Welcome and big thanks to my newest sponsor, English Racing! ER is primarily (for me) an Evo shop, tuning my Evo & it’s ACD for an optimal autoxing setup. So while they don’t do anything directly for the Mini, they have been supporting me as a driver and in return I’d like to support them…
Decided to do a final event in the Evo, which turned out to be somewhat of a mistake. Had a hard time getting used to the car and plowed and plowed everywhere – I’ve got a wheel liner, undertray & lip to fix now during the offseason… oh well. I ran consistently in the 51.5’s…
First time trying out the CSCC in Columbus, IN and I must say it was a good time. From the videos I saw of the site I wasn’t sure how it was going to be. The lot is pretty broken up and will probably need repair soon, but it served it’s purpose. If it weren’t…
General Altimax RT43 195/65-15 (Corolla, 11/2014-current) Bought these to replace the old General Altimax tires I had on the Corolla before. While the tires perform decently, they do seem to have some sort of quality control issue or something. I’ve had several tire leak problems, none of which stemming from the tire actually having a…
Last points event of the year for St. Louis region SCCA Solo! Despite weather.com’s forecast of 0% of rain, it was misting/raining pretty good through parts of the day. However, more than anything, this turned out to be a blessing. I had Stlsolo’s #1 driver codrive the Mini with me, which once again gave me…
A lot of changes upcoming in the 2015 season for HS – mainly, the addition of several new competitors, such as the Fiesta ST, Honda Civic Si, CRX Si, etc. Full list of cars can be found here: http://www.solomatters.com/street_category_moves_for_2015 The basic idea is to revitalize HS it seems, despite our strong numbers at the 2014…
Up until about midnight the night before I had planned on bringing the evo to this event instead of the Mini, but given a host of factors – chance of rain, just changed all the fluids/wanted to drive it around and test for leaks, etc., I decided to take the Mini instead. It also means…
Was really hoping ZROD would be the one for me, but not tooo crazy about the wear here. The iron was a little higher and there was some tin that popped up that I wasn’t expecting. Starting to wonder at this point if the Mini motor likes lots of molybdenum… Despite that, decently happy with…
Now that I’ve had some time to digest nationals and the rest of the season, thought I’d jot down some notes about how Nationals went & moving forward. Where I am comparatively: 12th of 18 from Nationals 2/3rds through my first/second “real” season of autox, I’m still far off pace. http://sololive.scca.com/HS.html From my Nationals “Pregame,”…
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…
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