Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

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Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby Loren » Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:54 pm

We'll be rockin' another FAST Classic in a few weeks! This will be the "All Steve" edition, as Loren will be out of town.

For the noobs among us, a FAST Classic is a sort of old school "small club" autocross, but with the usual FAST flair! Fewer drivers, a little later start, a respectably early end, awesome lunch... oh, and lots of runs! (usually around 8) A little less focus on competition, a lot less focus on teaching the novices, and a lot more focus on having a good time! It's a great opportunity to get some practice, swap cars with some friends, and just have some extra fun.

Normally, the FAST Classic events require entrants to have at least 3 prior events of experience. For THIS event only, we're going to loosen that restriction to 2 prior events... and we'll even go as far as to allow drivers with just ONE event of prior experience to register IF their one event was the September 13th FAST Open event.

So, what are you waiting for?

Registration is open!
http://msreg.com/FAST-Classic-27Sep2015
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby Loren » Sun Sep 13, 2015 10:25 pm

Here's the course that Steve designed for you. Should be a really fun one!

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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby Loren » Tue Sep 15, 2015 1:31 pm

Registration closes in 6 days! Monday, 9/21.

The event is half-full already, and we're gonna do an email blast and Facebook push later this week. It is possible that this event could fill up. Don't get left out! You know what to do.
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby Rpwolf » Tue Sep 15, 2015 6:38 pm

this would be perfect to test out a couple things with the car
I was running on broken motor mounts and tire pressure way to low at the last event
and I will try more stable alignment this time around
cant wait!
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby twistedwankel » Tue Sep 15, 2015 10:35 pm

Loren wrote:Registration closes in 6 days! Monday, 9/21.

The event is half-full already, and we're gonna do an email blast and Facebook push later this week. It is possible that this event could fill up. Don't get left out! You know what to do.
That's a mighty nice course!! Play sweet home Alabama on that one.

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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby Ohno ItstheRozzers » Wed Sep 16, 2015 1:22 am

Looks like a fun course. This will be the first time driving my MX-5 at more than 7/10th's (I was auto-xing a 06 Mustang GT previously). Hoping for a good shake-down and evaluation day. Looking forward to it!
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby twistedwankel » Wed Sep 16, 2015 11:26 am

Cancelled Special Ops for this event.
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby garage west » Wed Sep 16, 2015 7:58 pm

Reg'd. Haven't done a Classic in a while. In for a fun day!
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby twistedwankel » Wed Sep 16, 2015 9:26 pm

garage west wrote:Reg'd. Haven't done a Classic in a while. In for a fun day!
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby Jamie » Wed Sep 16, 2015 10:04 pm

Took Ben up on his offer to drive the FASTiva before he changed his mind. We'll see if it's as frightening as Loren maintains. :)
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby BrilloHeadBen » Wed Sep 16, 2015 10:30 pm

Jamie wrote:Took Ben up on his offer to drive the FASTiva before he changed his mind. We'll see if it's as frightening as Loren maintains. :)

8-) Awesome! I'm looking forward to getting some input from you, FWD is strange to me. That's also probably why the car feels scary, I'm not driving it smoothly enough.
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby Loren » Wed Sep 16, 2015 11:09 pm

Ben's not gonna change his mind, Jamie... you put too many hours into that car to not get a shot at driving it!
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby Carracer » Thu Sep 17, 2015 1:16 pm

I might not make this :(
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby twistedwankel » Thu Sep 17, 2015 1:18 pm

BrilloHeadBen wrote:
Jamie wrote:Took Ben up on his offer to drive the FASTiva before he changed his mind. We'll see if it's as frightening as Loren maintains. :)

8-) Awesome! I'm looking forward to getting some input from you, FWD is strange to me. That's also probably why the car feels scary, I'm not driving it smoothly enough.
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So this is really where you got the idea for the rear suspension change right?

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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby Native » Thu Sep 17, 2015 7:54 pm

Carracer wrote:I might not make this :(
Just call in "healthy!"
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby Loren » Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:18 pm

Native wrote:
Carracer wrote:I might not make this :(
Just call in "healthy!"
We used to call that a "mental health day"!

Actually, I did have a job once where they accepted that people would use their "sick leave" however they wanted to, and flat out called it "sick/well time"! You could call in an hour before your shift and say "I'm feeling well, I think I might go fishing, I'll be in 4 hours late", and as long as you had some time saved up, you were good!
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby twistedwankel » Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:37 pm

Carracer wrote:I might not make this :(
You did say you've been ill. That sucks. You do drive like you are a sick person!! Everyone says how sick you drive.

Get well soon.

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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby twistedwankel » Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:40 pm

I was studying the course map and really appreciate that hatched line which shows where S0 will be 6-8 car lengths ahead of S4 this time. :thumbwink:
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby Jamie » Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:13 pm

twistedwankel wrote:I was studying the course map and really appreciate that hatched line which shows where S0 will be 6-8 car lengths ahead of S4 this time. :thumbwink:
No worries...this time, you'll be able to tell us how it feels to get clobbered by a car putting 60 hp to the crank.
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Re: Sept 27 - FAST Classic @ Brooksville

Postby Loren » Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:37 pm

Jamie wrote:
twistedwankel wrote:I was studying the course map and really appreciate that hatched line which shows where S0 will be 6-8 car lengths ahead of S4 this time. :thumbwink:
No worries...this time, you'll be able to tell us how it feels to get clobbered by a car putting 60 hp to the crank.
Ooooh, it's ON now! I want video. Photos. Telemetry. CNN coverage. This will be epic!

(What? No, I did NOT mean that it will take an epoch for the FASTiva to get around the course!)
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