This was a beautiful normal hot summer day. We voted at the driver's meeting to have no rain. Clear skies all day long. The die hards had set up a timed circle to calculate "g" forces after awards but I had had more than enough driving the Fastiva 3x for the first time and then finished my total of 8 runs in the Rx8. Many people took advantage of hopping cars like the Classic always seems to encourage. Everyone had a blast. I believe there were about 30 runs on my Rx8 by mostly better drivers than me. I was impressed with the tight grouping of all the M2 drivers who took turns seeing what it could do. They were all only separated by .2 of a sec. That's impressive driving my car with no torque.
They were all in the 53 second band which was fast for most people on street tires. Not quite as fast as their normal cars in M2 but fast all the same. I was very happy with the results of todays experiment to find out just how fast my car is supposed to be!!
At the end of the day "off the record" Drew was able to pull out a final clean 52.760 run which if you look at the final standings you will be impressed for a stock S2 car on NOS 3 year old Rivals I got from Tire Rack. They stick really well and they were 1/2 price:) I'd do that again anytime.
I beat a couple people ending up 7th out of 10 in M3 but I would have been 4th out of 4 in the Fastiva had it counted in M4. Soraya won the M4 class by .7 sec. She was flying. The Fastiva has a learning curve that is a straight vertical line leading to a flat plateau but it actually handles very very well and I improved 6 seconds on my second run clean. Ben gave me one of the wildest rides of my life in that car during my rest break and it's a good thing I rode along. It is something that has to be experienced to be understood. Excellent no frills race car
It handles so well once you "get it" that you only need about 37HP of the 42 still available to be fast in it. They totally beat my times in the Rx8!! Soraya brought an awesome lunch from a place I never heard of in Spring Hill. She also really impressed me with a quick clean 55 second first cold run with me in the Rx8. Not a lot of people can do that. Reminded me a lot of when Philip drove it for the first time!! Fearless.
If you weren't there you missed another great fun filled happy event. This may have been the high point of my Father's Day weekend? Way better than a tie.
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