Reply With QuoteMy driving sucked for the most part, but I always enjoy the road course. The back stretch was very fast!
Congrats to the trophy winners.
Mark52's car was great! As Ferris Bueller says, "It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up." Thank you very much for letting me co-drive the event, Mark.
My driving sucked for the most part, but I always enjoy the road course. The back stretch was very fast!
Congrats to the trophy winners.
Same here, except that I NEVER enjoy the Road Course, for some reason.Originally Posted by sammm
My driving sucked for the most part, but I always enjoy the road course. The back stretch was very fast!
Congrats to the trophy winners.
What's left of a '96 Miata with stock clutch.
My car exceeds my driving ability. That's the only possible explanation.
I had a lot of fun, but I always thought my first 4 wheel off would be at a track day. . .
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Same here. I'm sure glad that I was not in my car!
Sounds like a lot of people ended up in the grass yesterday.
Iain
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
My driving sucked for the most part, but I always enjoy the road course. The back stretch was very fast!
Congrats to the trophy winners.Me, too. Max says I topped out at 67 MPH on the back stretch.Same here,.
On the track, I am fearless.
If you were as slow as me, you wouldn't be afraid either.
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Not me!
I would like to know how fast I was going in the back stretch just as you crest the rise, I know it was just fast enought to scare me!
It was a fun day! I do enjoy the road course, but the Nascar wannabee kids gave me a pounding headache with their loud ass cars!
So about 36 mph in 2nd?Not me!
I would like to know how fast I was going in the back stretch just as you crest the rise, I know it was just fast enought to scare me!
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In Mark52's car, which has shorter gearing because of the wheels, I was shifting to third in the space between the two slaloms on the front stretch and then leaving it in third the rest of the course with no lack of RPM/power. It was a fast course.So about 36 mph in 2nd?
BTW, Mr. 2nd-to-5th-Shift-Mark admitted hitting 5th instead of third, but because of the NASCARs, we could not hear it, as we usually do.
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In Mark52's car, which has shorter gearing because of the wheels, I was shifting to third in the space between the two slaloms on the front stretch and then leaving it in third the rest of the course with no lack of RPM/power. It was a fast course.
BTW, Mr. 2nd-to-5th-Shift-Mark admitted hitting 5th instead of third, but because of the NASCARs, we could not hear it, as we usually do.
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STUPID TRANSMISSION!
What's left of a '96 Miata with stock clutch.
My car exceeds my driving ability. That's the only possible explanation.
Welcome to my world! That's exactly how it flowed for me too. In the 2nd heat, I watched a certain MR2 hit the rev limiter in 2nd, right at the end of that 2nd slalom. I thought we had similar gearing but since he was on R-comps I assumed I would be slower at that point.
The pucker point in the back stretch was right at the limiter in 3rd so that's 72 mph!
Last edited by Darron65; 09-29-2008 at 11:33 AM.
Those stupid other cars in Tire class would've have bumped you down anyway. I heard I was 3rd place but got no love when I waited for a trophy.
Stupid autocross.
Pics
Lots of pics here...
http://vorshlag.smugmug.com/gallery/...83100781_hiFDu - TMS event pictures. About 200 or so posted.
Great event, great weather, but we had all sorts of things go wrong on our cars. First Amy's E30 sprung a coolant leak while waiting in line to sign the 47 waivers at the front gate. A quick run to AutoZone and 20 minutes later it was back in business. Then the brake system problem that plagued our XP car at Nationals reared its ugly head again - I thought I had fixed it. Nope. So I tip toed around the course barely breathing on the brakes - I think I managed a 52.0 but I didn't verify cones. That was with it losing fuel pressure badly, too. By my 4th run the fuel pump was officially dying so I had to abort the run.
A long day, and a longer list of repairs, but still a great event!
Took a bunch from this angle: http://vorshlag.smugmug.com/gallery/...83179918_zwaUm
Classic Foley "ridin dirty" post: http://vorshlag.smugmug.com/gallery/...83137472_xEHC4
This cone took forever to fall: http://vorshlag.smugmug.com/gallery/...83209370_jT523
She runs over the bases of these things and gives me a heart attack! http://vorshlag.smugmug.com/gallery/...83217383_hodde
As usual, feel free to copy/repost. Full size images are uploaded and just one click away.
Cheers,
Terry Fair - [email protected]
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LOL, see if you can find a miata!
SA
Last edited by SixAce; 09-29-2008 at 07:08 PM.
Software issues finally were resolved & results for event #7 have been posted:
http://www.autocross.com/tr/modules/...ndex.php?id=50
My fourth and fastest run is missing from the results. Doesn't matter anyway I Electroluxed all day. Found out later I had a drywall screw in my RR tire and was loosing air bigtime.
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Is your fastest run time in the right hand column?
Looks like this happened to several times. Don't ya just love technology??
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