The finish was "interesting". You had 150 feet straight from the finish that you "could" stop in if you got on the brakes IMMEDIATELY and hard enough. I doubt that anyone was topping about 50 mph there. But, the trick was to NOT try to stop there. Just slow down enough to make the turn, and casually keep braking... you'd be stopped before you were 2/3 of the way around the turn. Even the FASTiva, which is notoriously twitchy under hard braking, had no trouble with it.Redstangone wrote:Fun day, great course, although a little hard to stop at the end but fun flat track in it like an Old Country Road
Today was just about our minimum number of people to run 3 groups. We like to do it because it gives everyone an "off" group that they can hang out, ride with other people, chat with friends, whatever. "Old school autocross" stuff that we simply can't do when we run a 2-group event and are stuck either driving or working with no time in-between.PrestonJ wrote:I think just having two run groups instead of the 3 would have solved this by adding a little bigger buffer in-between each competitors runs...that being said, as a course worker I had no complaints, went quickly.
Great runs, that 34.377 at the end was heartbreaking to the rest of S4PrestonJ wrote:Another great event, first time at the greyhound site so I don't know typical course setups, this one was good, lots of fun. The on and off camber (hills for lack of a better word) coupled with lower grip limits that you can achieve on concrete made for an entertaining day. Really enjoyed the contrast between this site and Brooksville, they are very different spaces and require very different course designs, I applaud another great design.
Eight runs was awesome, the efficiency was almost too rapid though, luckily it's relaxed enough to where I was able to skip the run order a few times to check tire pressures and drink some water before I ran again. I think just having two run groups instead of the 3 would have solved this by adding a little bigger buffer in-between each competitors runs...that being said, as a course worker I had no complaints, went quickly.
It was for sure a miata day, even more so a Mazda Speed Miata day, nice runs Drew. The same gearing that plagues the car on national style courses really helped today. (2nd gear rev limit is under 50mph, I think I recorded 46mph when I used my solostorm last). Even though I was on the rev limit in three places, which I ended up shifting to 3rd in two places, the short 2nd gear allowed for the car to really dig out of those three main corners that lead to fairly long straights/kinks/distractions entailing cones. Phillip put in some flyers too, taking 4th overall. Mike, was fast as usual, enjoyed watching him slide the FRS around while I worked. Had to bail a little early so I didn't see last runs, but thanks to everyone who made the day possible, had a lot of fun!
-Preston
I was giving Matt the business for not showing up with his sticky tires. A Mazdaspeed podium would have kicked ass. He still would have had to at least get past Mike Lawson though, and you better bring your 'A' game for that.PrestonJ wrote:It was for sure a miata day, even more so a Mazda Speed Miata day
Loren wrote:Freakin' Drew and his freakin' Mustang.
dan wrote:Freakin' Drew and his freakin' Miata.
Rawkkrawler wrote:Freakin’ Drew and his OTHER freakin’ Mustang!
What can I say - going through facing forward just got boring.Carracer wrote:
There's a pretty good likely hood that I was going more than 50Loren wrote:The finish was "interesting". You had 150 feet straight from the finish that you "could" stop in if you got on the brakes IMMEDIATELY and hard enough. I doubt that anyone was topping about 50 mph there. But, the trick was to NOT try to stop there. Just slow down enough to make the turn, and casually keep braking... you'd be stopped before you were 2/3 of the way around the turn. Even the FASTiva, which is notoriously twitchy under hard braking, had no trouble with it.Redstangone wrote:Fun day, great course, although a little hard to stop at the end but fun flat track in it like an Old Country Road
Okay, I should have said "almost no one". Being in the top 6 with a turbo car... yeah, you were probably one of the few. I really don't know how fast I was going in the FASTiva. Suffice it to say "not very". Maybe 45ish?Dave-ROR wrote:There's a pretty good likely hood that I was going more than 50Loren wrote:I doubt that anyone was topping about 50 mph there.
Without abs I still had no issues though but I came within 10 feet or so of the wall once.
Loren wrote:Freakin' Drew and his freakin' Mustang.
dan wrote:Freakin' Drew and his freakin' Miata.
Rawkkrawler wrote:Freakin’ Drew and his OTHER freakin’ Mustang!
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