My co-driver and I competed at WDCR event #6 held on the Fedex Stadium A Lot. The course was heavy on transitions with several fast on-camber sweepers!
Our well worn set of V710's (now at 130 runs) were starting to give up the ghost, but are still far from cording. After a few more local events, we'll probably toss these as their grip is really falling off.
Another RX-8 competitor, Frank W., got a handle of the course early and completely dominated everyone in the class. He almost straight-timed A-stock and was only a few tenths off of Sam Strano. Shawn was 2nd in class while I took 3rd. Frank finished 6th in PAX, Shawn was 22nd and I was 32nd (out of 202 competitors).
Summary:
3rd of 6 in class
32nd of 202 in PAX
'B Stock'
Pos. # Driver Car Run1 Run2 Run3 Run4 Total Diff
1T 99 Weichold, Frank 2005 Mazda Rx8 Grey 46.800 45.886+1 45.699 45.859 45.699 0
2T 170 Roberts, Shawn 2006 Mazda Rx-8 Grey 47.535 47.170 47.177 46.591 46.591 0.892
3T 70 Dellimore, Chike 2006 Mazda Rx-8 Galaxy Grey 48.529 47.614 47.471 46.924 46.924 0.333
4 88 Wade, Dave 2004 Mazda Rx-8 Gray 47.418 47.328 47.229 53.230 47.229 0.305
5 11 Correa, Aaron 2003 Nissan 350Z Silver 52.521 51.622 50.743 51.414+DNF 50.743 3.514
6 111 Correa, Mike 2003 Nissan 350Z Silver 53.788 53.555 53.038 52.574+1 53.038 2.295
I still feel like I had a good day at the office, despite the third place finish. On my final run I had two major mistakes (one that caused the front end to slide for ~10ft) and still ended up with a 46.9 -- that run could easily have been 0.5-1 second faster.
P.S. Shawn and I leave for the Pro Finale and Solo Nationals in just over 1 week! I won't be updating this thread until we get back. My current goals are as follows:
Pro Finale -- Run faster in each round and finish within 1-1.5 seconds back from the winner of my class.
Solo Nationals -- Run fast & clean each day. Hopefully, when the dust settles, my consistency will pay off with a Top 20 finish in class.
Wish me luck folks!
