Competed in the WDCR event #3 this past Sunday. I would have updated things sooner, but I wanted to wait on the Team WTF?! pics, but none have appeared as of this morning...
The course was a relatively fast, speed maintenance design which favors a car like the RX-8:
Prior to this event, I drilled new holes in my stock FSB that moved the endlink attachment point up a 1/2" per side (common mod done by RX-8 owners). The top part of the endlink needs to be held in place with an allen key, and my dumb butt forgot to do this when tightening things down afterwards. As a result, the endlink bolts came loose during our runs, causing us to effectively have a softer-than-stock FSB. This resulted in some uncharacteristic 'push' at the limit which limited corner exit speed at the sweepers by poles #52, 31 (bottom of the hill) & 51.
I ended up 0.25 seconds back from 1st place...but in 4th position. My co-driver finished 5th.
Final results were as follows:
'B Stock'
Pos. # Driver Car Run1 Run2 Run3 Run4 Total Diff
1 98 Wade, Dave 2004 Mazda Rx-8 Green 58.342+1 58.134 58.755 57.762 57.762 0
2 198 Barber, Steve 2004 Mazda Rx-8 Green 59.762 59.196 59.103 57.810 57.810 0.048
3 99 Weichold, Frank 2005 Mazda Rx8 Grey 58.671 65.498 58.348 57.870 57.870 0.060
4 70 Dellimore, Chike 2006 Mazda Rx-8 Galaxy Grey 58.721+1 58.968 58.441+1 58.008 58.008 0.138
5 170 Roberts, Shawn 2006 Mazda Rx-8 Grey 59.081+2 59.384 58.539 58.698 58.539 0.531
6 77 Wise, John 2004 Mazda Rx-8 Yellow 74.293+DNF 69.268 67.627+DNF 65.935 65.935 7.396
Summary:
4th out of 6 in class
32nd out of 252 in PAX
Next up is the DC Pro Solo on 6/21-6/22!
