mpg?

 

I'm tired, gimme a break >_>

 

Just accidently stumbled upon an awesome picture of the Packwood site:

 

Portland International Raceway:

 

So that Rotus was back:



Then there was a SS Camaro... but they didn't run!


But uh, the course today.. they gave us a 3rd gear straigt-away. I was crossing the lights at 80.



Best part about today? All of the fast people were in packwood, so I kinda cleaned up. I was 7th fastest indexed time for the day... didn't see raw time but I was in a similar spot. There were 2 gates in the middle of the course that if you got them wrong added a good 2 seconds to your time because you came into the 2nd one too hot and then had to wait another 50ft to open up for that straight.

 

was it death hot out there?

 

Not at all actually, 82 at the peak and there was a nice breeze. I overheated my rear tires once, however the rest of the day was perfect.

 

It was death hot on Sat at the family day. My left side is burnt cherry red.

 

Remember the guy with Blue Tiburon, Gavin? We did Fun Runs at the end of the day and I took him along for one. I beat my best time from the official run by .1 seconds. With how fast the last straight was, I was hard on the brakes after the lights, into the ABS. His quote was something like "I need your brakes in my life. Seriously, I need an RX-8". When I told him you can pick up an 04 for $12k... well... We're pretty likely to have a new forum member in the near future, especially after watching another Tiburon blow a head gasket today.

 

Wow, sounded like a really fun day. that's one thing I really like about the BSCC better than the SSCA. They seem to have faster courses. I wish I could have made it. Thanks for the report.

 

Apparently the course was so fast it wasn't SCCA legal.

 

Wow sounds like you guys had a great time as well as great weather.

 

? when was there a tiburon out there?

 

There are 3 or 4 of them that consistently show up at the BSCC events, then a couple of them show at the SCCA events too. You've probably talked with Gavin and don't realize it, he's a tall, lanky African-American who works for MS as a game tester and he works the Grid a lot.

 

i think tiburons are invisible to me.

 

They were certainly 3-5 seconds slower than me this weekend

This course did something interesting, it both started and ended on the runway and used both cross-overs. It let the timing trailer be right next to the grid and spectators, it worked out really well. When we do events, we should totally set it up that way

 

I finally have this weekend free and didn't see any events on nwr-scca or bscc or alfa club. Anyone know if there is anything scheduled in the area this weekend?

 

I just caught this. Its Portland not Pacific.

 

track day tomorrow with alfa. that's all i know of at the moment. maybe tankerg knows of a proformance school?

huh, you're right. google lied to me..

 

Oregon region has an AutoX @ PIR. Were it at Packwood I'd say it's worth it but driving all the way to PIR and not hitting the track? I don't think so. Bremerton is all drag racing this weekend.

NWR SCCA is on a nearly a month long break, BSCC's next event is a member day on Friday, August 7th, Chuckanut is done for the year (wtf 6 event series?), WWSCC's idle until August 8th, Torque Steerer's don't have much info on their page... not even Boeing has an event this weekend...

We should have a BBQ!

 

Thanks guys. I saw the alfa day tomorrow but I just got back from a long weekend and can't take the day off.

 

There are two events next week at proformance. Monday is an afternoon lapping session, and then Tuesday the 28th is an all day lapping at PR.

Click on Schedule to bring up their schedule.

http://www.proformanceracingschool.com/


edit: there is also a high performance school on Monday if it's not too late to enroll

 

are you going to any more of them?

 

I'll be going to the one on Wed. August 26th. I should be able to do the whole day then. I was only able to do the half day yesterday.

 

On my last session with my instructor, ( i drove a half hour of an hour session(they combined the two groups for the last session)) he asked to drive my car to show me how to correctly take some of the turns I was having problems with. Besides showing me the corners his overall speed was so much greater (he also took third overall in the Pro 3 division in 2008. I don't know if that was regional or national.) He was gaining on BMWs that I couldn't dream of catching. He explained that on the straights the HP isn't there but in the cornering we can go so much faster, which I think we all know, but to experience what the car can do was incredible. I have so much learning to do =)