11-19-2007, 01:21 AM
the challenge was great fun, awesome course that had some nice technical combos, plus food/refreshments and a goody bag! it was on the "green" lot of turner field so plenty of space and good asphalt. we had about 10 N/A cars show up, and the rest were half and half WRX's and STi's.
i'm pretty happy with my placement all things considered. i came in 37/99 in raw and 26/99 in pax, and placed 3rd out of 4 in STS behind two very prepped/sponsored GC RS's from the carolinas. i think i was the fastest car on stock tires, although i'm not sure...but they were actually a terrific learning tool. it was really educational to learn the traction circle and heat management on a tire like that since they would grease up and upset the ABS so easily only a few hundred yards in. my alignment was helpful and kept them from rolling over too much. my worst run was a 58 second and my best was a 52.3! quite an improvement over 4 runs. my crowning moment of the day was during my third run, getting into a huge tank-slapper coming out of the slalom that's right in front of the pits/main viewing area. i slapped 3 times and finally skidded to a halt, sideways, in front of the crowd. doh! the car didn't give me any problems at all, all day.
some highlights were getting a ride-along in an r-comp'd D-stock WRX that was actually the defending national champ (need to verify but others were saying it's true), he was silly fast despite such a stock car. Subaru of America brought out an r-comp'd '08 hatch demo with some SPT parts, driven by a pro and it decimated almost everyone. there was also an 800 horse, heavily sponsored and caged STi running race gas+meth, 315 width r-comps and was smoking all 4 of them coming out of slow turns...i was course working during his runs and my only instinct was to run away when it came near me, it was just scary.
pics later
i'm pretty happy with my placement all things considered. i came in 37/99 in raw and 26/99 in pax, and placed 3rd out of 4 in STS behind two very prepped/sponsored GC RS's from the carolinas. i think i was the fastest car on stock tires, although i'm not sure...but they were actually a terrific learning tool. it was really educational to learn the traction circle and heat management on a tire like that since they would grease up and upset the ABS so easily only a few hundred yards in. my alignment was helpful and kept them from rolling over too much. my worst run was a 58 second and my best was a 52.3! quite an improvement over 4 runs. my crowning moment of the day was during my third run, getting into a huge tank-slapper coming out of the slalom that's right in front of the pits/main viewing area. i slapped 3 times and finally skidded to a halt, sideways, in front of the crowd. doh! the car didn't give me any problems at all, all day.
some highlights were getting a ride-along in an r-comp'd D-stock WRX that was actually the defending national champ (need to verify but others were saying it's true), he was silly fast despite such a stock car. Subaru of America brought out an r-comp'd '08 hatch demo with some SPT parts, driven by a pro and it decimated almost everyone. there was also an 800 horse, heavily sponsored and caged STi running race gas+meth, 315 width r-comps and was smoking all 4 of them coming out of slow turns...i was course working during his runs and my only instinct was to run away when it came near me, it was just scary.
pics later
2010 Civic Si
2019 4Runner TRD Off-Road
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Past: 03 Xterra SE 4x4 | 05 Impreza 2.5RS | 99.5 A4 Quattro 1.8T | 01 Accord EX | 90 Maxima GXE | 96 Explorer XLT
2019 4Runner TRD Off-Road
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Past: 03 Xterra SE 4x4 | 05 Impreza 2.5RS | 99.5 A4 Quattro 1.8T | 01 Accord EX | 90 Maxima GXE | 96 Explorer XLT