9/4/05 SCCA @ FedEx Field!

[SVXRide]

Well, I'm starting to get the Bill-Stock Level II beast dialed in...still not exactly where I want it, but you can see how my times dropped from the 3rd to 4th run (cranked up the front Konis another 1/4 turn and dropped the front tire pressure 2 psi) - the car is almost neutral now. Can't wait for the 17th!

'G Stock' - Total Entries: 13 Trophies: 3 Times Total Diff.
1T 162 Garfield, Brian 2005 MINI Cooper S Black 60.009+OFF 60.629 60.347 60.226+1 60.347 -
2T 33 Sorensen, Kenny 2003 Toyota Celica GT Blue 62.941 63.363+1 62.289 61.967 61.967 1.620
3T 26 Shurie, Ronald 2002 Toyota Celica Black 63.069+4 63.070+1 63.225+1 63.406 63.406 1.439
4 107 Baker, Ian 1989 Honda CRX White 64.615 63.547 63.824 63.289+1 63.547 0.141
5 39 Evans, Paul 2002 MINI Cooper S Blue/White 64.238+OFF 63.904+1 63.386+OFF 64.494 64.494 0.947
6 7 Leier, Brad 2002 Ford Focus SVT Silver 65.859 64.665 65.161 64.117+1 64.665 0.171
7 41 Miller, Jonathan 2002 MINI Cooper S Dark Silver 67.473+1 65.392 65.147 65.223 65.147 0.482
8 34 Lemoine, Gene 1992 Nissan Sentra SE-R Gray 65.137+2 67.050+1 65.786 64.564+1 65.786 0.639
9 64 Newcomb, Craig 2005 Mini Cooper S Purple 68.778 67.025 67.951 66.823 66.823 1.037
10 19 Cutlip, William 1992 Subaru SVX black 70.753 69.336 69.202 68.143 68.143 1.320
11 97 Supik, Frank 1994 Ford Probe GT Silver 69.405 67.675+1 67.465+1 66.337+1 68.337 0.194
12 29 Sann, David 1997 Saturn SC2 Green 70.814 69.518 68.806 69.583 68.806 0.469
13 18 Wigney, Ben 2002 Acura RSX Silver 81.120 76.593+3 74.508 74.508 5.702

-Bill
p.s. no, they're not allowing Honda CRXs in GS...Ian Baker normally drives one in CSP, but its engine had problems so he was co-driving Brad Leier's Focus SVT (yeah, Ian is another one of the region's drivers that competes at the National level - so this gave us 5-6 drivers this month in GS that drive at the national level )

[Chiketkd]

Nice runs Bill. Was it a slow or high speed course? What gear did you end up running most of the course in?

Just trying to figure out what I should expect on the 17th...

-Chike

[SVXRide]

In the words of the course designer, this was a "highly technical" course - lots of slaloms feeding into sweepers. A lot of cars found themselves pointing the wrong way going into the sweeper at the bottom of the course
-Bill

[SVXRide]

'E Prepared' - Total Entries: 1 Trophies: 1 Times Total Diff.
1T 51 graham, chris 1971 datsun pl510 red 87.849+OFF 100.503 93.295+OFF 88.523 88.523


'E Street Prepared' - Total Entries: 6 Trophies: 2 Times Total Diff.
1T 15 Burdette, Brian 1995 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Patriot Red 61.552 60.400+2 60.826 59.820 59.820 -
2T 12 West, Joshua 1995 Ford Mustang Cobra Rio Red 64.330 62.029+OFF 62.556+1 62.244 62.244 2.424
3 68 Knowles, Phil 2002 Chevy Camaro SS victory red 65.807 62.446 83.987+OFF 63.162+1 62.446 0.202
4 112 Melvin, Michael 1995 Ford Mustang V6 Blue 70.343 63.381 62.985 62.985 0.539
5 119 Henri, Steven 1999 Chevy Camaro SS Black 77.746 68.584 67.528 67.528 4.543
6 27 woodson, dave 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse White 72.139 68.619 68.976 67.570 67.570 0.042

(and yeah, I "PAXed" in at 122 out of 234 drivers )
-Bill
p.s. Chike - 1st gear the entire course - which is another part of my still having to dial the car in...can you say throttle-on oversteer?
p.p.s Ben/Dave - you'd smoke the 510!! Note that the raw ESP times are almost the same as the raw GS times (Brian Burdette won ESP at Nationals last year, if memory serves me right ) Note: that Mustang Cobra is running 315/45 Hoosiers on all four corners!!!

[mikecg]

I ran at ATCO in Jersey. Maybe I need to come over there. We only had 3 cars in GS. The results are at

http://www.sjr-scca.org/soloii/SJRResults_20050904.html

I had a good time. It was my first. I took the 94L. I think I suprise the announcer with the tire smoke when I launched. I improved quiet a bit by the end. The 2nd and 3rd run were with a 280lb instructor in the car. 4th run I completely boned. I missed a gate, then completely lost it entering a corner coming off the short straight. I stayed in 1st gear he entire time.

I went to remodivate myself to work on the 240z. My father road along and helped out a little on the course. I got up the next morning and he's waiting on me to go work in the garage. I thing he's got the bug now.

[SVXRide]

Quote from the SCCA Novice Coordinator (none other than Mr. Brian Garfield...)

To everybody that mentioned this yesterday, there's a GOOD reason why most people were loose:

Many autocrossers tend to set their cars up to rotate (oversteer), at least
a little. The problem comes in when you have many transitions. You throw
the car one way, then the other, then the other. In normal situations,
there's only a couple of transitions and then you and your car have time to
recover. However, Sunday's course was probably 75-80% transitions,
particularly going all the way down the hill to the showcase turn and all
the way back up. So, once you get into the transitions, the car starts to
get loose, but because the whole down the hill WAS transitions, if you
didn't "give it up" to get back in line, the back end would continue to
"fishtail".

BTW, the reason some of you may think the course was very difficult, IMO,
was once again because of the transitions. Most drivers get "behind" in
transitions which will bite you in the butt, especially on a course that is
mostly transitions. You have to stay ahead, or on the back side of each key
cone in order to have room for error.
Oh, and if you are going to give up some speed to get back in line, try to
slow down while going as straight as possible, otherwise the back end will
keep coming around...

Lastly, the light colored asphalt IS slicker than the dark. The long
downhill transition part was mostly light colored...

Brian Garfield
WDCR SCCA Solo
Novice Coordinator

[SVXRide]

Found an email from someone who actually measured Sunday's course....

I measured the course w/ my trip odometer and I think it was just under 1
mile, something like 9 1/2 tenths. So w/ close to 60 second runs, we were
averaging pretty close to 60mph, faster in some areas, not to shabby. Even
when I look at the video, it STILL looks like a fast course.

-Bill (not at the 60mph point just yet....)

[Chiketkd]

Originally Posted by SVXRide

p.s. Chike - 1st gear the entire course - which is another part of my still having to dial the car in...can you say throttle-on oversteer?

Bill,

your last post which copied an e-mail said this was a pretty fast course where some people averaged 60mph throughout. You were able to do this in first gear only?

-Chike

[SVXRide]

Left it in 1st the entire course - the trans shifts up to 2nd when it has to...
-Bill

[Chiketkd]

Originally Posted by SVXRide

Left it in 1st the entire course - the trans shifts up to 2nd when it has to...
-Bill

okay. From your comment about leaving it in 1st, I wasn't sure if you meant the speed on the course never required an upshift to 2nd.

[SVXRide]

Team WTF? just posted this video on some of the "interesting" comments they made during their runs on the 4th. You can get a little feel for how difficult the course was in certain sections
-Bill

(it's a Quicktime video and you'll need the latest version to veiw it - free on Apple's website)

[Chiketkd]

Originally Posted by SVXRide

Team WTF? just posted this video on some of the "interesting" comments they made during their runs on the 4th. You can get a little feel for how difficult the course was in certain sections
-Bill

(it's a Quicktime video and you'll need the latest version to veiw it - free on Apple's website)

Nice. Team WTF drives an RX-8! Definitely seemed like a tricky course in places...

-Chike

[n00b on demand]

team WTF

[wawazat??]

Nice Bill!

So, G stock = B stock???

Todd (coming to Baltimore this weekend to get my next SVX!)

[Hocrest]

Originally Posted by wawazat??

Nice Bill!

So, G stock = B stock???

Todd (coming to Baltimore this weekend to get my next SVX!)

Postpone your trip for a week and come to the Subaru Challenge...