Hmmm, bacon ... on a muffin? Should I stuff this in Ken O's tailpipe?
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IMG_1146 by Michael Schaefer, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Hmmm, bacon ... on a muffin? Should I stuff this in Ken O's tailpipe?
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IMG_1146 by Michael Schaefer, on Flickr[/IMG]
Can't really complain about the weather since it is January.
Plus, POS Racing, we had pancakes in the shape of cupcakes with maple icing and real bacon bits.
We had a great time.
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Originally Posted by jrj512
Looks best in 1080p:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kri_Kh1s81g
Good shots, strathound. Let me know if you have anything else of the silver S2000 with orange numbers (apparently I had 75 on one side and 57 on the other most if the day...)
That was a fun event! The weather added a challenge, the courses were great - I loved the afternoon course - and plenty of good, fast competition! Good times.
A few of us were talking yesterday - would there be any.interest in forming an STR/X Pro sub-class for the regular season? Most of us STR regulars are already comparing to each other anyway. We could make some exceptions for cars that aren't technically STR legal, but are in the same spirit (gernby, miatamoto). What do you guys think?
It was deff a blast... I wish I could have been in my car but stuff happens sometimes�� but I always enjoy driving armstorngs s2000.. I just wish he did not have to work yesterday so we could have stayed for the afternoon runs... I actually liked not having a chance to walk the course at all and just race it by looking at the map. It added a little more excitement on what's at the next corner!!! Wow that was fun
One of the beauties of our classing is that there is no arguing over mods, so I do not want to create a class only for STR-legal(ish) cars because then you have bickering. However, I do not mind creating a Pro class where anything is legal. Maybe make Pro and RPro (R-comps). You can then just compare yourselves to the pertinent cars in the class.Quote:
Originally Posted by altiain
I'm sure you saw these two already:Quote:
Originally Posted by altiain
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8076/8...8286fe68a1.jpg
IMG_0931 by Michael Schaefer, on Flickr
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8093/8...e6c7e0deff.jpg
IMG_0937 by Michael Schaefer, on Flickr
I have a couple other decent shots. I'll process them and upload here in a bit.
What's the difference between STR and STR/X Pro? I'm thinking of building out my car for STR over the course of this year. Won't be competitive for a few years. But that's the direction I'm headed with mine.
Michael
Here are three more I found:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8226/8...a2ee4919ca.jpg
IMG_1145 by Michael Schaefer, on Flickr
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8212/8...120bf5e32d.jpg
IMG_0942 by Michael Schaefer, on Flickr
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8230/8...cb07d948e8.jpg
IMG_0939 by Michael Schaefer, on Flickr
Do you have any pictures of the white s2000 (1 or 199)?
Here are my best runs for the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpB7cMidBW8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phwGa9HWb5s
Here are the external views from Ken's GoPro and datalogger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAVx9Xcxr5A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzZ-LIN_9aY
Sorry, I was working during your group.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gernby
Thanks for the pics strathond!
Congrats to slowchildmiata for getting FTD. :drive: Enjoy your addiction to the purple crack!
Kudos to JJ for the killer courses and the great competition. Everybody has really stepped it up in the Miata crowd. Hopefully I'll make the next event.
Fun event, afternoon in the mostly dry course was much more fun. The site is nice, plus it has indoor plumbing. Looking forward to the next event. Gotta love the class 1 competition.
Or maybe all of you could just play in Class 2 together.Quote:
Originally Posted by jrj512
I like the Pro and ProR idea. Folks can always do their own pax math, but I'd like to run head to head with the other hardcore drivers. Also, spreading out the drivers in more classes makes heat balancing easier.
I would enjoy a class where the STR-ish cars could compete together, but I would hate what it might do to the s2000 class or overall s2000 participation.Quote:
Originally Posted by altiain
I don't see why an S2K driver would decide not to attend based on this, or why it would hurt anything other than feelings if the S2K class was smaller. The club wins when NTAXS is successful. Attracting even more national-caliber drivers brings positive attention to the series. Of course, if out ain't broke, don't fix it... ;)
Also, the mostly-stock S2Ks might enjoy being competitive if the highly nodded cars were playing in pro.
I like the idea of Pro / Pro-R classes too, and would participate in one of them. I just wonder if that would eventually result in the S2000 class going away. It seems to me that many of the S2000 participants come for the social aspect of an S2000 gathering moreso than the competition. If several of the S2000's wind up moving to a Pro / Pro-R class, then there's a good chance that the S2000's would be split up into different run groups, which screws up the social aspect for some.
Again, I like the idea, and I realize that the S2000 class isn't as well attended as it used to be, but I think it's worth considering what the ripple effects could be.
I almost forgot to ask if anyone has the shoulder bag and air tank that I left in the parking lot. The air tank is red, and the shoulder bag is navy blue. The bag contains some white car numbers, a rain suit, the wind screen from my S2000, and a box of Trojan Ribbed Ultra-Lubricated Rough Riders (Extra Large).
Yes, I have them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gernby
Oh great! Those extra larges are really hard to find!Quote:
Originally Posted by jrj512
#91 Red Volkswagen GTI? Other pics look good.Quote:
Originally Posted by strathound
Fun event. It's always a good time when I make my periodic trips out to a NTAXS event.
Sorry... Too busy snorting lines of tire dust.Quote:
Originally Posted by Miatamoto
I'm just happy the car made it through the day.
I like this idea as well. I would definitely be interested in a Pro/ProR pair of classes.Quote:
Originally Posted by OZMDD
Thanks for posting!Quote:
Originally Posted by strathound
STR is one if the SCCA's Street Touring classes it happens to be where the NB, NC, and S2000 are classed, and it's a very popular class. Several of the cars out yesterday were STR cars, including mine.
X Pro is a sub class you find at several other local events (SCCA and Equipped Rapide) that allows "pros" to run heads up against each other. At SCCA and ER those cars are indexed against one another using a modifier (PAX index). What we're discussing is having a pair of heads up Pro classes at future NTAXS events to let the local STR and similar cars run against each other. We might even let Ken join, if he brings cookies.
Results posted at http://www.s2000.org/nts2koc/autox/results.shtml.
Ahh, gotcha. Yeah, I'm no where near ready for that class. But I'll be rooting for you guys. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by altiain
Here's the only one I've got. I took this picture while you were parked in the paddock because I wanted to remember your number when the results came out. I had a personal goal to try and beat your times. I was unsuccessful, lol. Nice job.Quote:
Originally Posted by cleave
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8233/8...01de784345.jpg
IMG_1158 by Michael Schaefer, on Flickr
Michael
Thanks! Good 'nuff. I haven't taken any pics other than with my phone at night when I bought it.Quote:
Originally Posted by strathound
And, you did beat me in the morning course!
I see you copyright your images. Can I use this for facebook, avatars, selling prints to make millions, etc?Quote:
Originally Posted by strathound
Quote:
Originally Posted by cleave
They should be set as public on Flickr. I went ahead and logged out of Flickr to try to see what you are seeing. And there was no option to download on the first page you go to to view the picture on Flickr. However, on Flickr, when I clicked the Actions drop down, there is an option for "View All Sizes." Click that. Then on the next page, you will see an option to:Download the Large 1024 size of this photo
Hopefully that will let you download the file. Until I get better at taking these shots, I'm sharing all of my photos without a copyright. Feel free to use them however you want. At some point, I hope to be good enough to have a gallery of my photos in which case I'll probably watermark them. But they will be free to use by the driver of the car as far as I'm concerned. You're the talent, I'm just converting light rays to pixels. :)
MS
Yeah, I saw that. And I came out in the afternoon with the intent of putting the hammer down and increasing my lead. Instead, I learned a valuable lesson about walking the course and learning the course before trying to go fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by cleave
I personally found the afternoon course way more challenging than the morning course. In the morning, we had several increasing radius turns that allowed me some margin for error as I was powering on. In reverse, many of those were just the opposite, deceasing radius turns. My nemesis in the afternoon was the big 180 after the slalom course. For some reason, I could not remember that there was a chicane after the exit of that turn. So I would power on too early and then have to lock it up at the chicane. Once, this caused me to spin out of control and stall the car, coming in with a horrible 74. I could not get in a rhythm in the afternoon, and I lost in the combined times.
Still, what a blast. I think totally stock, our two cars are a pretty even match. I enjoyed the competition. Look forward to doing it again.
MS
Looking ahead would help quite a lot in the section after the slalom/180 in the PM course.Quote:
Originally Posted by strathound
Yeah, for some reason on that corner exit, I was definitely having some tunnel vision or was seeing what I wanted to see on the course. The cones started to blur together. Basically, it felt like I should be getting on the gas but I was looking past that one friggin' cone towards the next 180, wanting to get my speed up before the next big turn. At the last second, I would see that cone and curse and slam the brakes and try to heave the car back to the left to make the turn. It was never pretty. The only time I didn't do that was the last run when I forced myself to remember that cone. But then I drove way too conservatively and lost a lot of time. Live and learn.Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmosMpower
For comparison. You can see the differences if you start the videos at just the right time. Kind of interesting to see where each of us lost and gained time to each other. Looks like I screwed up the last 1/4 of the course, Nathan beat me out of the last 180 sweeper to the first slalom cone. I think we were .4 apart in the AM.Quote:
Originally Posted by slowchildmiata
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNzdG49OykQ
My best PM Run, #3. No AM runs; had the gopro in the photo mode. Duh...
http://youtu.be/SjsqZbx8s5Q
Edit - after watching this, I almost want to delete it. Sooooo many places where I am late on the gas or pinching off turns with bad entry placement. Yuck.