Bremerton out here has a ditch maybe 10ft off the course at one end of the taxiway. It eats 1 or 2 cars a year but that's across all of the clubs that use it (which is a lot! SCCA uses it for time trials and club races too...). Every course designer out here is hyper aware of the ditch and works to keep the transitions around it to a sane speed.

You can't stop people from being stupid though, and both time's I've seen someone go in that was exactly what did it, drive like an asshat.

 

Man, I've been going through Packwood withdrawl... I think the last event there I was able to make it to was September!

It's such an awesome venue compared to all the others available locally these days... crazy camber, little to no off-course hazards to worry about (except the occasional deer?), amazing mountain views, indoor pits, awesome echos from the buildings, trees and mountains, and it's never very crowded since it's out in the middle of nowhere... though being out in the middle of nowhere is kind of a bummer too, I have to leave my house by 5:45am to make it in time for morning registration.

 

Thanks, Chike. We have two back-to-back Packwood events, this weekend and next weekend, which is a NWR pro/solo II pairing. That event will be interesting since at the first NWR event earlier this year, Karl won NS5 (basically, STX & STU combined with PAX) in his Sharkaru. Hopefully he does as well in the RX-Snake.

After that, one weekend off and then the back-to-back Wendover events. Gettin' lots of seat time!

Anijo, are you going to either of the Packwood events this month?

 

Whoohoo! Took 1st place in SM this weekend. As usual, not STX but hey I still did good enough, right? Pics and videos and all on my blog, not going flood this thread with goodies.

 

2 different RX8s tied down to and including the thousandth at the NE Ohio SCCA Solo for first place STX yesterday:

 

We had one go off in the trees yesterday An old supercharged Alpha, very awesome car and guy. Sad to see it happen.
The tranny locked up and instant spin. It was in setting up for a slolom and pretty straight 35-40 mph. Both rear tires locked up and into trees about 50 ft from where the line. Did a good bit of damage.

 

Ouch.. That sucks to hear. :/

Hey Doc, congrats on the win man, thats awesome. Any pics or video footage? :D

 

What is that, a Belgian White? Celis perhaps? Looks yum.

And to make this comment applicable to this thread: A student of mine had an STX prepped RX8 at the autocross school this weekend, and holy smokes does it transition like lightning. I see why you guys do this...

 

Oh yeah? Where abouts? There was a school on Saturday actually over here in MA that I let my co-driver attend with my car.

 

Street Mod? What other cars showed up in class?

(That's not a slight of your 1st place accomplishment - just curious.)

 

Detroit SCCA. It's awkward when your students drive as well as you do.

 

lol Thats true. That's cool though, Detroit huh? Should have taken some pics! Would have loved to see that STX RX8.

KJ, We usually have a really angry Nissan 240 SX with 350 WHP show up with a gigantic wing (won Nationals last year in SM) but they blew their engine first event, so it was against the same drivers, one in a G35, the other in his black Evolution, there was a WRX, a new Camaro, and a few other cars that I honestly can't remember. Soon as the results are posted I'll update this post or something.

Keep in mind too, my car has a lot of work done to it as well..all that needs to improve is driver skill.

 

A Z did not win SM at Natls last year.

 

Z..? 240 SX, not a Z.

http://www.scca.com/documents/Solo_R...solo_rules.pdf

Page 325, David White who is the Co-Driver with PJ (who owns the car actually). Unless I'm supposed to say something else? I'm just asking because I was accidently calling Divisionals a "Divisional Nationals" by accident before, so I could just be saying the wrong thing again. My mistake if so!

 

Not saying the wrong thing, you just have the wrong event, that is not the Solo Natls. At Natls the 240 (not a Z ) was 4th, just over 3secs back from Simanyi in the M3. And fwiw the top three cars/drivers from natls did not run SM at the Pro Solo Finale, where the 240 won.

 

Ooooooh gotcha. So then whats the different between Solo Nationals and Pro Solo Finale then...?

 

I was actually elbow deep in the nationals SM winning M3 yesterday.... The pro-finale is an entirely different series. two courses, christmas tree starts.

Are you on street tires or is that an old pic or optical illusion on my monitor?

 

He's on Star Specs

 

Yeah I'm on street tires. I'm one of those stubborn/firm believers in that I won't really benefit from R comps until I'm at the level that I'm pushing the car to the limits on street tires. Again, that's just me though.

BTW KJ, when you say elbow deep..do you mean driving in it..or..? Just confused. And didn't know that about the pro-finale, thanks about that. So I guess is one technically better/harder/more honorable than the other or no? Just trying to get an idea of the whole thing essentially.

 

www.scca.com

Go look it up marc

 

lol I was on there for hours last night reading the damn rule book, give me a break. :P I have to fix two minor things so I can stay in SM apparently :/

 

The owner and I were pulling the dash out. PITA.

 

Ooooh. Yeah that sounds it man. What was the problem, or was he upgrading something?

 

Just moving the ECU.

 

We had our first Regional ProSolo in the rain today.

This was my first time at a Pro Solo or doing a drag start in general. As such, I'm not embarrassed to say that yes, my reaction times sucked, generally around 1.1 seconds compared to Arrrrx-8's 550-600ms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3s8ugZ0k3Q

I love Packwood's indoor Pits!



NS5 Grid (You can just see my 8, then Arrrrrx-8's is on the left):



Mod cars rock: