Concluded nationals on Friday! Had a terrible run on the East course. never got a great feel for it, just not well driven etc. The two drivers who should have beaten me on Thursday (coned their fastest runs) did so on Friday, putting me 12th of 18 drivers. Overall, I am satisfied with how I…
Not a whole lot to say after Day 1. The West course was tough IMO, and the harder I tried to push the slower my times ended up being, so my first run is my fastest, with a time of 65.180. I’m relatively far from catching anyone, and two people nipping at my heels with…
Since I wasn’t able to get this entire week off work, I’ve been stuck here at my desk watching the numbers slowly pop up on Solo Live. I figure with the data that I do have, from Spring Nationals and Nationals last year, I can run some numbers and get some kind of estimate of…
irst time with BSCC’s autox today at the newly (still in progress) paved Family Arena. Fairly satisfied with what they were able to put out, especially with the lot we had available to us. The main point of the event, and so soon from nationals, was to break in the the new RS3V2s. I am…
I’d been debating whether or not I’d want new tires, whether I’d want them before or after nats, what tires to get in general etc. – decided to just go for it and bought brand new Hankook RS3V2’s in 205/45-16. This setup is a good bit shorter than what I had been running with the…
Pretty much since Spring Nationals at Lincoln, I decided I would greatly benefit from tinting the windows. No limo tint or anything illegal, but enough to cool down the interior (black car, albeit white roof) & protect me from UV rays. The sun felt like it was 5 ft above me at Lincoln, and in…
These were purchased more as a stop-gap before I moved onto the Hankook RS3’s. Very impressed with these tires overall. The talk is that these tires required a lot of heat to be happy, which I found to be true. I kind of liked that about these tires, as opposed to the ZII’s. I can…
Had a nice little 2 week break from autox after I had been stressing out over it after the last event. I had hoped taking some time off from it would help clear my mind some, and get back into it with a little more motivation and driving wisdom possibly. While I don’t think it…
I think this was the first tire that was available in the now mandatory 200tw, which is why I went with them. The grip was pretty decent overall, but these tires heat cycled out before the tread wore down (part of why I elected to get ZIIss for the NB Miata), and I ended up…
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…
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