Very, very tough course today. When people are struggling to get clean runs on the board, usually a sign that it’s a bad course. Apparently the course was opened up and vastly improved from yesterday, which was surprising. Course was not friendly for cars set up for larger, more open courses. With 2-3 turn arounds,…
Unfortunately no video this event due to forgetting the camera in the morning! Course was extremely fast, I was at the top of 2nd for more than a few seconds. on the front down stretch of the course. I had been shifting into 3rd, but ultimately ran faster staying in 2nd, dropping about 0.7s immediately,…
Drove a friends modified Civic hatch today – roughly 240hp out of a K24, stripped rear interior + cage & coilovers with 225 r-comps. The car was difficult to drive with no power steering or ABS, locking up the front wheels on more than one occasion. Car seemed to turn better being on the throttle…
Very hot & delayed event. Was hoping to make it to Boeing after running first heat with Stl Solo, but delays with the bus meant they didnt start setting up the course until after 730am, and first car off around 11:15.. Did pretty poorly until my last run. Things felt like they clicked better and…
About a month since my last full event: had not been too satisfied with the evo’s braking performance, and theorized part of this could be due to rev hang. If the car’s revs are hanging instead of dropping, at the very least I lose the assistance of engine braking and at worst the car’s rev…
Gained a decent amount of time in my runs by holding throttle longer & braking shorter & harder – too much and the car will push. Left a lot of distance from carrying too much speed again. Need to keep the lines tighter, pull back & tidier. Maybe not necessarily pull back, but all turns are LATE! Left some…
Second event of the year for the Mini in near record-like rainfall. Luckily, the Mini does, very, very well in the wet. No one else can really put power down so they slow down a good bit, and it impacts the Mini hardly any. The car is also set up a little too pushy for…
First CCSCC of the year – not a huge fan of the course, it felt cramped & unnecessarily tight, but I did what I could in the Evo. Started a really great 4th run before getting red flagged, and I couldn’t pick it up after that. Did decently (4th raw, 9th index, 9,630pp) but I…
Second event on the Evo’s new setup. Encountered some push after tires got hot, but not too bad, and was mitigated by setting the ACD to gravel. A lot to try – I may set the rear bar to the stiffest setting and/or pull back rear toe. For now, I think I will leave it…
Kicking off the first event of the year! Got some decent weather for the Gateway Autocross event, though the lot was cold & dirty, as would be expected for the first event. Pretty exhausted for the event, got in late the night prior from a 3+ day MBA orientation. Everything felt about the same with…
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