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Re: Thank You From the Event Chair.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:01 pm
by Mike Simanyi
Mike Kazmierczak wrote:I was shocked to see how much work actually goes into setting up a course for the weekend. I was told "We had a lot of people" and it still took over 4hrs to set everything up on Friday.
Courses *can* be set up quicker, but top quality courses take a lot of thought and effort, not just from a designer but from the whole setup team. Glad you could see behind the scenes there Mike. Your effort probably exposed you to a level of mental preparation that most people don't understand for the first year, or longer.
Mike
Re: Thank You From the Event Chair.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:27 pm
by Christine Grice
Aaron Goldsmith wrote:Mike Kazmierczak wrote:Mako Koiwai wrote:You were in one of the slo mo videos that I already posted ... 2nd half of one of them ... I think I added your car number and class to the title.
Thank you for taking the time to film Mako.
My car number was 600 (SM Novice), I didn't see it in your videos, or I might have missed it.
Paint your car school bus yellow and you can just scroll through at max speed and still find all the instances of your car, haha.
Which is an interesting thought right up until the point where you realize that:
A: your car is school bus yellow
j/k
B: one of your runs is piggy backed onto the second half of Gary Thomason's video (Aaron, you might want to go watch a couple of Gary's videos)
Re: Thank You From the Event Chair.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:31 pm
by Mike Kazmierczak
Aaron Goldsmith wrote:Mike Kazmierczak wrote:Mako Koiwai wrote:You were in one of the slo mo videos that I already posted ... 2nd half of one of them ... I think I added your car number and class to the title.
Thank you for taking the time to film Mako.
My car number was 600 (SM Novice), I didn't see it in your videos, or I might have missed it.
Paint your car school bus yellow and you can just scroll through at max speed and still find all the instances of your car, haha.
Since you already have that color covered, and me being new and not wanting to step on the veterans toes, I think id rather go with something along these lines of this color.
Then id be able to find myself day AND night.
Re: Thank You From the Event Chair.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:33 pm
by Mako Koiwai
I DO know that I have shots of you ... you were there on Sat. also right? Black ... what?
Re: Thank You From the Event Chair.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:35 pm
by Mike Kazmierczak
Mako Koiwai wrote:I DO know that I have shots of you ... you were there on Sat. also right? Black ... what?
Yes, I was there on Sat, and Sun. Red Honda Prelude #600 SM Novice.
Re: Thank You From the Event Chair.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:38 pm
by Mike Kazmierczak
Mike Simanyi wrote:Mike Kazmierczak wrote:I was shocked to see how much work actually goes into setting up a course for the weekend. I was told "We had a lot of people" and it still took over 4hrs to set everything up on Friday.
Courses *can* be set up quicker, but top quality courses take a lot of thought and effort, not just from a designer but from the whole setup team. Glad you could see behind the scenes there Mike. Your effort probably exposed you to a level of mental preparation that most people don't understand for the first year, or longer.
Mike
It was an eye opening experience. Going from scratch to a technical course, and then running it on Sat/Sun, was inspiring. I hope to be more involved in the future.
Re: Thank You From the Event Chair.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:41 pm
by Mako Koiwai
hard top ... or soft top ... top was up in some runs?
Re: Thank You From the Event Chair.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:44 pm
by Mike Kazmierczak
Mako Koiwai wrote:hard top ... or soft top ... top was up in some runs?
It's a hardtop coupe.
Here is a picture of it.
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Re: Thank You From the Event Chair.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:45 pm
by Theo O.
Looks like your car is being sucked into some sort of vortex ... :mrt:
Re: Thank You From the Event Chair.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:11 pm
by Mike Kazmierczak
Theo Osifeso wrote:
Looks like your car is being sucked into some sort of vortex ... :mrt:
I assure you the vortex is class legal. }:)
Re: Thank You From the Event Chair.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:03 pm
by Mako Koiwai
Re: Thank You From the Event Chair.
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:41 am
by Mike Kazmierczak
Thank you very much Mako.
It's very interesting to see where improvements can be made.
Re: Thank You From the Event Chair.
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:10 am
by Brett King
Mako Koiwai... Making people realize their handling issues 1 vid at a time.
Re: Thank You From the Event Chair.
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:17 pm
by Collin Webster
I wanted to say thanks to a bunch of people from the 8/22 practice who took time out of the last practice before nationals to help a newby like myself. I had a bunch of help, but special thanks to Jason Flores for riding with me and providing two great rides. The lessons helped, but also showed how much further I have to go! Lily Liu also provided me some eye opening rides that helped me refine my line further! After help from Jason and Lily I was able to get from a start of 70.2 seconds down to 66.33... that's 5%. If I can keep getting 5% better, I might some day be able to get the hang of this!
Cheers!
Collin Webster
'08 MazdaSpeed 3
