AutoX Returns to Carlisle in 2009!
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But you misunderstand grasshopper - pay no attention to what the Carlisle web-site says - it IS the CVCC that will be running the event. In their haste to shut Brad up, the Carlisle webmaster just grabbed the text from the Import show, where the SCCA is running that AutoX event.Grayson wrote:I trust the SCCA to do a better job than a local Corvette Club anyway. I know that particular region has spawned some national champions too. This event should run just fine.
The 10am start time is nice...we won't have to wake up too early.
Trust me, that 10AM start-time was no accident.
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Oh man, this is tempting. Problem for me is i'm the chair for that weekends autocross with my local club.
However - if they let us have ridealongs, i'd love to both have grayson & anglin ride with me and drive my car to get their feedback.
I'm going to have to reconsider - if i go to carlisle, i can lose my points lead (i'm battling some mustangs and such that are CP - prepped and it's TIGHT), but i might gain enough experience with the advise of the wise where i can make the points back up...
However - if they let us have ridealongs, i'd love to both have grayson & anglin ride with me and drive my car to get their feedback.
I'm going to have to reconsider - if i go to carlisle, i can lose my points lead (i'm battling some mustangs and such that are CP - prepped and it's TIGHT), but i might gain enough experience with the advise of the wise where i can make the points back up...
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Grayson,
Did you lay the smackdown? You better have.
I had obligations with my local club Carlisle weekend (event chair, course designer) so i couldn't make it out to Carlisle. Won here, tho.
Did you lay the smackdown? You better have.
I had obligations with my local club Carlisle weekend (event chair, course designer) so i couldn't make it out to Carlisle. Won here, tho.
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sometimes less than a second feels like an eternity.
glad to hear grayson did well
and 8 second gap - that's just not cool, but not cool in a hilarious way. kinda wish i could have made it to see how i'd stay up. oh well.
glad to hear grayson did well
and 8 second gap - that's just not cool, but not cool in a hilarious way. kinda wish i could have made it to see how i'd stay up. oh well.
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Yea, it really was hilarious to see how ridiculously well Chris drove the car. Terry Watson, a reasonably accomplished driver himself, was ~8 seconds slower in the same car (admitedly with no previous seat time).demonfire wrote:and 8 second gap - that's just not cool, but not cool in a hilarious way. kinda wish i could have made it to see how i'd stay up. oh well.
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Does anyone have access to the results of the Carlisle autocross? I guess I can't speak objectively about the results without having the results.
I actually liked that little Carlisle autocross course. I thought it would be a bad experience but they did a good job with the space that they had available. It was actually a very fun course to race - the changing camber of the course definitely made things interesting.
I actually liked that little Carlisle autocross course. I thought it would be a bad experience but they did a good job with the space that they had available. It was actually a very fun course to race - the changing camber of the course definitely made things interesting.
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It was 6 seconds.demonfire wrote:sometimes less than a second feels like an eternity.
glad to hear grayson did well
and 8 second gap - that's just not cool, but not cool in a hilarious way. kinda wish i could have made it to see how i'd stay up. oh well.
In my defense... my car has completely stock suspension, and brakes. It's a 221,000 mile daily driver with working AC. I've never driven it competitively, and haven't raced anything in over two years.
It's easy to say you'd be fast if you weren't there.
Graysons car was waaaaaayyyy fast though.
I've always thought it was fun for what they have to work with. Here's a shot of the time sheets. I never felt like I got either of the 180 turns right, especially in the same lap. It really killed me when I lost too much momentum, because it took forever for my junk turbo to spool back up.Grayson wrote:Does anyone have access to the results of the Carlisle autocross? I guess I can't speak objectively about the results without having the results.
I actually liked that little Carlisle autocross course. I thought it would be a bad experience but they did a good job with the space that they had available. It was actually a very fun course to race - the changing camber of the course definitely made things interesting.
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