ER Challenge Cup #8 - Pennington Field - Sunday 10/14/07

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10-08-2007, 07:40 AM
jrj512

ER Challenge Cup #8 - Pennington Field - Sunday 10/14/07

Anyone else joining me there?

http://www.autocross.com/er/equiperapide/modules/news/

No pre-reg.
10-08-2007, 07:41 AM
cone-cerned

I'm in.
10-08-2007, 09:12 AM
altiain

Yay. Pennington.
10-08-2007, 09:31 AM
ken o

Yep. Mini Cooper S.
10-08-2007, 10:34 AM
jrj512

Quote:

Originally Posted by ken o

Yep. Mini Cooper S.

Cool, you got it!

Will you still be in Tire or did you get R comps? I would like to finish our fight for the Tire Class. Crap, doesn't the Cooper S have some kind of great PAX?

Is the Porsche gone?
10-08-2007, 11:15 AM
Darron65

Yep.
10-08-2007, 02:56 PM
wrx74

I'll be there...
10-08-2007, 04:19 PM
CosmosMpower

In the air, if I can get a co-drive at PCA I won't be there. Otherwise see you guys there.
10-08-2007, 04:50 PM
Brad

I will be there, my first Pennington event. Looks like Lee will be joining us as well. I may come to the BMW event on Saturday, all depends on when the sway bar gets here.
10-08-2007, 04:53 PM
MadMonkey

Previous engagement :rolleyes:

Otherwise, you know I'd be there. :(
10-08-2007, 07:10 PM
ken o

Quote:

Originally Posted by jrj512

Cool, you got it!

Will you still be in Tire or did you get R comps? I would like to finish our fight for the Tire Class. Crap, doesn't the Cooper S have some kind of great PAX?

Is the Porsche gone?

911 is gone.

PAX is .803.

I picked up a set of 16" for the track. I mounted RE01-R on them. Great deal going on at TireRack. Al at Discount Tires matched the price. I will be running 17" A6's next year. Got to get me some of that PAX money.

First impressions: FWD is going to be hard to master. The wheel is all jerky and wants to pull. Have not run it hard yet as it only has 173 miles on it.

Got it stripped with LSD. Wow that sounds odd. You old dudes know all about LSD and stripping.
10-08-2007, 07:55 PM
jrj512

Quote:

Originally Posted by ken o

Got it stripped with LSD. Wow that sounds odd. You old dudes know all about LSD and stripping.

OneThing?
10-08-2007, 07:58 PM
sammm

Quote:

Originally Posted by ken o

You old dudes know all about LSD and stripping.

That's tripping. Damn kids, get off my yard! :shaking2:
10-08-2007, 07:59 PM
channelmaniac

Come on... I don't need THAT visual after dinner...

:puker:
10-09-2007, 06:24 PM
ratt_finkel

Quote:

Originally Posted by jrj512

. Crap, doesn't the Cooper S have some kind of great PAX?

Not exactly, GS in 04 was soft and 05 was less soft. 06 got tougher and now the pax is appropriate for the speed of the class (car).

Quote:

Originally Posted by altiain

Yay. Pennington.

I'm with Iain, blah to Pennington.
10-09-2007, 06:29 PM
cam76034

Strippings for girls.
10-09-2007, 08:50 PM
MadMonkey

Maybe I'll be sick on Sunday so I can make it out there ;)
10-12-2007, 07:50 AM
POS Racing

Quote:

Originally Posted by altiain

Yay. Pennington.

Ya forgot the following smile -> :rolleyes: !

I'm in, are we going to dine at Einsteins??
10-12-2007, 08:13 AM
jrj512

Quote:

Originally Posted by POS Racing

I'm in, are we going to dine at Einsteins??

I won't be able to make breakfast, but I will see you at Pennington.
10-12-2007, 08:24 AM
POS Racing

Quote:

Originally Posted by jrj512

I won't be able to make breakfast, but I will see you at Pennington.

Wha?? ::Spit::

But, breakfast is the most importaint meal of the day! ;)
10-12-2007, 08:26 AM
Miatamoto

Quote:

Originally Posted by POS Racing

Wha?? ::Spit::

But, breakfast is the most importaint meal of the day! ;)

I'm sure he'll be busy redesigning the course to not suit small FWD, turbo cars that start with a "M" and end in "ini".
10-12-2007, 08:37 AM
cone-cerned

Quote:

Originally Posted by POS Racing

But, breakfast is the most importaint meal of the day! ;)

I'll be there.
10-12-2007, 09:04 AM
jrj512

Quote:

Originally Posted by POS Racing

Wha?? ::Spit::

But, breakfast is the most importaint meal of the day! ;)

::Whisp:: Bottom of the first page: http://autocross.com/er/InformER10_07.pdf
10-12-2007, 09:17 AM
Titus

Quote:

Originally Posted by jrj512

::Whisp:: Bottom of the first page: http://autocross.com/er/InformER10_07.pdf

So they make you event master and now you are Mr. Big Shot who is to good to have breakfast with your "friends"? Wow. Next thing you know, you'll be ditching Ms Squeaky for a Playboy bunny. :rolleyes:
10-12-2007, 09:19 AM
altiain

Crap, is jrj512 designing the course? I'd better make sure the clutch is bled, since we'll be going to 1st gear a few times... :wink:
10-12-2007, 09:55 AM
jrj512

Quote:

Originally Posted by Titus

So they make you event master and now you are Mr. Big Shot who is to good to have breakfast with your "friends"? Wow. Next thing you know, you'll be ditching Ms Squeaky for a Playboy bunny. :rolleyes:

Yes, the Event Master gets to dine at a fancy brunch with the other ER big wigs. No McDonalds for me.

Actually, I have to setup the course.
10-12-2007, 10:16 AM
Prova7

Quote:

Originally Posted by altiain

Crap, is jrj512 designing the course? I'd better make sure the clutch is bled, since we'll be going to 1st gear a few times... :wink:

I've always looked at the route of the course as more of a recommendation. We can always feel free to skip the parts of it we don't like. ;)
10-12-2007, 12:13 PM
CosmosMpower

I would like 3 crossovers with 2 oval shaped skidpads and a figure 8 please. Preferrably 1 car on course every 3-5 minutes...so pretty much a normal ER event ;)
10-12-2007, 12:23 PM
Titus

Quote:

Originally Posted by CosmosMpower

I would like 3 crossovers with 2 oval shaped skidpads and a figure 8 please. Preferrably 1 car on course every 3-5 minutes...so pretty much a normal ER event ;)

Yeah... And can we please get a box filled with a pile of gravel?
10-12-2007, 12:27 PM
sammm

I heard his surprise element is a figure-8 slalom. ::StirTheP
10-12-2007, 12:43 PM
TurboDuane

I'm trying to talk my son into this one. I was going to put a motor back together for a nephew's F-150, but he can wait another week. :burnrubr:
10-13-2007, 08:50 PM
MadMonkey

Quote:

Originally Posted by POS Racing

I'm in, are we going to dine at Einsteins??

Yo, where's Einstein's and what time will you guys be there? I still don't know if I'll make it, but I'll know by... 7AM I guess. lol. ;)
10-13-2007, 08:52 PM
Brad

Einsteins is across from Pennington I am told. C Ya tomorrow.
10-13-2007, 09:15 PM
cone-cerned

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brad

Einsteins is across from Pennington I am told. C Ya tomorrow.

7 am. Einsteins is on the east side of Central Drive, across from Pennington Field.

Look for the gaggle of Miatas.
10-14-2007, 04:21 PM
general default

Well that course took some skills and patience. I think the hardest part was the finish offsets. I sure would like to have tired it a couple of more times.

Looking forward to the ER double header weekend November 10&11. I think that is my favorite event of the year. :D
10-14-2007, 04:39 PM
MadMonkey

Quote:

Originally Posted by general default

Well that course took some skills and patience. I think the hardest part was the finish offsets.

Agree with you there! Very technical course... what really sucks is that on my two otherwise-perfect runs, I had 1 miserable screwup that cost me a really good time... first one was embarrassing understeer that nearly took me off the course ;)

Oh well. Managed to eke out a 52.007, which I was pretty happy with.
10-14-2007, 05:13 PM
jrj512

Quote:

Originally Posted by general default

I think the hardest part was the finish offsets.

I think that was my favorite part.

It was great to hear many good reviews about the course. I was a apprehensive about the changes that might be requiredby ER, but working with Piper was great and he was as interested in trying to introduce the elements I was wanting. I would strongly suggest that everyone give this a try sometime. I only regret missing breakfast, as it is usually a good time.

It was a good day.
10-15-2007, 07:31 AM
general default

Results Posted ::Flag::
10-15-2007, 07:37 AM
Miatamoto

Quote:

Originally Posted by general default

Results Posted ::Flag::

Yo general, looking at the results... does the bass boat push too much with the big bar on the concrete???
10-15-2007, 07:57 AM
altiain

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miatamoto

Yo general, looking at the results... does the bass boat push too much with the big bar on the concrete???

No, the bass boat's owner had a cranial-rectal inversion that made looking ahead difficult. :mrgreen:

Foley and I ran 1st heat, while Jon and Kenny ran 2nd heat (although Kenny ran 1st heat in the afternoon), so Jon had the opportunity to see everyone else's times long before he took his last competition run. He did what he usually does in that case, which is drive just fast enough to win.

If you look at the Pax times, Jeremy was the fastest of the four of us, and he coned away a raw time that was more than half a second faster than anything else in B Stock. He also had missed shifts on two of his fastest clean runs. Yeah, raw times don't win races, but that's proof that the car's setup wasn't the problem this weekend.

As for me, I drove like crap. Whatcha gonna do? :shrug:

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