SCCA at TMS Road Course 10-15-06

[Fair!]

Sorry about the lack of a reminder on this forum, but I only found out about this event on Saturday and Amy and I co-drove it with Paul on Sunday. Best autocross course at TMS EVAR! TMS infield road course with some slaloms thrown in for good measure. Still silly fast, rev limiter in the STi in 3rd gear. Yowsa! Stuck it in 3rd after first slalom/straight and left it there for the rest of the 62-ish sec runs.

Rained ALL DAY LONG. Less in the earlier run group, more second, and a little harder in the 3rd. We ran in 2nd. Paul had a smokin first run that ended up being unimprovable (and led the class into the 4th runs). He had max-cone-calls the rest of the day, with 10+ killed in 2 runs alone. Cone KILLING Machine! Punky had a great first run as well, that would have put her in 3rd for STU's largish class, but improved in increasingly wet weather to within 2 tenths of Paul's best. She did darn well for her first drive int he STi, me thinks, and won STU-L. I got a lucky fast 4th run that made for 6th in PAX. That car has got some PULL.

McCall's joined us in the RX8's Farewell Tour event, with some fast raw times thrown down by Jason. Yokohama Advans are pretty darn quick in the wet. STU beat BStock by 4 seconds - a class we don't always beat.

Check the pics.





You must make a point to enter this event next year. The course would have been insane in the dry - insanely FUN! It was pretty darn fun in the wet, and fast.

Note to self: GO BUY RAIN GEAR. 3rd wet event of the year I got caught out in the rain.
Note to Paul: buy a girdle! (threw his back out in the pits)

[Tommy R]

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Farewell to the RX8? What's up? I must've missed something....

T

[Fair!]

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Jason's Plan-of-the-Week ™ is to:

1) de-mod the RX8 back to stock (halfway done)
2) sell the yard art known as The Nomad (horay!!)
3) buy Melinda a cheap Jeep CJ (as a BRIBE)
4) buy "Melinda" a new Mitsubishi Evo IX GSR-SE.
5) turn Evo into a Melinda "co-worker-friendly" daily driver / STU prepped race car.

I like the whole idea except for the whole co-worker-ability part. I feel that this goal and "fully prepped STU Race Car" are mutually exclusive.

[John in Houston]

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Yeah... nice job by the Texas region promoting this one. I found out about it on Thursday. Would have loved to have come up and run the M3 on that course... but 2 days notice ain't gonna get it done.

[Fair!]

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Yeah... nice job by the Texas region promoting this one. I found out about it on Thursday. Would have loved to have come up and run the M3 on that course... but 2 days notice ain't gonna get it done.

Agreed. Also, this event should have been cross-promoted at other auto-x club events for the past 2-3 months...

The SCCA Regional folks don't do a lot of things that promote or retain people, but I don't want to do it (too much work) so I can't complain much.

[McCall]

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McCall's joined us in the RX8's Farewell Tour event, with some fast raw times thrown down by Jason. Yokohama Advans are pretty darn quick in the wet. STU beat BStock by 4 seconds - a class we don't always beat.

Yes, everyone MUST put this one on the calendar (like I did in February) for next year. It was a blast to be out there on the road course and not only was it fast, it flowed well. The RX8 and the shaved Advans worked great in the rain. Had Terry not pulled one out on his last run (which he didn't realize he had left and knuckleheads put the car up already hense we had to wait for them to finish the session but I digress ) Paul and I were neck and neck for best raw times. My best run that counted was dirty and I still finished 4th but in the end I keep nipping slalom cones. I did prove though that RWD can will work well in the rain

Jason's Plan-of-the-Week ™ is to:

1) de-mod the RX8 back to stock (halfway done)
2) sell the yard art known as The Nomad (horay!!)
3) buy Melinda a cheap Jeep CJ (as a BRIBE)
4) buy "Melinda" a new Mitsubishi Evo IX GSR-SE.
5) turn Evo into a Melinda "co-worker-friendly" daily driver / STU prepped race car.

I like the whole idea except for the whole co-worker-ability part. I feel that this goal and "fully prepped STU Race Car" are mutually exclusive.

Yep, that is pretty much the plan. I do hear your point Fair about the daily driving the Evo but do remember that on some days she can take the truck or my work car if I don't need it. We have been looking around at competitive stock car classes and none of the cars appeal to us, especially MeL. The GXP Solstice came pretty close but call me a bit gun shy of trying an unproven car again.

[hancheyb]

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Paul and I were neck and neck for best raw times

Nice, so neither of you had a real run, but your raw times were at least close!

[Paul]

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I had a 64.1 clean, a 66.x dirty (6 cones), a 63.2 dirty (3 cones), a 63.5 dirty (2 cones). Jason had a 63.5 dirty (2 cones I think) and Terry was standing on a 64.6 clean until the last run where he dropped two seconds for a 62.5 clean (we all think he missed part of the course =P). Amy had a 64.3 clean.

Overall I had a blast, one of the most fun autocrosses I have been to this year despite the rain and blowing out my back between my first and second runs.

ps: 40 sucks

[hancheyb]

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2 cones? 3 cones? Man, you guys were almost so fast. Sorry to hear about your back.

[McCall]

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2 cones? 3 cones? Man, you guys were almost so fast. Sorry to hear about your back.

Ha! Well in the rain ridin dirty is the norm

[hancheyb]

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Rain kinda negates the whole thing. I mean, FAIR was on top!! hehe

[Fair!]

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hehehe... LOVE ya Paul!

( ps: thanks again for the co-drive. it was a BLAST! )

[McCall]

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hehehe... LOVE ya Paul!

OMG!!!! That's the funniest sh1t I've seen in a looooooooooooooooonnnnggg time!!! BBWWWHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[Paul]

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hehehe... LOVE ya Paul!

( ps: thanks again for the co-drive. it was a BLAST! )

ROFLMAO... oh it hurts to laugh. =/

[Fair!]

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results are up: http://autocross.com/tr/tr806.shtml
pictures: http://www.autocrosspictures.net/SCC...1506/g--1.html

'Street Touring U' - Total Entries: 9 Trophies: 3 Times Total
1T 66 Terry Fair Silver 2005 Subaru Wrx Sti 66.760+1 64.630 64.301 62.514 62.514
[166] -
2T 166 Paul Magyar Silver 2005 Subaru Wrx Sti 64.167 65.280+6 63.202+3 63.531+DNF 64.167
[66] 1.653
3T 61 Eric Hedstrom Unknown 69.762 66.577 70.635+DNF 66.566+1 66.577
2.410
4 47 Jason Mccall Mazda Rx8 68.551 64.855+1 65.874+1 63.519+2 66.855
0.278
5 40 Tony Wagner Sliver 2002 Subaru Wrx 69.042+2 69.473+1 69.398 67.672 67.672
0.817
6 16 Rachel Blacketer Silver 2005 Subaru Wrx Sti 68.072 66.067+1 66.115+2 77.959+3 68.067
0.395
7 9 Steve Wortham Blue 2006 Subaru Sti 76.223 71.771 68.492 86.085+1 68.492
0.425
8 111 Jordan Hubnik Suburu Sti 82.878 78.308+DNF 76.167 75.834 75.834
7.342
9 715 Jeremy Hubinik Suburu Sti 91.176+1 77.521 89.663 78.982 77.521
1.687

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'Street Touring U Ladies' - Total Entries: 2 Trophies: 1 Times Total
1T 66 Amy Fair Mazda Rx8 65.452+1 64.759+1 64.015+2 64.362 64.362
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2 74 Melinda Mccall 71.811 69.223 69.057 68.377+1 69.057
4.695
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'B Street Prepared' - Total Entries: 2 Trophies: 1 Times Total
1T 81 Mark Berry 2003 Mitsubishi Evolution 61.151+1 60.717 78.167+DNF 60.717
-
2 62 Jim Harris Mitsubishi Evolution 67.930+2 66.558 64.366 64.894 64.366
3.649

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'B Stock' - Total Entries: 7 Trophies: 3 Times Total
1T 88 Jon Wagner Mazda Rx8 72.289+DNF 69.039 67.885 66.265 66.265
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2T 75 Iain Peebles 2004 Mazda Rx-8 73.251+DNF 68.976+1 66.750+1 66.538 66.538
[175] 0.273
3T 175 David Hedderick Green 2004 Mazda Rx8 71.493+2 67.130+2 67.879+1 66.833 66.833
[75] 0.295
4 52 Chad Ponder Blue 2005 Mazda Rx-8 70.702+1 68.908 67.315+1 68.908
2.075
5 25 Sean Ponder Blue 2005 Mazda Rx-8 72.934 79.914+1 68.302+1 70.593 70.302
1.394
6 5 W. Waters Blue 2005 Nissan 350Z 76.303 73.584 71.852 70.943 70.943
0.641
7 11 Amir Elbaghdady Red 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo 85.677 87.561 82.891 78.358 78.358
7.415
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'Super Stock' - Total Entries: 7 Trophies: 3 Times Total
1T 183 Stuart Maxcy Yellow 2004 Porsche Gt3 63.088+DNF 61.752+DNF 62.539 61.860 61.860
[83] -
2T 83 Doug Maxcy Yellow 2004 Porsche Gt 3 67.344 65.744 63.575 62.383 62.383
[183] 0.523
3T 35 David Smart Silver 2005 Lotus Elise 62.869 63.156 62.398 61.649+2 62.398
0.015
4 93 Bob Neff 2002 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 66.484 65.366 64.759 64.096 64.096
1.698
5 94 Greg Stirneman Laser Blue 2005 Lotus Elise 74.322 66.303 64.852+1 64.171 64.171
0.075
6 4 Charles Cram 2002 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 70.832+1 71.603 69.885+1 67.876+1 69.876
5.705
7 99 Damon Bottorff Blue 1993 Mazda Rx-7 Tt 73.242+1 68.779+1 67.231+2 68.417+1 70.417
0.541

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PAX

Pos. Class # Rookie Driver Car Model Total Factor Pax Time Diff. From 1st
1 HS 19 Rick Clark White 1989 Honda Civic Si 63.557 *0.780 49.574 0.000 0.000
2 FJ1 98 Adam Starr . 2004 Emmick Kart 60.508 *0.837 50.645 1.071 1.071
3 HS 9 Gerry Terranova White 1989 Honda Civic Si 64.948 *0.780 50.659 0.014 1.085
4 XES 67 Matt Lucas White 1991 Toyota Mr2 63.290 *0.806 51.011 0.352 1.437
5 BSP 81 Mark Berry Silver/Red 2003 Mitsubishi Evolution 60.717 *0.843 51.184 0.173 1.610
6 STU 66 Terry Fair Silver 2005 Subaru Wrx Sti 62.514 *0.820 51.261 0.077 1.687
7 XF125 85 Darrin Towers Black 2000 Italkart Supersonic 54.743 *0.937 51.294 0.033 1.720
8 GS 2 Ed Brown Audi A4 64.913 *0.794 51.540 0.246 1.966
9 GS 80 Jeremy Foley Blueish 2001 Subaru 2.5Rs 64.950 *0.794 51.570 0.030 1.996
10 XESP 91 Mark Madarash White Firebird 62.589 *0.828 51.823 0.253 2.249
11 XFM 133 Gary Kramar Blue/Yellow 1989 Red Devil F500 58.467 *0.887 51.860 0.037 2.286
12 SS 183 Stuart Maxcy Yellow 2004 Porsche Gt3 61.860 *0.840 51.962 0.102 2.388
13 STX 7 Kuni Ito Silver 2005 Subaru Wrx 65.167 *0.804 52.394 0.432 2.820
14 SS 83 Doug Maxcy Yellow 2004 Porsche Gt 3 62.383 *0.840 52.401 0.007 2.827
15 SS 35 David Smart Silver 2005 Lotus Elise 62.398 *0.840 52.414 0.013 2.840
16 STS 64 Todd Milstead Camo 1991 Honda Civic Si 66.004 *0.797 52.605 0.191 3.031
17 STU 166 Paul Magyar Silver 2005 Subaru Wrx Sti 64.167 *0.820 52.616 0.011 3.042
18 STUL 66 Amy Fair mazda rx8 64.362 *0.820 52.776 0.160 3.202
19 GS 26 Clement Jones . 1986 Nissan 300Zx 66.713 *0.794 52.970 0.194 3.396
20 FJ1 25 Tyler Hernandez 63.399 *0.837 53.065 0.095 3.491