January 09th & 10th Practice/Championship Photos & Videos

[Tom Denham]

i enjoyed the bump,

[George Schilling]

i enjoyed the bump,

And I like popping pimples, too.

[Jack Tsou]

i enjoyed the bump,

What bumps??

[Steve Towers]

i enjoyed the bump,

I can just about guarantee you would not have enjoyed it in my car. Pretty nasty sideways hop - in a turn.

[Johnson Mac]

I thought I was the only one that caught air there lol. There was a point on saturday where I probably went out a few feet because of that.

[Dan Shaw]

Stills ... sample processed shots first: http://public.fotki.com/makofoto/2010-a ... -910-2010/



Remind me not to run that particular alignment again.... sheesh...

LOL. I think you should have a pretty good reminder after that day. Can't blame ya man...no bueno. Glad you got that sorted for next time!

[Dan Shaw]

i enjoyed the bump,

I can just about guarantee you would not have enjoyed it in my car. Pretty nasty sideways hop - in a turn.

I was working that section for a while and it seemed like if you stuck close to the inside you didn't bottom out. May have dipped a bit but it wasn't so nasty. People who went wide hit the bump the worst.

[Tom Denham]

i enjoyed the bump,

I can just about guarantee you would not have enjoyed it in my car. Pretty nasty sideways hop - in a turn.

See that was , the key use the bump to place the car.

[John Hernandez]

When are more photos from Sunday going up??

[Mako Koiwai]

Stills ... thanks for reminding me ... I've been dealing with uploading the video clips ... while trying to keep from getting in trouble at work. ;)

[Steve Glusman]

I liked both courses and after 0 deg weather in STL the prior week...I REALLY liked the weather!

Saturday I was reminded how giving up time to set up properly was a good investment...that came from my wife -- kind of.. the non-autocrosser..who told me my slaloms were sloppy. Sunday, I thought there was a trick to a few tight sweepers that I never really cracked the code on....

And the video super slo mo is always fun and edcational to watch.

Thanks Mako for the great weather and fun courses!

Steve G

[Mako Koiwai]

Thanks ... I'm especially proud of the weather.

[Mako Koiwai]

The rest of the stills are up: http://public.fotki.com/makofoto/2010-a ... -910-2010/

Ignore the weird color casts. Any photos ordered will be enlarged, cropped, color and density corrected.

Still lots of videos to upload. The Vimeo uploader isn't cooperating. Blip.TV limit is 50 files a day, Fotki and youTube only allow one upload at a time ... not very much fun when there are 100's of files.

Samsung is trying to tell me that that their camcorder DOES DO 300 frames per second, when it's clearly faster then the Casio EX-F1 that we were using before! I shot a clock with the Casio today. 10 seconds becomes 100 seconds of "screen time," when shot at 300 fps. The same 10 seconds with the Samsung = 50 seconds, which means it's only shooting at 150 fps ... as Pete immediately pointed out.

[Kurt Rahn]

I liked the course both ways, but I think I liked Sun. better, as it seemed like all the decreasing radius turns (which I sometimes overcook) from Sat. magically became increasing radius turns.

[Matt Ellam]

Nice pics! Thanks!

[Will Kalman]

I liked the course both ways, but I think I liked Sun. better, as it seemed like all the decreasing radius turns (which I sometimes overcook) from Sat. magically became increasing radius turns.

Those decreasing-radius turns are your friend in FWD. Use the (trail-braking) force!

[Kurt Rahn]

I liked the course both ways, but I think I liked Sun. better, as it seemed like all the decreasing radius turns (which I sometimes overcook) from Sat. magically became increasing radius turns.

Those decreasing-radius turns are your friend in FWD. Use the (trail-braking) force!

You missed last weekend. I'm co-driving Tom B's new second car, a 93 BMW 325i. One event and back to RWD.

[Marshall Grice]

Thanks ... I'm especially proud of the weather.

oh sure, just rub it in some more why don't you.

for the record, wichita is cold. :unimpressed:

[Kurt Rahn]

Thanks ... I'm especially proud of the weather.

oh sure, just rub it in some more why don't you.

for the record, wichita is cold. :unimpressed:

Yeah, I thought of you while wiping sweat off my brow this weekend

[Mako Koiwai]

Aren't you wasting your time in Wichita ... shouldn't you be in Lincoln? ;)

[Mako Koiwai]

Virtually all of Sunday's videos are up now ... mostly on Blip.TV: http://makofoto.blip.tv/

some on Vimeo ... see earlier link.

Will work on Saturday's clips next.

Please consider sending me a small donation if you feel you're getting some value from my work. Thanks ...

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[Mako Koiwai]

So my new used Samsung HD mini camcorder is definitely NOT producting 300 frame per second video ... "only" 150 fps. I'm going to sell that camcorder and eventually get the more useful Casio model.

[Theo O.]

Virtually all of Sunday's videos are up now ... mostly on Blip.TV: http://makofoto.blip.tv/

some on Vimeo ... see earlier link.

Will work on Saturday's clips next.

Please consider sending me a small donation if you feel you're getting some value from my work. Thanks ...

PayPal Send Money: http://tinyurl.com/ks23mn

use my email address makofoto at earthlink dot net

I enjoy donating to Mako we love the vids/pics. Just checking before I give up, I couldn't find any vid/pic of my car did I miss it? Black BMW #25, extremely dirty as pointed out by Tom Berry

[KJ Christopher]

Virtually all of Sunday's videos are up now ... mostly on Blip.TV: http://makofoto.blip.tv/

some on Vimeo ... see earlier link.

Will work on Saturday's clips next.

Please consider sending me a small donation if you feel you're getting some value from my work. Thanks ...

PayPal Send Money: http://tinyurl.com/ks23mn

use my email address makofoto at earthlink dot net

You've got paypal....

[Aaron Goldsmith]

Here ya go, Video from Sunday.


Anyone want to guess what mistake lost it for me?
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I cut the swearing out at the end of the full video.