I competed in the Pro Class with the Triad Sports Car Club at the Danville airport over the weekend. Temps hoovered in the low to mid 90's and the track temp was well over 120F. Competing in the class was multi-time national champ GH Sharp, James Feinburg (finished 2nd in STS2 in '05), Scott Sawyer (5th in STS2 in '06), Pat Griffith (2nd in the FS Pro Finale in '06), Karen Kraus, Bret Shillock, Justin Barbry and a host of other top regional/national drivers.
These were the course stats, video and a GPS map posted by James Feinburg for his fastest run:
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Originally Posted by JamesFeinberg
GPS Course Map:
Course Stats from my best run of 69.4 (video link):
Course Length: 0.77 miles
Average Speed: 39.9mph
Top Speed: 61.4 (limit of 2nd gear-- you can hear me banging of the rev limiter in the video)
Max Lateral g's: ~1.1
Max g's under acceleration: 0.48 g's (this occurs at the start of the run in 1st gear)
Max g's under braking: 0.74 g's |
I was slow getting started, and the course was a fast one with sections where I was hitting 62-63mph. However, there were slow sections which you had to be patient on. I was turning 75 and 74 second runs, before putting it all together and running a 73.0 on my last run.
Final results in Pro were as follows:
'Pro' - Total Entries: 13 Trophies: 4 Times PAX Ranking
1T gs 64 GH Sharp 1:09.602 0:55.890
2T sts2 68 James Feinberg Honda CRX 1:09.401 0:55.937
3T ds 57 Kieth Vail underdog crossfire 1:10.551 0:56.723
4T sts 49 Eric Sienkiewicz Acura Integra 1:10.706 0:56.918
5 ds 06 Karen Kraus Subaru WRX 1:12.056 0:57.933
6 fs 48 Pat Griffith Chevy Camaro 1:10.020+1 0:58.264
7 ds 106 Justin Rest Subaru WRX 1:12.637 0:58.400
8 ds 8 Bret Shillock Acura Integra Type R 1:12.730 0:58.474
9 ds 170 Chike Dellimore Subaru WRX 1:13.080 0:58.756
10 sts 13 Justin Barbry Brandon's Suuuubbaaaarrrruuuuuu 1:13.063 0:58.815
11 bsp 20 Michael Bright Nissan 350z 1:09.626 0:59.391
12 dsp 72 Anthony Hodges neon 1:11.306 0:59.611
13 es 23 Scott Sawyer Mazda Miata 1:13.656 0:59.808
http://www.auto-x.com/results/2007/d....27.07_fin.htm
Summary:
9th of of 13 in Pro
14th out of 106 in PAX
Pictures from the event (courtesy Tom Deady):
Yours truly:
James Feinburg:
GH Sharp:
Karen Kraus:
Keith Vail:
Pat Griffith:
