Stl Solo #5

Good event today. Course was an interpretation of the west course at Spring Nats 2014, albeit we were much more space limited. Gates etc were much narrower, thought it was definitely a good course and good interpretation. Not a great day for me overall. I think this was my first time racing at Stl on…

New Commuter Tires

In an effort to maintain it’s daily driver part of the equation, I’ve replaced the OEM Contipro Contact tires ahead of time. I’ve done this for several reasons – the biggest being that I wanted to stretch the gearing a little bit. I do a lot of highway driving between events, and not only will…

CCSCC 06212014

Tires. Are. Done. Decent course at CCSCC today, and like the first event of the year, I had D. Marx codrive the MINI with me. By the first run, we had determined that the tires are heat cycled out, which I guess is reasonable. I got a pretty sweet drift on them on the back…

Chi Solo 3

On to the main event! Sunday’s course in Chicago was long and technical, with special emphasis on getting line and placement of the car correct. While it is definitely good training, I never felt entirely comfortable on the course. On top of that, the dieselpower driver who beat me at the 2nd event was there,…

CCSCC Richland Community College Scholarship AX

Well, I wasn’t 100% sold on going to this event until a day or two beforehand, but given that it was more or less on the way to Joliet for chisolo #3, decided to give it a shot. As is typical of the RCC Scholarship AXs, there were very few drivers, 10 runs on a…

St Louis Solo #4

This has been a jam packed season so far! Tough course today, with some very tight sections. I worked registration as well as timing for the first time, and the cone calls were really up there. I was supposed to run during the 3rd heat, but due to a lack of people driving it was…