Had a great day in Champaign yesterday for the CCSCC event. Decided to start codriving with my old mentor from 2014 for both our benefit. He has a codriver he is taking to nationals, and I am in need of Mini competition/experience. From a raw time standpoint, things are very close between us, which is…
Got a few runs in at the novice school in the Mini and a few other cars @ the novice school. Had a rewarding time as usual, despite the 100+ degree weather. Started off teaching two students in the ’06 Mini Cooper S – the car was similar to other MCS’s I’ve driven, so I was…
Went to Spring Nats again – first time since 2014. In 2014, I was the only one in HS, as the two other HS cars opted to run in STF. I wasn’t interested then, so as the lone entry in HS I took home the prize. This year, the competition consisted of 4 Fiesta STs, 1…
Another event with my fastest run being my first. On hot days, this seems to be common with my setup, even on the old tires before, where the car cooperated decently on the first run, then fell off after. The car feels very different, and starts pushing more as the runs go on. I sprayed…
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…
Decided to take the Evo out today for the BSCC event, and turned out to be a good event for it. Course was a lot more open and favored big grip and big power, which the Evo has both of. Car is feeling pretty good where I have it, but the body roll up front…
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…
Got some new bushings installed by Solo Performance Specialties! These are the SuperPro DURO3741K bushings that go in the front control arm. These bushings are offset in order to allow for a caster increase. I got about 0.2-0.3 degrees of added caster with these bushings, but more importantly, they moved the wheel forward again. The caster…
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