Had my first Chicago event of 2016 – haven’t been out here since mid 2014 so I was eager to see how I would do. There were a few targets I couldn’t catch back then – mainly, a turbo diesel VW – the driver of that car had switched to a Fiesta ST, staying in…
Got a brief glimpse of improvement at CCSCC today – definitely some Mini favorable elements, but one of the runs felt really good – unfortunately, I drained my camera and wasn’t able to record my fast run. The only time I recorded was my 5th run, which was about a second slower than my fastest,…
Without the Civic there, an easy win for the Mini in HS. With that, I just need 4 more wins to win the class, out of the next 7. Not sure if it’ll be doable, we’ll see soon. Frustratingly, was unable to beat my 1st run today, by a pretty wide margin. I had difficult…
Mini: 2nd Event in the books. Cutting right to the chase, I lost to the Civic Si by 0.516s. I was chasing him most of the event, and at one point he figured something out and dropped ~0.7s and from there on out it was game over. I pushed as hard as I could, tried…
After missing the first two events (3/19 Rantoul, 3/20 GAX) due to disappointing weather, I was able to get out on Sunday to the first StlSolo event for the first event of 2016! The two main goals of this event were to (1) try out the RE71Rs and (2) shake off the rust. While I got a…
A relatively busy off-season for the Evo – following the issues I had with the balance of the car last year, I had a few changes I wanted to make before going with more mods. Also had a number of maintenance to do with the car: Reversed the rake of the car (higher in front, lower…
Continental TrueContact 185/65-15 (Mini, 11/2015-current): Initial impressions of this tire are very good. Main purpose was to use as a daily cruiser and highway tire for trips. This will play especially key in next year, as the RE71Rs truly disintegrate it seems. They are much narrower than what I’ve been running, so there is a…
I leveled up. That’s the only way I can really describe my performance from the last event, and now this one. If only this weren’t all happening after all the points events had finished. Squashing any concerns that the last event (technically two courses) was a fluke, I had yet another best-ever performance. I actually…
Slow in getting this out – had our annual year end fun event for Stl Solo – decided to put an interesting spin on things this year – we’d run the course forwards in the morning, then backwards in the afternoon! Per the “fun” event, we’d measure by our 2nd run – no matter how…
Another day trip to one of CCSCC’s events in Rantoul: Course was actually one of my favorites thus far this season save for a couple elements. I was able to wide open all the way through the first stretch down the course, but it wasn’t until the last run that I tried going into third…
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