GRA Championship Pics and Vids (10.24.10)

[Greg Dennis]

THIS... could be the greatest autocross picture ever. Theo, in this shot, you have demonstrated PERFECTLY how we all feel when we hit a cone. GREAT shot Mako.. GREAT FACE THEO!

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Great shot Mako

I knew the finish was "different" but still under estimate the stopping distance on my first run. Then I chickend out the rest of my runs :unimpressed:

I was certain that I did another $300 damage like the last time I dead center a cone like that and distroyed the auxiliary fan (their is nothing auxiliary about it, the car overheats without it, and take out the plastic coolant expansion tank ... lol). Ya, i thought about all of those things during that 1 second

I used to drive an E46 M3, and that's the EXACT same face I used to make when my mechanic handed me my repair bill. So, I understand.

[Rick Brown]

THIS... could be the greatest autocross picture ever. Theo, in this shot, you have demonstrated PERFECTLY how we all feel when we hit a cone. GREAT shot Mako.. GREAT FACE THEO!

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Great shot Mako

I knew the finish was "different" but still under estimate the stopping distance on my first run. Then I chickend out the rest of my runs :unimpressed:

I was certain that I did another $300 damage like the last time I dead center a cone like that and distroyed the auxiliary fan (their is nothing auxiliary about it, the car overheats without it, and take out the plastic coolant expansion tank ... lol). Ya, i thought about all of those things during that 1 second

You just need to sharpen that leading edge so you can slice the cone right off like Katy did in Mike's car.

[Giovanni Jaramillo]

I used to drive an E46 M3, and that's the EXACT same face I used to make when my mechanic handed me my repair bill. So, I understand.

Oh I know the feeling Here's mine on Sunday:

Slight counter-steer going into the right-handed sweeper from the downhill - IMAGE

[Greg Dennis]

I used to drive an E46 M3, and that's the EXACT same face I used to make when my mechanic handed me my repair bill. So, I understand.

Oh I know the feeling Here's mine on Sunday:

Slight counter-steer going into the right-handed sweeper from the downhill - IMAGE

Awesome car. Timeless looks, incredible top end, instant throttle response, and an awesome raspy sound. One of the best I've had the pleasure of owning.

[Doug Kott]

THIS... could be the greatest autocross picture ever. Theo, in this shot, you have demonstrated PERFECTLY how we all feel when we hit a cone. GREAT shot Mako.. GREAT FACE THEO!

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That's what my faced looked like when Theo whupped everyone at Norton.

[Tom Berry]

It would not be the first time someone stopped for a cone in an x-ed out box and had the course workers not believe them... Ask me how I know ;)

Ok... I'll bite. How do you know?

[Bill Martin]

I was convinced there was a down cone, outside wall of the turn leading to the Chicago box. But it never got picked up so i figured it may have been a pointer. Now looking at some videos, I saw a second orphan down-cone out there, so definitely pointers. I just gotta think orphan pointers put down here and there are bad form. My opinion, pointers should be paired with an up-cone, or placed in batches. Like the 3-cone batches I used at Norton. Anticonfusionalistic.

[Doug Kott]

In the interest of extended thread drift, why is it called a Chicago Box? Used at an event for the first time in Chi-town? Is it the C shape of the outer part of the element?

[Rick Brown]

I prefer the term "lane change", i.e., practicing getting around some fool doing 50 in the fast lane on the freeway..........

[Bill Martin]

In the interest of extended thread drift, why is it called a Chicago Box? Used at an event for the first time in Chi-town? Is it the C shape of the outer part of the element?

What we had was not a full Chicago box. Typically it has a lateral entrance and a lateral exit. This one we could drive straight into. I believe it became a "term" after use at the Chicago Nationals back in the early 80's. I'd like to say I remember it, but all I remember from that event is the rear wheel of my Lotus spinning up and failing. It passed thru the finish clocks and they gave me FTD. Sadly I wasn't allowed to keep it.

[Theo O.]

In the interest of extended thread drift, why is it called a Chicago Box? Used at an event for the first time in Chi-town? Is it the C shape of the outer part of the element?

Chicago box as in being forced to go around an obstruction. Quite common in Chicago politics

[Kurt Rahn]

Sadly I wasn't allowed to keep it.

The wheel or the time?

[Arthur Grant]

In the interest of extended thread drift, why is it called a Chicago Box? Used at an event for the first time in Chi-town? Is it the C shape of the outer part of the element?

What we had was not a full Chicago box. Typically it has a lateral entrance and a lateral exit. This one we could drive straight into. I believe it became a "term" after use at the Chicago Nationals back in the early 80's. I'd like to say I remember it, but all I remember from that event is the rear wheel of my Lotus spinning up and failing. It passed thru the finish clocks and they gave me FTD. Sadly I wasn't allowed to keep it.

FTD?

[Mako Koiwai]

Same as TTD

[Arthur Grant]

Same as TTD

TTD?

[Mako Koiwai]

F.astest T.ime of D.ay or T.op T.ime of D.ay

[KJ Christopher]

Same as TTD

TTD?

Top Time of Day
Fast Time of Day

[Jonathan Lugod]

Lmao

[Arthur Grant]

Lmao

I will hide behind my Novice title.

In my world that could easily be Find Track Destroy
or terminal tracking sequence.

[Mako Koiwai]

It's a very busy week of work ... I'll try to get to your photo orders ASAP!