into TCSP next time.Quote:
Originally Posted by 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!
Looked like fun to me, I will try and make the next one...in the Miata;)
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheChadVIII
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
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 ::2Dollar: back, I'd rather earn it then get because of a technical error. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by general default
But I'll take the 16th place finish in PAX and the Class win; not a bad day. ::Banana::
10th pays $15, right? I want my extra $5! ::Bleh::
Hey, how'd you BS guys get beat by a camber-challenged E36 M3??? That guy must be a pretty good driver.Quote:
Originally Posted by altiain
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 ::Bean:: R's are magical!Quote:
Originally Posted by Darron65
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Miatamoto
I expect you'll see a different picture once the rest of B Stock bites the bullet and buys new tires this season.