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Friday night McCall, Duck and I (and Gene from work) played the Battleracer mod for a couple of hours - too much fun. AFTERBURNER! Then McCall and I went to see MIAMA VICE, which was great.
After a delayed morning Saturday, a bunch of us went to the under-attended Chevy Rev-it-Up Challenge, which was a BLAST. They had the Slowbalt SS Challenge + practice laps + skillz test driving + classroom sessions + karting (7 cars, oval track, a total BLAST) + up to 6 solo runs in a C6 automatic (the “paddle shifted” automatic transmission SUCKS) + hot course test drives in dozens of other SS cars and SUVs + a ride along in 505hp Z06 with a “pro driver”! Better than the Mazda events of the past few years, even if the Cobalt wasn’t exactly a supercar.
No free food at this event, but they had plenty of (warm) water to drink. The event took 4+ hours if you did all of the stuff, which of course we all did. Spent too much $, but it was worth it. The challenge itself was difficult (esp. for me!), as the course they had set-up offered a lot of blind sections, due to the elevation changes of Lone Star Park’s lot (man, what a nice facility for solo events). Teucci had the fastest time of our group, followed by McCall then Amy.
I am laughing about Duck FORGETTING about the event he PAID $65 to attend! Sorry Duck… Paul was "too sick to go" and he missed the ER event too. Who gets a cold in the summer??
After spending a couple hours looking at the new AST suspension products and swinging by the construction site, we met up at Cindi’s place and had an impromptu pool party and bar-b-q that went past midnight. Even Hanchey came by for a good long time!
Sunday morning was ER’s Pennington event – they had a pretty good course for Pennington and the event ran smoothly. Temps went from the low 80°F range all the way up to 102°F at days’ end – but a steady breeze helped considerably. The Vorshlag M3 managed 1st, 2nd and 4th in STU class (biggest class at the event) with me, Matteucci and Amy all driving in open class. 3 people running the same car in the same heat = challenging! The McCall’s also attended in their RX8, getting the last out of their Falkens.
Teucci did some suspension tuning on the M3 and got it handling a bit better, and had suggestions for even more improvement. Still not putting power down like it should, but at least it is turning in now. I ran the mic during 2 run groups and probably offended dozens of people: “Here’s Joe So-and-so, running xx.xxx, moving him from 5th to 8th place! Oh… sorry man.”
Amy’s best PAX run would have had 3rd in class wrapped up but she saved her fastest lap for when it counted – the money laps! You can't beat ER's RapidPAX competition – especially since we came home with pockets full of PAX cash.
Amy owned the ladies PAX to the tune of $40 cash, and Teucci and I got 13th and 11th for another $10 each. Picked up Cody’s E.R. year-end class championship jacket he didn’t know he won, too.
It was a helluva weekend.... so very tired.
After a delayed morning Saturday, a bunch of us went to the under-attended Chevy Rev-it-Up Challenge, which was a BLAST. They had the Slowbalt SS Challenge + practice laps + skillz test driving + classroom sessions + karting (7 cars, oval track, a total BLAST) + up to 6 solo runs in a C6 automatic (the “paddle shifted” automatic transmission SUCKS) + hot course test drives in dozens of other SS cars and SUVs + a ride along in 505hp Z06 with a “pro driver”! Better than the Mazda events of the past few years, even if the Cobalt wasn’t exactly a supercar.
No free food at this event, but they had plenty of (warm) water to drink. The event took 4+ hours if you did all of the stuff, which of course we all did. Spent too much $, but it was worth it. The challenge itself was difficult (esp. for me!), as the course they had set-up offered a lot of blind sections, due to the elevation changes of Lone Star Park’s lot (man, what a nice facility for solo events). Teucci had the fastest time of our group, followed by McCall then Amy.
I am laughing about Duck FORGETTING about the event he PAID $65 to attend! Sorry Duck… Paul was "too sick to go" and he missed the ER event too. Who gets a cold in the summer??
After spending a couple hours looking at the new AST suspension products and swinging by the construction site, we met up at Cindi’s place and had an impromptu pool party and bar-b-q that went past midnight. Even Hanchey came by for a good long time!
Sunday morning was ER’s Pennington event – they had a pretty good course for Pennington and the event ran smoothly. Temps went from the low 80°F range all the way up to 102°F at days’ end – but a steady breeze helped considerably. The Vorshlag M3 managed 1st, 2nd and 4th in STU class (biggest class at the event) with me, Matteucci and Amy all driving in open class. 3 people running the same car in the same heat = challenging! The McCall’s also attended in their RX8, getting the last out of their Falkens.
Teucci did some suspension tuning on the M3 and got it handling a bit better, and had suggestions for even more improvement. Still not putting power down like it should, but at least it is turning in now. I ran the mic during 2 run groups and probably offended dozens of people: “Here’s Joe So-and-so, running xx.xxx, moving him from 5th to 8th place! Oh… sorry man.”
Amy’s best PAX run would have had 3rd in class wrapped up but she saved her fastest lap for when it counted – the money laps! You can't beat ER's RapidPAX competition – especially since we came home with pockets full of PAX cash.
Amy owned the ladies PAX to the tune of $40 cash, and Teucci and I got 13th and 11th for another $10 each. Picked up Cody’s E.R. year-end class championship jacket he didn’t know he won, too.It was a helluva weekend.... so very tired.
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