CA Speedway Time Trials ...

[Mako Koiwai]

Day One:

Our CSCC drivers kicked butt ... taking three of the four top spots in Saturday's Time Trails. A race prepped C4 was I believe 2nd ... Pete L ... took top honors. KJ was third ... after taking off his rear wing and there by gaining 8 mph going into Nascar One banked corner. Karen was fourth ... taking 6 seconds off of her Instructors top time!

[Mako Koiwai]

Guess who's Faster? A CSCC Auto Crosser in a NB MIata, or a (poorly driven) GT40 (on street tires)?!

[Mako Koiwai]

Karen pulling away from the gorgeous replica GT40

[Mako Koiwai]

Our Sports Car editor/racer Philip R ... got his first Podium with his ITA Miata.

[Mako Koiwai]

Pete just before passing the very loud and quick race C4

[Mako Koiwai]

KJ beat Pete to the Finish Line, after Pete spun. KJ gained 8 mph down the main straight after PULLING HIS WING !

[Mako Koiwai]

These guys had so much fun, I don't know if they'll be back to AX!

[Mark DeShon]

Looks like a blast! One day I'll make it out with my 100 horsepower of fury! haha.... Congrats to all. Thanks for representin'.
Mark D.

[Max Hayter]

Crikey - that looks like fun. When's the next one?!

[Theo O.]

That's looks like a blast

Nothing like track events. Can't wait for my events in the summer. It's getting harder to have enough budget for both AutoX and Track days ;)

Anyways, the rest of us CSCC folks went down to have fun with the San Diego folks yesterday, fun was had by all.

Pictures courtesy of Agent Smith http://picasaweb.google.com/whiterice1/ ... ionshipSD#

[John Edwards]

"Anyways, the rest of us CSCC folks went down to have fun with the San Diego folks yesterday, fun was had by all."

Always a lot of fun to run in San Diego, next best thing to a track event because the courses are always fast . The Fiat ran well, in the 51 second range, couldn't get any lower because of the open rear end :barf:, but still a lot of fun ! Here's a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL-VW3T64tE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
There are a few more from this event on my YouTube site.

[Pete Loney]

KJ beat Pete to the Finish Line, after Pete spun. KJ gained 8 mph down the main straight after PULLING HIS WING !

Yup. I got greedy after that silver vette let me by, open track at that point. The silver vette then broke a rear half shaft 2 turns after my pass.

In post analysis, my tires were not as grippy that third and final session due to excessive OPR.
Had a power exit rear come around issue. Luckily in a perfect spot with no traffic. Whew....

Just got done scraping those tires.... A full large size dust pan's worth of OPR.

Overall, a great experience. I elected for only one of the two days.

KJ, myself, and two other corvettes could of used our own run group.
The third and last session on sat. KJ nor I got a non-traffic/issue(spin) lap on the time sheet.
Lots of slowWW cars that we kept catching up to. 18 total.

Never thought I would be passing the replica GT40 going into the day. Passed him each session.

[Jayson Woodruff]

What tires did you guys use?

Yeah I don't think AutoX wings and spoilers are a good idea for top speed

Jay W

[Mako Koiwai]

Pete: Hoosiers I believe
KJ: Z1's
Karen: old 710's, freshened up with lot of new OPR

[Jason Isley BS RX8]

Don't get fooled by OPR after a track session... Most of the time this pickup occurs during the cool down lap. If you are getting OPR during the session you are doing one of two things wrong: you are driving off line, or you are driving to slow to burn it off.

[Pete Loney]

Pete: Hoosiers I believe
KJ: Z1's
Karen: old 710's, freshened up with lot of new OPR

A6 Hoosiers about 30%- 40% tread left.

In the hottest session of the day, they got a little greasy on corner exit a few times. Once enough to spin ever so slowly, luckily without anyone around and lots of hard surface too.

Next time, I'll check them out between session more closely.

[Will Kalman]

Once enough to spin ever so slowly, luckily without anyone around and lots of hard horizontal surface too.

Fixed that for ya ;)

[Oli Thordarson]

It looked like you guys sure did have a lot of fun! Maybe next time I will join you all.

Saturday Results:
http://www.mylaps.com/results/showrun.jsp?id=1546229" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sunday Results:
http://www.mylaps.com/results/showrun.jsp?id=1546232" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Jonathan Lugod]

What tires did you guys use?

Yeah I don't think AutoX wings and spoilers are a good idea for top speed

Jay W

what do you mean? these wings and spoilers arent supposed to be effective at solo speeds

apparently KJ's wing works too well at a real track environment

[Pete Loney]

It looked like you guys sure did have a lot of fun! Maybe next time I will join you all.

Saturday Results:
http://www.mylaps.com/results/showrun.jsp?id=1546229" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sunday Results:
http://www.mylaps.com/results/showrun.jsp?id=1546232" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

thanks for the link!

Session 2 was my best time with a 2:02
looks like real prepped t3 cars run in the 1:56 range

[Mako Koiwai]

Karen worked her way down from 2:22 to 2:12.X ... only 1.5 seconds off of Philip R's time in her Miata. He reeled off three 2:11's doing Instruction runs with her. Karen's best top speed going into Nascar 1 ... the first big banked corner was 104 mph ... 20 mph slower then KJ's RX8 ...

Spec Miata lap record is about 2 flat

[Mako Koiwai]

PHOTOS from the Time Trials weekend: http://public.fotki.com/makofoto/2010-a ... scc-time-/

KJ's "new" exhaust cracked ... I believe causing the end pipe to shift, leading to a melt down:

[Max Hayter]

Oh noes!!

[Mako Koiwai]

The Oldest SCCA Racer ... 94 year old Tom E !!!

[Vincent Wong]

That certainly looks like fun. Hopefully I will join you guys in a future event.

Just curious, was there any obstacles just before NASCAR 1 to slow down the cars? I've seen other organizations do it, just not sure if SCCA would do it too for the time trial group. Anyway, I wanted to go with my 335i because I wanted to see if the Dunlop tires alone will improve my lap time (and hopefully matching my S4 time). I did a 2:01.9xx in the 335i on stock Michelin RFTs, and a 1:59.0xx in the S4 on stock Dunlops last November.