April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

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April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby Loren » Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:21 pm

Ready for another one? Registration for the next FAST Championship event is open!

Full details and registration here:
http://msreg.com/FAST-Champ-12Apr2015

Share that link with all of your friends on other forums and everywhere else! Be sure to tell them what you already know: that FAST Championship events are the most novice-friendly events around, and a great place to get started autocrossing.

To put it another way: This event is open to all licensed drivers, and we love noobs! :thumbwink:
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby Native » Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:48 pm

Noobs! Noobs! Noobs!
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby AScoda » Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:53 pm

I usually spell it with a 'B'
Loren wrote:Freakin' Drew and his freakin' Mustang. :no:
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby shakedown067 » Thu Mar 19, 2015 10:22 am

Need to shakedown the vette for a few more days and I hope to register for this one! So far she's running like a demon again. Gotta burn up this old $3.80 gas that's still in her (added stabil back in October).
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby Native » Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:43 pm

AScoda wrote:I usually spell it with a 'B'
Oh. Well, in that case, i guess I'll register... :love:
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby AScoda » Fri Mar 20, 2015 6:50 am

shakedown067 wrote:I'm bringing a demon Vette that only runs on expensive, vintage gasoline from 2014.
Such a braggart!
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby shakedown067 » Fri Mar 20, 2015 7:40 am

:pointlaugh:
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby NervesOfThrill » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:00 pm

Just got the fresh rear rubber replaced from that nasty cut that kept me out of the last Championship event so I am itching to get back in the saddle.

This one will be a coin toss for me as that is Master's Sunday. Might be able to squeeze the morning session in depending on the final agenda for the day.
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby Loren » Fri Mar 27, 2015 9:36 pm

Verizon hates us again this month, it seems. If you have a Verizon email address and feel like requesting that our domain be unblocked, please do.

Meanwhile... I just sent an email reminding everyone to register for the two April events. Verizon customers didn't get it.
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby shakedown067 » Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:54 pm

Thanks for the reminder email, I'm in!
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby Loren » Sun Mar 29, 2015 6:47 pm

It's about time I posted the course map. Isn't it about time you registered! Please share this event with your friends on other car forums, social groups and wherever! Give them this link right here: http://msreg.com/FAST-Champ-12Apr2015

Here's the High Res PDF Course Map to print.


And here's a quick web view:
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby jbrannon7 » Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:09 pm

Looks like another really fun course. Rahly Dahling, fun.

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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby Jamie » Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:48 pm

Definitely going for the afternoon session...let the morning guys blow the dust off. :)
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby Carracer » Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:24 am

Looks great, I'll be seeing if I can get a clean event ( no cones or DNF ).
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby Solar » Mon Mar 30, 2015 1:28 pm

Jamie wrote:Definitely going for the afternoon session...let the morning guys blow the dust off. :)
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby twistedwankel » Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:40 pm

What I found really cool for this and the last event is being able to drive the course counter clockwise again. :thumbwink:

Funny thing about the "sand" last event Brian drove the first run of the day early with a full load, cold tires, strange car and didn't hit anything while posting a really fast time. Followed by Drew who went even faster with warm tires on the second run of the day. Just sayin'. :headscratch:

I come in the PM simply because I don't like getting up early and I like getting any stickers immediately with the roar of the crowd - it's exhilarating:)

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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby Loren » Thu Apr 02, 2015 2:43 pm

I ran a pretty respectable time in the first run group, myself. I still don't buy into the whole "afternoon is faster" theory. If anything, it's psychological because by the afternoon, enough people have run that you know what kind of time you "should" be running. But, if you take a page from resident alien Jeremy's playbook... you never drive according to what someone else is doing or has done... you just drive the car a little bit faster than humanly possible.

Anyway... turn-out is light for this event so far. Maybe everybody's out doing Spring Break trips or something? I don't know, but registration closes Monday. Get yourself registered! Bring friends!
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby Solar » Thu Apr 02, 2015 4:03 pm

Loren wrote: Anyway... turn-out is light for this event so far. Maybe everybody's out doing Spring Break trips or something? I don't know, but registration closes Monday. Get yourself registered! Bring friends!
I should be able to attend, have to wait it out as long as I can, family and/or work issues may have me heading out of town without much notice.
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby Professional_Slacker » Thu Apr 02, 2015 5:00 pm

Loren wrote:I ran a pretty respectable time in the first run group, myself. I still don't buy into the whole "afternoon is faster" theory. If anything, it's psychological because by the afternoon, enough people have run that you know what kind of time you "should" be running. But, if you take a page from resident alien Jeremy's playbook... you never drive according to what someone else is doing or has done... you just drive the car a little bit faster than humanly possible.

Anyway... turn-out is light for this event so far. Maybe everybody's out doing Spring Break trips or something? I don't know, but registration closes Monday. Get yourself registered! Bring friends!
my car is apart. I don't want to rush it together like I did last time.
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Re: April 12 - FAST Championship Autocross at Brooksville

Postby twistedwankel » Thu Apr 02, 2015 7:46 pm

My last xcross of any kind unless I rent a moped for 2 months so I'm signed up.

If Loren and Drew want to have a "top level" showdown. I'll volunteer the Vette since Matt is working so doesn't need a ride.

Each will get two runs so it doesn't matter who goes first BUT with proper guidance they will alternate drives.

Right hand pledge: "No FFA (future farmers of America) excursions AND hopefully no direct hit big cones."

I think these two guys are pretty equal from what I've observed and the GreyV8 is a "tie machine" lately.

If you don't show up you won't know the outcome.

If Jeremy comes he can co-drive with me as 119 and I'll bring the sprayer for our sunburned heads. I'm down to 5mm tread and it's getting really sticky now.

It will be a great Sunday for Racing @ Brooksville. I know you're waiting to see the long term weather forecast and they lie.

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