This past Saturday, I traveled to Cumberland airport to compete on Day 1 of the 2010 Pumpkin Carve event held each year by the National Road Rally club.
I drove Shawn's 2003 Mazdaspeed Protege that's set-up for G-stock. His car was on 3 year old V710's, but we were using the event to gauge the competitiveness of the car and whether we should run it next season.
Saturday's course was quite technical with a few sections that punished you if you came in too hot or didn't run a line that allowed you to open up the corner. A few parts were very fast and I found the MSP easy to drive at the limit even though this was my first time in the car. Never had a perfect run, but got something decent and clean on my 4th try and won my class by just over 4 seconds.
Summary:
1st out of 5 in class
8th out of 102 in PAX
'G Stock' - Total Entries: 5 Times Total
1 GS Chike Dellimore 03 Mazda Protégé 62.075+2 60.600+3 59.182+2 57.743 57.798+1 57.743 [-]
2 GS Jim Shultz 03 Audi A4 63.677 61.758 62.511 62.156 61.091+2 61.758 [4.015]
3 GS Darrel Imhoff 08 Civic Si Mugen 67.268+1 64.388+1 64.525 65.720+1 64.087 64.087 [2.329]
4 GS Ted Cumberland 93 Ford 70.961 65.869 66.780 64.654 64.125 64.125 [0.038]
5 GS Jacqueline Frostburg 09 Audi A3 71.964+1 69.586 67.337 67.303 65.596 65.596 [1.471]
I've come across no actions pics of the MSP on course, but here's a pic of the DC group talking next to the MSP in the parking lot!
Left to right: Shawn, Brian, myself and Katie