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My 1st (62.671+2) and 3rd (61.760) runs in S2:

http://youtu.be/riCRBh5Y-CU

STX 57.067

http://youtu.be/6331iDATR8k

Second run in S2: 64.292, good for about mid pack.

http://youtu.be/7PsQtHOKsuA

4th and fastest lap at 59.145 in CS2 (soon to be BS).

http://youtu.be/9vFLz-INiyc

Championship. BStreet C5 Corvette, ran in CST, group 3. 58.9

http://youtu.be/q_jGkSC_Qx4

Practice. 58.5

http://youtu.be/2-6yKBj0PfQ

Here is a vid of my 125cc KM Kart, run #4- raw time of 53.596 (better vid quality on this run)
My best was run #2- raw time of 53.071
I had a great weekend, super venue with excellently laid course, complete with nice people! Well done!
(I had some fuel starvation issues so if you hear some points where it sounds like I was doing something weird with the gas that's what it is)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWA9Dz01x1I

here is the video of my best run Sunday 63.5xx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZZy9627Kwk
or how to go slow in a corvette

bill

My kids are finally old enough to ride in a car (oddly, after autocrossing for half their life in karts!), so they came along in the STC Civic for some X runs....

Dane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mesEM2Yus44

Cyan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT5FTn610ng

Both kids were surprised by the braking and both thought the car turned harder than their kart (it doesn't!).

3rd and fastest run (57.567): http://youtu.be/Q_s5-4oSuuQ

STR Honda - 56.450

http://youtu.be/am5ZRqYdiGM

My fastest: 60.851
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS27EQhdYkE

Kenny's fastest: 60.617
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouasq6QiXlM

Time difference was 0.234

Fun course...just need to get used to not using physical elements as land marks when driving on an airfield lol. Got used to the Q LOL! Thanks for a fun event. Last run group literally drove off into the sunset!

It's great seeing others runs to tell where I could be faster.

This is my two fastest:
http://youtu.be/H971oMc0OpQ

And two that ended up un timed, but have some good almost spins...
http://youtu.be/8hkVOUi7EIQ

Leonard I never tried the left slalom line but I guess it worked for you!

Thanks to Kurt Rahn for designing and setting up a great course for us this last weekend. I had a blast!

Tom Berry wrote:Thanks to Kurt Rahn for designing and setting up a great course for us this last weekend. I had a blast!

I didn't like it when I walked it, but it drove much better than I thought and I enjoyed it. Well done Kurt.

Edit: Except the optional slalom. I'm not a fan of those as I think everyone should drive the same course.

Max Hayter wrote:Edit: Except the optional slalom. I'm not a fan of those as I think everyone should drive the same course.

+1

samuelbrownfield wrote: Leonard I never tried the left slalom line but I guess it worked for you!

lol. It was good to see on both Max's and Brian's videos that I wasn't the only one who thought the left would work. I took the right side on several instructor runs and it worked well on cars with either more power or didn't turn well.

Leonard Cachola wrote:

samuelbrownfield wrote: Leonard I never tried the left slalom line but I guess it worked for you!

lol. It was good to see on both Max's and Brian's videos that I wasn't the only one who thought the left would work. I took the right side on several instructor runs and it worked well on cars with either more power or didn't turn well.

I tried both lines as well. I compared the videos side by side, and saw that entering on the left had me faster through the slalom, but slower through the right and left turns afterward. Overall time in that section was about the same either way for me.

Brian Kelly wrote:I tried both lines as well. I compared the videos side by side, and saw that entering on the left had me faster through the slalom, but slower through the right and left turns afterward. Overall time in that section was about the same either way for me.

I know it was a wash on Saturday - tried both ways and came up with the same time. It just came down to personal preference.

Discussing which way to go, with people split, shows this was a true option. What car you drive, your driving style, being the factors to choose which way to go. I chose right, due to my big booty car. If I were in my STR MX5, I would have gone left. The exit was my deciding factor, seeing the entry had me going left, until I got to the exit, and changed my mind to right. The hard right, followed by the left right combo transitions, was the motivating factor on my choice. Going left would have made the right after the slalom very tough, in my chubby butt Corvette, which would lead to being behind through the next combination of corners.

Saturday was a push on which way to go, at least in my car. I tried both, times were about the same. Go left, struggle with the entry, but gain the exit. Go right, entry still not easy, and exit became an issue with my power and bulbous back side.

Max Hayter wrote:

Tom Berry wrote:Thanks to Kurt Rahn for designing and setting up a great course for us this last weekend. I had a blast!

I didn't like it when I walked it, but it drove much better than I thought and I enjoyed it. Well done Kurt.

Edit: Except the optional slalom. I'm not a fan of those as I think everyone should drive the same course.

Uh.... that's probably because you went the wrong way there Bucko!

Tom Berry wrote: Uh.... that's probably because you went the wrong way there Bucko!

Are you saying I would have outpaxed you if I had gone right?

Here is my best run in my 2005 Honda S2000 with a time of 60.537s:
http://youtu.be/v6FKbthCT8k

It was good for 4th place out of 15 drivers in S1.

Great event! Well done Kurt!

Max Hayter wrote:

Tom Berry wrote: Uh.... that's probably because you went the wrong way there Bucko!

Are you saying I would have outpaxed you if I had gone right?

I was working course when Max ran, he was much quicker when he went to the left. I tried both ways also and going left made the distance shorter and fewer cones to go around and the right after it was no problem. My slowest lap was going to the right. Every car that went through who tried the left side stuck with it after trying it, all of them tried the right side first. Max should show the video of his first lap so we can get a comparison.

I'm too embarrassed to show my first lap - it was bloody awful!