2007 Houston National Tour

[Paul]

Here are the course maps:


Day 1




Day 2




I hope you like slaloms. =)

[hancheyb]

Re: 2007 Houston National Tour

I'm going to kill Fair if he brakes in all those offsets.

[Fair!]

Re: 2007 Houston National Tour

So very tired... we raced all day Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Great event except for the crappy food at Saturday night's banquet. Courses were very fun, challenging. The off camber corner exits and junk surface really messed me up.

Some pictures (from Chris Stokes):

http://picasaweb.google.com/cstokes5...tionalTourDay1
http://picasaweb.google.com/cstokes5...tionalTourDay2

I'll post pictures we took tonight (350+).

When we figure out how to edit and host videos we'll put those up. We have Day 1 in-car vids from Amy, me and Ramey (co-driving the M3) + external video from all of Teucci's Day 1 runs in the LS1 BMW. Man, it sounded and looked GREAT! It was even fairly competitive at 300# overweight and sporting 255 VictoRacers. Awesome to see it out there.

Good job to Jason (who won STU) and Melinda (who won STU-L). The EVO team was unstoppable! Vorshlag cars took 1-6 in STU and 1-2 in STU-L.

STU:

1. McCall (EVO)
2. Chris Stokes (M3)
3. Pat in Paul's car (STi)
4. Chris Ramey in my car (M3)
5. Fair (M3)
6. Paul (STi)

Some other people rounded out the rest of the 10 STU entries. Tight grouping for the top 6.

[hancheyb]

Re: 2007 Houston National Tour

I was just an observer on Saturday. Personally I think setup at GGP is like no other surface we play on, maybe MW a little. Plus they had every corner exit (the ones that were turn arounds) on "humps" so it was off camber.

I did analysis at TMS (Subaru vs. M3), that really hurts the M3 especially when the distance between those 180s is so great. It favors awd traction and hp a bunch. On those short 180s at TMS I would catch Terry right at braking for the next one, but they were so short it didn't matter. On GGP's Day 1, it mattered big time. The M3 was loose all weekend after being "perfect" on the TMS surface which makes the loosest car plow. So, what do you do?

Kudos to the McCalls, the Evo looked flat out awesome. Never didn't anything bad that I saw. It hooked up, turned, braked. Pretty nice. I think it was my revalving.

[Paul]

Re: 2007 Houston National Tour

I think it was my revalving.

Jason did mention on the way home it was a ton better. Nice job Brian.

[McCall]

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Some pictures (from Chris Stokes):

http://picasaweb.google.com/cstokes5...tionalTourDay1
Good job to Jason (who won STU) and Melinda (who won STU-L). The EVO team was unstoppable! Vorshlag cars took 1-6 in STU and 1-2 in STU-L.

best picture by far

(while putting on the Vorshlag hat for the press) I'd like to thank the crew at Vorshlag for all their hard work at putting a great car together that enabled me to be competitive this weekend...hehe

Seriously, the re-valved shocks made the car near perfect for my driving style at least at GGP. The car felt great and did exactly what I wanted it to do. Thanks again B for the re-work. That second run on Sunday (with the mysterious cone call) was by far one of the best feeling runs I have had in the car (or any car really) as it was soo much fun to drive.

I'm looking forward to getting some of ya'lls feedback after you drive it at the practice this Saturday.

[hancheyb]

Re: 2007 Houston National Tour

Yeah, I doubt we're done. Glad it worked down there. That's a good data point. MW will be another this weekend. Fair laughs at me, but I'm ordering up the tools to have a rebuild station at my house. It will be capable of being portable so that at big events we can do revalving on site. Could have been nice for this Saturday. Maybe for August, definitely for Nationals if necessary.

[McCall]

Re: 2007 Houston National Tour

Results are up: http://scca.com/_FileLibrary/File/Ho...ry-%20Res3.pdf

[Chris S.]

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best picture by far

I could never catch her on Friday night... with the mini skirt and heels. Those pictures are the ones I use for encouragement to get my wife out to the events.

That second run on Sunday (with the mysterious cone call) was by far one of the best feeling runs I have had in the car (or any car really) as it was soo much fun to drive.

Jason, you definitely found the line on that 2nd run. If it weren't for the "cone incidence" (which may have been mine ) you would have moved ahead by over a second!!! Excellent driving.

After revisiting the course (mentally) I can understand why traction was difficult in a lot of areas. I think Brian pointed it out already. The high speed off-camber sweepers made it a be-otch to get power down. Touche' all-wheel drive EVO!

[GotCone?]

Re: 2007 Houston National Tour

best picture by far

I beleive that is Jessie Caudill's (STS Civic) women. She was relatively tall right?

[McCall]

Re: 2007 Houston National Tour

IJason, you definitely found the line on that 2nd run. If it weren't for the "cone incidence" (which may have been mine ) you would have moved ahead by over a second!!! Excellent driving.

Thanks man. Ok, regarding the cone call I talked with Matt Lucas (one of our local SCCA board members) as he worked audit for the 4th heat and he gave me the scope on how it works. He said if the corner sheet shows a cone regardless of what the master sheet says you have to mark the cone on the master sheets during audit because corner sheets override masters for cone calls. So basically some random competitor who is doing the writing at a corner station has precedence over the master sheet in the official trailer. I'm not really sure how I feel about that. Makes you really want to double check that stuff and verify when you work a corner now though. He also did mention that during the audit they had a red pen so my cone mark must have happened after the fact during the audit of the corner station sheets.

Oh well, I'll take my aluminum hat off and just live it with. Hey I still got the win and I'm really happy about that. I know I might not be as lucky next time as the competition around here is tough!

As far as the picture, Jon no other dude's names allowed. We don't need to know that kind of stuff

[Paul]

Re: 2007 Houston National Tour

I beleive that is Jessie Caudill's (STS Civic) women. She was relatively tall right?

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[Chris S.]

Re: 2007 Houston National Tour

She was relatively tall right?

Yes, tall with heels and a miniskirt.

I overheard someone talking about it taking an hour to shave those legs.
Also, heard a more discrimitory "I'll just call her dessert".

On a more respective note. She had the qualities of a model. Maybe the next Vorshlag model? I have a camera and am willing to travel for such a nobel cause.

[hancheyb]

Re: 2007 Houston National Tour

We talked about needing a model for the PRI show.

[John in Houston]

Re: 2007 Houston National Tour

We talked about needing a model for the PRI show.

Damn... I thought that was my job