With 9" wheels, street tires, and an AP you have many choices. Both the local SCCA and WWSCC classing structure combine similar classes together and "PAX" the times. Here are the pax values for all the classes. http://www.scca-chicago.com/solo/indexes/rtp2009.html Your time gets multiplied by the pax value for your class, and this is your time for scoring.


In SCCA your options are:
Novice - for one or two more events, I'm not sure how many you've done so far but generally they expect you to move onto your real class after 3 events or you win the novice class. I don't think they have a novice class for the pro-solo so you'll have to pick either (T) or (NS4) if you decide to go.

Street tire class (T) using the BSP pax index value.

Non stock 4 (NS4) using the STX pax index value. - this is the class I run and probably the best fit for RX8's with simple bolt on mods.

Time only am or pm (TOAM) and (TOPM)



In WWSCC your options are:
Novice - same as above

Street tire - non-stock (ST2) using the BSP pax index value.

Street tire - touring (ST3) using the STX pax value. - this is the class I run and probably the best fit for RX8's with simple bolt on mods.

Time only am or pm (TOAM) and (TOPM)



In BSCC your options are:
Novice - I believe you can run here all year.

Street tire (T) using the BSP pax index value.

Sports B (SB) - straight up time, no pax value. This is the class I'm running even though its a race tire class, seems to be the best fit. But its a toss up between this and street tire.

Time only am or pm (TOAM) and (TOPM)

 

Well I'm signed up for Sundays race on the 17th in packwood. I'll be running both AM and PM this time. Who's all going?

 

Definitely going Sunday, still wavering on Saturday.

 

Thats cause Sat your coming over to learn how to install struts.

 

 

Sorry guys I 'm not going to be able to make it on Sunday. Have fun.

 

LoL! Thats going to be such a classic line. Makes me laugh every time.

 

reg'd for monday's autox. where's the signup for sunday?

 

It'll probably show up on Mon since they have their event today to avoid confusion.

 

Oh man, what a wild grid there was today! I took 2nd in NOVAM as my last Novice finish ever for SCCA... I was 1.5 seconds faster than 1st but I hit a cone, my only one for the morning. Afternoon my tires were overheating and I was all over the place. I ended up faster than the morning but I was sideways enough that a couple people asked me afterwards if I'd been yelled at for drifting


All of my pictures are here: http://pics.dpsubs.org/Packwood_5-17-2009/
Highlights:

The Maxima was back but he broke it today. Something in his front suspension popped out and he started hearing grinding noises. Caused a bunch of reruns behind him in the afternoon.


It was a big grid but we still got 4 runs both AM and PM


And we have a new addition to the known family of F-Mod cars running in local SCCA:


I got to talk to the two guys driving it a lot because I was next to them in grid for the afternoon. It has a 3 gallon gas tank and it only got 4 runs before they had to refill it! I don't think we can complain anymore... <1mpg... Still, it was a two-stroke running 110 octane. They're given a very short list of engines they can run and a maximum tire size/width but I think the body is up to them.


Just a cool shot. Even noobs can take good photos if they shoot enough


Aaaand then there was this ******. He was putting in really good runs and... that thing is super charged.

 

Oh! I also hit a ******* bird on the way there. It glanced off my bumper on the passenger side right near the corner, left some nasty crap behind... it was pretty gross.

 

^ like kris did!

 

I think his got stuck in the grill though, mine just bounced off the bumper

 

You didnt try to go pick it back up? You could have been a Beverly Hillbillies. Whats up Jed Clampett

 

I was going ~60 and there was no shoulder so I was a couple corners away when I got out to check.

 

pics?!?

 

I didn't take any of the smudge... I missed a lot of stuff actually. Like I didn't take pics of the bonkers mid 90's corvette with the gigantic freaking wing, or of the pull cord start on the F-Mod car next to me, or the decently hot chick in front of me with the speed3... I just need to take a helmet came to these things that takes pics every 10 seconds.

 

haha yes!

can someone point me in the right direction for the sunday school signup?

 

Well, someone took care of the vette for me:

 

Well, the novice school is full: http://bscc.net/component/option,com...iew/extid,125/

 

anyone here goes to autocross tmr???
i'm plannning to go to just see what it's like!

 

i'll be at the bremerton event, yeah.

 

cool i'll see u there then!

 

If anyone who's coming has a spray bottle (think pump-up canister with hand sprayer connected by a cord) bring it! Definitely overheated my tires again this afternoon.

We have a new winner of the "Most absurd car at an autocross"





This car was beyond insane. It was in XP too... with that stripped Focus and another stripped civic.

 

do you have one? we'd only need one bottle for the group