Chike's official 2007 AutoX Blog thread (D-Stock)

[Chiketkd]

I competed in the 2nd WDCR points event this past Saturday on a course that was fast and flowing. My car was triple driven by myself, Shawn (I co-drove his STS2 miata previously) and his girlfriend Katie.

The car was handling very well and the tires held up perfectly to our constant driving. My new rear-end alignment feels awesome, and the back-end is easy to coax out with lift throttle or trail braking.

The class was very competitive with 15 drivers in total. I should have attacked the course more earlier and on my fourth and final run where things were starting to feel 'right' I tapped two cones in the slalom (still over drove 2-3 corners). Had that run been clean, I would have finished two spots higher and PAX'd 77th overall...

Final results were as follows:

'D Stock' - Total Entries: 15 Trophies: 3 Times Total Diff.
1T 37 Spector, Larry 2000 Acura Integra Type-R Black 66.816+1 68.091+1 66.294 66.802 66.294 -
2T 57 Arnold, Matthew 2003 Bmw 330I Blue 67.188 66.681 66.240+1 73.781 66.681 0.387
3T 12 Hoyer, Mike 2006 Subaru Wrx Black 66.793+2 67.007 66.763+2 66.839 66.839 0.158
4 70 Roberts, Shawn 2006 Subaru Wrx Grey 68.309+1 67.430 68.116 67.535 67.430 0.591
5 82 Pozner, Alan 2000 Acura Integra Type R Yellow 67.567 68.851 67.921 67.696+1 67.567 0.137
6 71 Staples, Curtis 2002 Bmw 330Ci Blue 68.630+1 70.059 67.962 68.143 67.962 0.395
7 80 Radford, Tommy 1994 Bmw 325Is Black 70.173+1 68.776+1 68.147+2 68.543 68.543 0.581
8 6 Arispe, Eduardo 2006 Subaru Wrx Blue 68.862 68.721 68.802 68.588 68.588 0.045
9 170 Dellimore, Chike 2006 Subaru Wrx Grey 70.850 69.437 69.424 68.283+2 69.424 0.836
10 46 Redington, Alex 2001 Audi S4 Black 72.915 73.011+3 72.035 71.079+5 72.035 2.611
11 13 Hogenkamp, Harry 2006 Subaru Wrx Wagon Black 74.074 73.065 72.519+1 72.814 72.814 0.779
12 24 Danneman, Randy 2005 Dodge Neon Srt-4 Acr White 76.920 75.365 74.775 73.596 73.596 0.782
13 111 Clark, Jim 2004 Subaru Forester Xt Black 78.990 75.411 75.242 74.042 74.042 0.446
14 113 Needle, Michael 2007 Subaru Impreza Wrx Tr Silver 80.264 77.802 77.034 76.687+1 77.034 2.992
15 124 Danneman, Dorinda 2005 Dodge Neon Srt-4 Acr White 85.925 83.865 83.034 82.049 82.049 5.015
Link to Results

Here's an in-car vid of the my colleague Mike Hoyer's (finished 3rd) fastest run: Vid

Summary:
9th out of 15 in D-Stock
104 out of 242 in PAX


Pics

Yours truly:


Matt's 330i (2nd in class):


Mike (3rd in class):


Spector (winner of DS):


Katie (in my car - finished 5th in the indexed ladies class):









Sam Strano took top PAX at the event and was 'stupid fast' in the F-Stock Shelby GT350 he's driving this season: