Jan 14th Post-Event - Ziptied Event on the Zip line

[twistedwankel]

All the movers and shakers are still going home after a short delay and helping Drew get his Alternator adjuster re-bolted onto the car. At least they sold the bolt in a two pack so we know he made it home if he kept the two wrenches that fit? Yeah he made it home. He has a spare so it will never happen again. Glad we could help him out. It's a long way home when you have to come back and get your car later.

Well, wife had a lovely dinner waiting so all I had time for was one beer and chow down.

You all in the morning are merely hearsay to us in the afternoon. Would have loved a couple more drives on this course because in the first run group we had light drizzle for two runs then the sun came back out. I'm thrilled to have decreased the distance between David L and I to a mere .9 seconds. Mind you he finished 7th OA with only two dry runs. 1st and 4th. He did point out that for 20 seconds I was in first place until he finished his last run It's called racing.

Overall a great day for me. No cones, no OC's, no spins, no sunburn, beat the Fastiva, no car issues!! A great day of racing and getting a 2nd place finish in 16th OA works for me after subtracting the 3 FN who made it into the 48's. That's a lot of people in the 48's folks. Speaking of fast Ron R finished 2nd in M2 ahead of Dan without ever walking the course!! FTD OA went to 999 in M1 with street tires!! I watched him cone away his 45 second run by a smigin'. Fantastic driving. Find Gerry in S2 way by himself and I saw him blow away a 47!! Matt actually was fast in M2 this time. He beat his co-driver for the first time ever. There's got to be a story there!!

There's got to be dozens of stories after today!! Some great some not so great but stories all the same.

Happy Racing.

Doug

[Tim_M]

The thrill is back...been too long without some technical driving challenges!

My flailings...literally. Very rusty and lots of slop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX7jyBJMpBQ

FAST puts on good entertainment-thanks!

[CaptainSquirts]

Fun course! Mark back at it again with them ftod. I'm just going to swap to a fatter turbo just to move out of m1 . Congrats Mark! I don't know how you drive like you do Tim but no words. I think you need to be a race track taxi driver. I would pay for that.

48.808 Run from me. I was happy with that.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dorVf08cV_M

[RedBRZ80]

Great event as always! Glad to give Doug a target to aim at. Little rain almost got us, but got the dry run to lay down a decent 47.4. Still underdriving the FoRS. When I throw it around it goes faster.. just have to trust her..

[twistedwankel]

Great event as always! Glad to give Doug a target to aim at. Little rain almost got us, but got the dry run to lay down a decent 47.4. Still underdriving the FoRS. When I throw it around it goes faster.. just have to trust her..

I heard the people who threw their cars around spun out a lot. I wish you would have done that today. So it's a "SHE"? Like Myrtel the Turtle?
The earth is wobbling on it's axis. I beat all of S4 again!! I know Jamie was running on mold release compound today but those other two guys were right on each other's numbers so they have no excuses. Close but no cigar.

[Kdub085]

Big shout-out to the FAST guys for designing another awesome course!!

As usual today's course setup was suburb, I was able to keep all of my track times within hundredths of a second for all four runs (excluding a couple cone penalties) but who's keeping track of that right? It's the fastest clean lap that counts!

I managed to put up a 50.704 and ended up in 7th for M2, right behind my nemesis Taylor in the Speed3. I think we're going on 3 events now where he's one up'd me! [emoji35] but at least today I was able to keep his lead down to .500ths of a seconds where usually its over a second lead. So I guess it's the little victories that count.

Anyways here's my two best clean laps from today. I know I easily left at least a second on the track after watching today's runs, as usual I'm carrying too much speed and sledding my fwd car into the corners. But I'm starting to become mentally aware and comfortable of where I'm at on the track and what speed I'm at and what I need to do next. So as they say, practice makes perfect. Eventually I'll get this Autocross thing down.

See y'all on the 29th at the dog track.

Fastest clean lap. 50.704
https://youtu.be/kuKoo0oteUU

Second fastest clean lap. 50.963
https://youtu.be/krYmTtX_vak


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[RedBRZ80]

Keith.. one word.. LATE.. turnaround is good example.. the Apex is the cone.. watch your fast run.. how much later you committed to the turn.. the entry to the lane changes is another spot. Gas or brake.. limit the coasting time.

[Cool Rod]

Sorry we couldn't make it. The alternator gave out on us when we stopped for a Whopper at Burger King on 54. We bought a fresh battery at a local Advance Auto and limped her home. Hope our absence didn't put too much strain on you guys as we were scheduled for tech.

[jaball77]

Jeez, once again the afternoon session killed us morning guys! Glad I held on by the skin of my teeth...

[Loren]

Looks like I'm late to this party! Long day for some of us. Didn't get home until around 7:30.

Anyhow... Some relatively minor issues aside, another great FAST event in the books, largely thanks to YOU. Autocross simply doesn't work without everyone pulling together to make it happen. So, thank you!

Got a late start this morning due to the fog. It slowed the setup process a bit, and delayed our safety-check pre-run until the fog started to lift. That put us something like 15 minutes behind schedule right from the start. We ended up starting the drivers meeting 10 minutes late, and were almost back on schedule with the start of the first run group. But, with 6 first-timers in each of the morning run groups, things moved a little S L O W throughout the morning. It really wasn't a huge deal, something that we expected. That, and the fact that we had a full-house for the morning caused us to limit ourselves to 4 runs. Simple math says that 27 drivers x 4 runs x 30-second start interval = 54 minutes... not enough time for a 5th run, and only 6 minutes of "fudge factor". Unfortunately, our average start interval was more like 32-35 seconds rather than the target of under 30. And there was a lot of down time due to the usual variety of course problems. (spins, people getting lost, noob course workers stepping out in front of cars, etc) The last half of the second run group was particularly awful! Just when things "should" have been settling down and we should have been done in 25 minutes, suddenly all sorts of problems stacked on top of each other and that 25 minutes turned into what seemed like 40.

Anyway, apologies to the Late Session drivers who had to camp outside the gate for an extra 15 minutes or so!

We got back on schedule with a slightly rushed driver's meeting in the afternoon. But, in spite of there being a few less people, and only 3 first-timers in each group... things still ran a little on the slow side for some reason. More of the "lots of little problems". Just little stuff that adds a minute or two here or there. It happens. It just happened A LOT today!

At the end of the day, we finished pretty close to on time. 99 drivers got some great competition runs on a course that a lot of people seemed to like. Can't complain about that.

Overall, I have to say that I felt like course work was done a lot better today than at a lot of recent events. Good job on that!

[Native]

Well that cone I hit cost me first and second place, and almost 20 spots overall. C'est la vie, right?? I sure had fun trying...
The rides I gave my first 3 runs were even more fun - I really enjoy introducing folks to this great sport, and how the enthusiasm rubs off on me!

The day was a real mix of weathers - kinda odd: dark, fog, sun, clouds, brief rain, sun again. A little snow would've really rounded it out! The rest was very consistent - great group of people, lots of cooperation and help, good chat, and a challenging course. Yeah, we got off to a little bit of a late start, and the usual odd interference here and there, but overall, things moved along nicely. Well done, everyone!

[ImpostorDan]

What a great course (as always), fun day all around. I drove a bit conservatively AND RON BEAT ME! Congrats to Ron; at least I didn't get caught by the fastiva shame nor did I lose to the Mayor for that matter...

My favorite part of the day might have been giving Amoroso a code brown in the turn around...

[Carracer]

Pictures!
Big thanks to Urban for spotting for me in the morning and Mike for getting the afternoon run group 1 pictures.
https://flic.kr/s/aHskSwPCxA

Great course, just wish I had figured it out quicker. Found out I could theoretically get into the 47s and coned my last run. I was really disappointed as I felt like that was my best driving in weeks.

https://youtu.be/qMoYrZcn2tM

[markzeronine]

Fun course! Mark back at it again with them ftod. I'm just going to swap to a fatter turbo just to move out of m1 . Congrats Mark!]

Haha thanks! Swap some better tires and then we're talking. Bigger turbo will just make you have to deal with Drew and that's no joke!


Thanks everyone for your kind words, I've been lucky with the recent events working with my gearing. Being down on power from a lot of guys I compete with isn't bad when the momentum is there to keep me going

[AScoda]

As many of the afternooners know, My alternator tensioner broke again. Rowen found it on the course and Doug was gracious to drive me to Lowes and get a new mounting bolt. Got it reassembled and fired it up to leave, and found battery light still on. No juice from alternator. Couldn't find any wiring issues, so I assumed the alternator fried when it spun free. Had a half-assed idea to get it home and it worked, but took an hour longer to get home. Went as far as I could on battery and no lights. Made it to the Walmart at the apex of 41 and Dale Mabry in Land o lakes. Called my friend Mark, who came out with jumper cables. Gave it a charge and trudged on. Stopped 3 more times to top off the charge and got it back home, also with no lights.
Thanks for the help again Guys. Rowen, Doug, Ron and the others that helped get it back together, and Joe Brannon for letting me take the rest of my runs in his car.

[xxAGAVExx]

Thanks for the pics Phillip


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[Native]

Glad you got home, Drew. Hopefully you can sort that all out and make yesterday your last adventure for a good long while!

[JasonS]

Great fun was had yesterday. Course was entertaining but challenging. Never really felt like was finding the flow. Managed a best of 49.1 but it just didn't feel good. I'm sure I left a lot of time on the course.

Working the second morning group was an interesting time. Felt really....messy. That mustang spin reminded me of so many you tube videos...

[Loren]

My little excursion into the grass... I blamed it on the rain and cold tires. This photo shows what really happened. Maybe cold tires were a factor. Maaaaybe the rain, but I doubt it. I simply got behind at the entry to the slalom, and by the 3rd cone, I was WAY late. I yanked right, felt the back end start to slide and knew that trying to correct back to the left would have likely resulted in a spin off into the grass... so, I just got myself straight and took it out into the grass.

Sometimes you just have to know when to say when.

[Kdub085]

Lol damn I'm glad it didn't rain for the morning group, that could have easily been anyone of us. At least in all of the pictures Phillip posted you had a smile on your face! I woulda been wearing my OH SH*T PANIC face! [emoji43][emoji32]


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