SCNAX Cup Report

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SCNAX Cup Report

Post by Mako Koiwai »

Let's use this thread for everyone to post their SCNAX Cup Photos :ibrightdea:

More of my photos here: http://public.fotki.com/makofoto/2009-a ... ax-cup-09/

... still processing and adding (will also add Leonard's and my shots from Sunday's race)
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Cone Queens ...
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Team NoFWD interfering with a Cone Queen
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Un Clean
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Eagle Eye
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Queens of Cones
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Mako has proven in his photos that I'm actually a descendant of chipmunks in that Queen of Cones pic!
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It was a huge surprise that an experienced team Won!

Here's Mako's surprise shortly after the announcement:
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Nice mirror mod on Ken's Kar... ;)
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Mako Koiwai wrote:Un Clean
No cones on that run Mako!

oh, you mean the driver...
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We were so sure we hadn't won anything (I accidentally left the traction control on, on the S2000 for what I thought was the crucial last run) that we were still loading up our cars ... until we realized we hadn't heard our team called ... and they were up to 3rd place. Just as we hustled up to the award ceremony, we heard that we had won!

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Such a fun day!! Lots of work for Lilly and Art (and I'm sure many others) but a great time was had by all. This was the first SCNAX cup that I've entered and I can't wait till next year's. Learning how to drive an unfamiliar car to the limit was quite a challenge. Plus, as Pete said making new friends and competing on so many different levels.

Thanks so much for putting on this event.

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Lily Liu wrote:Mako has proven in his photos that I'm actually a descendant of chipmunks in that Queen of Cones pic!
Not quite as hairy, one hopes!
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Super Fun weekend. Thank you Pete for making your cars available, and thank you Mako and Daniel for your soft index and great drives ! I had a Blast, most fun I've had in a while. BTW stop whining about my car being TOO stiff :p.
A big thank you to the organizers .. Art , Lilly , Mike, Seb (for being safety stuart) ... All SNAX members, sorry I suck at remembering names . :thumbup:

Let's do it agan soon ...
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screw up in the upload ... missing 20 shots ... will have to figure out which ones later:

http://public.fotki.com/makofoto/2009-a ... ax-cup-09/
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Mihai Surubariu wrote:Super Fun weekend. Thank you Pete for making your cars available, and thank you Mako and Daniel for your soft index and great drives ! I had a Blast, most fun I've had in a while. BTW stop whining about my car being TOO stiff :p.
A big thank you to the organizers .. Art , Lilly , Mike, Seb (for being safety stuart) ... All SNAX members, sorry I suck at remembering names . :thumbup:

Let's do it agan soon ...
I heard that your car was much better after the changes. A well informed course worker told me it looked really good on course. Lots of rotation on demand!
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Here are two pics from my team.

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Michael Palero wrote:It was a huge surprise that an experienced team Won!

Here's Mako's surprise shortly after the announcement:
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Congrats to Mako and his team for winning! Hats off to you guys. :D
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Let's not leave out the runner ups :oops:

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I had an awesome time in my first SCNAX cup. The team competition was so fun and also learning other people's car, especially the Palero's Hyundai. I wished I did not hit the cones after the finish by backed off just a little on my last run in his car. It could do 77sec laps times on Saturday, it surprised me!

The course was also fantastic, flowed really well.

Thank you all for organizing this event and Team Lugnuts for letting me join their team. Sorry we lost the cup this year :).
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Team Dueces Wild had a fun time. First to last. From the begining to the end.

I would have loved to see a Nobel, Ferrari, GTR, and GT3 team. Team big bucks! :mrgreen:

Looking forward to next year! If I get crappy PAX times it may just be me sand bagging. :unimpressed:
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To all those that didn't participate, you really missed a good time. I was asked, early in the week, by a fellow GP driver, "why are you doing this?" After listing several reasons (I'd like to drive some other cars, It would be nice to see what my car looks like from afar, I would like to know how fast I am or am not, etc) the final reason was because it should be fun.....what an understatement!

And Kurt, Leonard, QV and Adrian did have alot of fun driving the little red car. It started every time and ran all the runs with out a problem.... :gpower:

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I'm glad everyone had so much fun. We learned alot this year, not having Jason W. like in the past was difficult, but with those lessons learned next it will even be better.
We'll figure out how to get the scoring done quicker. I was thinking we could use the regular timing computers to help.
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Don's car was a BLAST, Thanks for letting me molest it! Thanks to SCNAX (Art, Lily) for providing such a fun event. :thumbup:
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awesome pictures! congrats again on winning.

And Don, if you want a codriver for any events in 2010, I'm available :). I had so much fun driving everyone's car & learning how to race a stick shift :oops: . I was amazed everyone had a good time in my car. Can't wait for next year!
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