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…
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…
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…
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…
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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