ER Event

[hancheyb]

So Paul, before I get too scared, you said that Blue STi was under prepared...just how prepared was it?!?! Ouch, that hurt this weekend.

[Paul]

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Brian,

I think Henry was wrong on that. Andrew told me he already had his engine mods and tuning done, so he was already at the same horsepower level as myself. I am pretty sure he has front and rear cobb sway bars and I know he had custom Koni's made (based on the factory strut). I don't know if they were on the car or not, I forgot to look. He is not going STU though, his car is setup (or will be) for BSP. Also, the factory tires are pretty damn good with very stiff sidewalls, stiffer than our 615's.

As a comparision, my car had a bad mid-corner push that I was not able to correct (lack of experience on my part).

The older club members who know Andrew well, all say he is freakishly fast, even in cars that he shouldn't be in. Take that for whatever it is worth. Gerry Terranova thinks he is a national level driver regardless.

[hancheyb]

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I watched his runs on course, his car had a mid corner push too. How did Sunday go?

[Paul]

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I didn't race on Sunday.

[Nick]

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Sunday was awesome. Challenging and fun course. The ProSolo courses on Saturday were good, but I wish they had been true mirror images. Would have been a better left to right comparison

I got pwn3d by Madarash on Sunday (as usual).

[instigator]

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Any link to the results?

[Nick]

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They'll probably be posted later today or tomorrow.

[C3]

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Here are some pics.

http://www.autocrosspictures.net/ERA...905/index.html

[C3]

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Results

Sat
http://www.autocross.com/er/cc905.pdf

Sun
http://www.autocross.com/er/cc1005.htm

[Paul]

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OK, I think there are mistakes here. I thought Kerry ran faster than Andrew on the left side but it doesn't show. Kerry thought so too as we discussed it.

Normal Race: (raw time runs of note are in () )

T 1 133 ANDREW HAHN 41.504 82.463
40.959 (40.350)
T 2 191 TIM BERGIN 41.756 83.352
41.596 <-- both of those were in my car (after camber/tire pressure change)
T 3 74 GABBY GARNER 41.801 83.375
41.574
T 4 66 PAUL MAGYAR (41.86 41.935 83.587
41.652 <-- both of my fastest raw times were third run after max camber added, before I lowered front tire pressure
5 95 TERRY FAIR (42.321) 42.421 84.105
41.684
6 195 BRIAN HANCHEY (41.900) 42.445 84.497
42.052 (41.729)
7 91 HENRY LIN 42.866 85.211
42.345 (41.414) <-- coned away second fastest time on right coarse
8 33 KERRY JAMES 43.155 85.827
42.672 <-- I could have sworn he had a low 41 on left side




PAX: (raw time runs of note are in () )

T 1 gs 80 JEREMY FOLEY SUBARU 42.510 33.242 66.108
42.029 32.866

T 4 stu 133 ANDREW HAHN 05 SUBARU STI 41.232 (41.153+1) 33.727 66.92
(40.394+1) 40.579 33.193

T 6 bs 9 MARK SIPE 05 MAZDA RX8 41.167 33.798 67.657
41.242 33.859

T 8 stu 191 TIM BERGIN 98 DODGE NEON 41.740 34.143 68.029
(41.418+1) 41.426 33.886

T 9 bs 33 CODY CASE 98 BMW M3 41.723 34.254 68.055
41.171 33.801

T 12 stu 195 BRIAN HANCHEY 97 BMW M3 42.076 34.418 68.208
41.309 33.79

T 14 stu 66 PAUL MAGYAR 05 SUBARU STI (41.947) 41.917 34.288 68.578
(41.925) 41.920 34.29 0.032 <-- I should be bracket racing with consistency like that

19 stu 95 TERRY FAIR 05 MAZDA RX8 42.418 34.697 68.897
41.810 34.2


Good job Cody, beat Sipe on right side! Brian ran a fast one on the right also!

I think the times show pretty much without a doubt Tim is a better driver than me. =/

Looking at Andrew and Kerry's times (same car), I think it shows Andrew is just a good driver.

[C3]

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Thanks. Those results, coupled with Sunday's, scream at me that I have got to work on driving my car out of increasing radius corners. If I can load the front end the car is beautiful, but the minute I try to combine throttle and steering inputs the whole thing goes to h3ll in a hurry. Either way, it was nice to be competitive for once.

[Fair!]

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That blue subie looked like a total plow buggy, but it was still quick. Comparing times after we made some big changes, it was a lot closer than we thought.

Without posted times it was very hard to tell how we did during the runs. Frustrating - we lost to Gabby, who we almost never lose to. Oh well, we have a lot more work to do! Hanchey is a busy boy this week at SEMA... we'll have a busy winter.

EDIT: Noticed we had 12 cars in STU? I had no idea (since half ran in opposing run groups). Wow, biggest real class of the event, by far (I don't count their local catch-all classes like "tire" or "noob").

[hancheyb]

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Yeah, I think we'd be more competitive after we made all the big changes. Too bad that was on our PAX runs. Car still isn't right. Maybe that wing I found at SEMA will help.

[Fair!]

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Yeah, I think we'd be more competitive after we made all the big changes. Too bad that was on our PAX runs. Car still isn't right. Maybe that wing I found at SEMA will help.

zip it!