Renting Mineral Wells

[Tommy R]

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You can stay at Fair's inlaws!

LOL...

[Fair!]

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I hate you guys...

Just got cable modem service hooked up and wired! Woohoo!

edit: of course amy and i will be there.

[hancheyb]

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I hate you guys...

Just got cable modem service hooked up and wired! Woohoo!

edit: of course amy and i will be there.

At least you've got your priorities straight?

[instigator]

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Cary and I will be at MW and the party. We'll be bringing two cars to MW too.

[hancheyb]

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All righty then. People are beginning to ask about the details behind our practice event. Here we go:

Where: Mineral Wells Airpark
When: January 28, 2006, 8AM or thereafter
Who: See attached spreadsheet
How (much): $25/person, check, cash or paypal (hancheyb@vorshlag.com)

What:

1. A full day of practice autocross with timers. Schedule is tentative.

8AM-9AM: Setup

9AM-12PM: Practice makes perfect!
The morning will be geared towards practicing! We'll set up a skidpad, slalom, oval with increasing/decreasing radius turns, maybe other options depending on the number of cones we have. We have 200 cones is that enough? I hope so.

12PM-1PM: Lunch, reset course.

1PM-we're tired:

Set up one big course from the practice pieces from the morning. We'll do our DL-1 experimenting here. Drivers pull off to designated pit stall, get the DL-1 installed and do their runs. Everyone else can take turns getting in line, shagging cones, etc.

Additional fun for the day:

-We'll have the scales out there and alignment tools if you want to check both. I'm sure they won't be leveled.

7PM: Dinner at the Hanchey's, review any video and/or pictures on the DLP, initial DL-1 analysis maybe?

5806 Ascot Ct
Parker, TX 75002

EDIT: Just talked to the guy that rents MW. He said the fires came up on two sides of the track, but everything is OK. Luckily someone moved his trailer of cones and street sweeper or else they'd be cooked.

[Dean!]

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I likely won't have anything this side of Hertz to race, but I'll be out there.

I won't be able to attend the dinner/party festivities as it's Amber's 30th B-day Tradition and the party is supposed to be something huge....

[hancheyb]

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Which one is Amber?

[Dean!]

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Which one is Amber?

Old timer that I've known like 4 years or so.... she's the one that had the big birthday celebration last year at Ojedas and another place thereafter....

[hancheyb]

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Apparently I already need a new column for my spreadsheet. Houston boyz are showing the way. hehe BTW, you don't have to use PP if you don't want to.

[John in Houston]

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Houston boyz are showing the way.

Hey man... just sharing the love

[Redwood]

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Here are pics sent to the BMWCCA list of grass fire damage near the Mineral Wells airport.

http://www.moneyshift-racing.com/v/M...avId=x701f5117

[McCall]

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Heck, with all the grass ON the tarmac, a little fire might have helped clean the site up a bit

[hancheyb]

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Edit: My friend from Sunday School might come just to see how it all works. He said he'd bring his pimp daddy DSLR and rent a 400mm lens. I think it would be great to set up and take the exact same picture of each car in the same turn. Look at tire deflection, etc. CLOSE UP. hehe

[Shortcutsleeping]

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One of the neatest vids I have ever seen of an autocross was an old one that John Walsh (wow...haven't said THAT name in a while) did.

He put a camera inline with a slalom and took vid of each car for an entire autocross run group. Then he edited it to ONLY show the car as it rounded the first cone and thru to the last cone, then it jumped to the next car. It was probably 2.5 minutes of just slaloming and you could so easily see who stayed tight, the differences in two driver cars, etc.

It was sweet.


Costas

[John in Houston]

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He put a camera inline with a slalom and took vid of each car for an entire autocross run group.

With these NDA's, I volunteer your camera for the job