2009 Washington DC ProSolo
Fed Ex Field
06/20/2009 - 06/21/2009

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Shawn and I will b there in BS along with Katie in L1.

 

Good luck Chike and also to Shawn and Katie. Liam will be there with a co-driver. Looks like a lot of competition.

 

Thanks Keith. The DC Pro will definitely have lots of competition in our class. Hopefully things will stay dry...

 

Good luck to you and Shawn, Chike.

 

Thanks Nick. Looking forward to another great weekend with friends...with some healthy competition on the side!

 

As my co-driver put it, the weather looks like it could be a crapshoot this weekend. Should make for some interesting results...

 

just make sure you're leading after each heat and the weather is a non-issue! ;-)

 

Sure no problem why is it that I never think of the simple answers??

 

Congrats to Ruggles on the win!

Results: http://www.scca.com/documents/resultfiles/Sunday2.pdf

It was definitely a rough weekend for our class with only one dry session...

 

Chike;
Sounds like a tuff weekend. Looks like you and Shaw where VERY close (0.077).

 

Thanks Keith. Liam had some awful luck with cones this weekend, but I was very impressed with Joe's driving in the 350Z Nismo. He and Liam are talking about co-driving @ Nats. They've already won 2 free hoosiers between the two of them.

 

Saturday afternoon must have been the dry heat.From results it looked like a short(one heat) but fierce race.Congrats to all.
Whats with the huge( 2 plus second ) difference in the left and right side times?

 

You are correct, it rained Sat morning and Sunday morning, leaving Sat afternoon the only dry runs. The courses were mirrored on paper, but the lot shape there makes a true mirrored course difficult. There was a long downhill sweeper in the middle that was tighter on the left than the right by a good bit. The slower sweepers at the finish were of a shorter distance on the right, prolly contributing to the time disparity.

Very typical Piccione course, where you feel like you are hauling *** yet still in second gear. Methinks the Z may get up the hill there a bit quicker, but the 8 gets down quicker....who knows, toss up?

Some really impressive drives: Liam and Joe proving the Z is not out of the running, Chike showing that his newfound aggression in Finger Lakes was not a fluke (too bad it was in the wet on Sunday ) , Fossum proving to be consistent and fast, and Travis Hill (my Kryptonite) proving that if given the chance, he can pull out a flyer.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Toledo!

JR

 

Nice job Jay! Definitely pulled out the fast runs when it counted. I think everyone (including Jay) was dissapointed we didn't get a chance to battle it out on Sunday, but at least we all got the same chances on Saturday afternoon.

Who let this guy drive an 8 anyway?

Jim

 

<--- Needs to work on his lights. I lost all my right side time to the other RX-8's at the tree. Also lost my good dry left side run to a RL (IIRC it was well into the 33's even if I had run a .6-.7 light.)

 

Ha ha. Did you see my reaction times and 60fts? I think my reaction times were in the 0.8 range with 60fts in the 2.6-2.7 range. I shudder to think how much time I was leaving out there.

These are the only pics I've come across for the event courtesy of Marnie from the Finger Lakes region: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marnie/...7620193030499/

Only a couple BS cars were snapped:

Ruggles


Joe