Civic of Doom: Honda Challenge Recycling

[Kaan]

Better late than never… pictures will come later I guess…

I took a passenger out to give me some pointers… Edgar made some adjustments to how I take T3, had me quicken some stuff up the esses, had some pointers for T10… and a BUNCH of other stuff. I went out in the race and applied the T3/Esses/T10 combo and hit a personal best of 2:16.5

Sunday the rain hits and I start working my way from the back of the pack in Beast of the East… I was headed to grid and we had to wait for a busted E30 to make a 30 point turn… they gave the 3 minute call while I was waiting in line. I should have just truly started in the back and started from pit out… but I didn’t. I started 41st and got up to 25th in 1 lap before my ECU went into limp mode.

Before the afternoon race I reloaded the map with some help of the HC fam… I was good to go… but my starter (yes the new one) was making noises (yay life time warranty).

It was dry and I was starting from the back of the HC field. The rain had washed away some grip and it made me pay. After a pass on Hunter (accord wagon) in southbend I started gapping him and started closing on Zach and Marcus… Marcus lost 4th gear on the back straight away, so I was chasing Zach with Hunter behind me…. I enter turn one trying to hit my marks from the 2:16.5 lap and flat spotted the crap out of my front passenger tire and went to visit the grass in T1.

With my off, Zach was gone and Hunter was around me… I drove the car through the mud and entered safely. Two laps later I was back on Hunters bumper…. But I couldn’t brake normally for T1 or oak tree without the front passenger tire locking up. I tired to creep a pass under braking in T1 anyway and went off to mow the grass again…. Hunter flies by. It took all I had to pedal the car through the mud again and catch Hunter… on the last lap I hosed oak tree (because of braking issues) and couldn’t catch him.

Good news… I pulled a 2:16.5 in the race with flat spotted tires… is it march yet? I need to get into the 2:15s. I was also the only driver in HC to pull the same times both Saturday and Sunday… everyone else was slower on Sunday. I’ll take the little wins.

Summit Point prep includes a new splitter, swapping tires out, new rotors, a new rain light (having a removable trunk has me ripping out wires), etc. This winter is going to be rough… I need to find a 96-00 coupe roof to put on the car ASAP.