RX-8 guy drives a Subaru again...and loves it?!!! 
This past weekend was the first points event with my local SCCA club. I was the Event Chairman and did the course design:
Instead of driving my RX-8, I decided to keep things interesting throughout this season and drive different car(s) at BRR events. I co-drove with Martin, who was third in STU (last trophy spot) at the recently concluded Dixie National Tour. He's an exceptionally fast driver and I knew getting within 1 second of his best time would be a serious challenge as I'd be in an unfamiliar car & set-up. But it would give me a fast driver to chase and push me to drive my best!
Switching from my well-balanced low hp & low tq RX-8 to a turbocharged '06 STi making over 300whp & 300wtq was eye opening!!! The car ate straight-aways like they weren't there, and rotated wonderfully in tight corners. There was some mild push in the longer sweepers but it turned-in well and was easy to drive at the limit on the 245/40/17 RE-01R's.
There were 5 drivers in STU. Final results are shown below:
STU - Street Touring U Pax: 0.836
1t MARTIN KRIZ 2006 SUBARU WRX STI 43.433 FTP 36.310 0.000
2t CHIKE DELLIMORE 2006 SUBARU STI 44.394 0.961 37.113 0.803
3 TONY ANDREWS 2006 SUBARU WRX 46.123 2.690 38.559 2.249
4 JAMES KOINER 2005 SUBARU IMPREZA WRX STI 46.246 2.813 38.662 2.352
5 ADAM ZISA 2006 NISSAN 350Z BASE 52.629 9.196 43.998 7.688
Link:
http://www.brr-scca.org/03222009.htm
So I was 0.9 seconds back from Martin. What was also interesting was that Martin and I were 1st and 2nd overall in PAX at the event!
Summary:
2nd out of 5 in class
2nd out of 55 in PAX
VIDEO:
Martin's best run (43.433):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6dxtjBGykY
Chike's best run (44.394):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU5v5_mFSto
A few pics from the event follow:
ESP Camaro - this guy was fast (4th in PAX)!
ASP C6 Z06 - this guy took FTD (3rd in PAX)!
Yours truly (2nd in PAX)
Martin (FTP)
