Dennis, dude don't be so hard on yourself! I thought
you did the best you could. You probably could have
abandoned the timers a little sooner and switched to
the 20 minute groups format a little earlier but you
tried to get everyone at least one time. I WILL be at
the next event for sure. And I would be at others if
there were any. The only thing I REALLY didn't like
was the Chinese food! But then again, I am really
picky about Chinese food. Can we just start with the
20 minute groups next year? I am the big chicken who
was worried about hurting my pretty blue Mazda MP3.
Once I was out on the track in the groups I was having
a blast though and found that it wasn't as bad as I
thought it was going to be. I know all those guys in
the Celicas didn't want to hurt their cars either.
Honestly, tell everyone to bring a friend with a
stopwatch next time and let us do the 20 minute
groups. I found it easier to guage my performace by
seeing what other cars were doing on the track in
front of me and adjusting what I was doing to see if
that was a faster way to get around the track or not.
I could tell I was doing it right when I caught up to
them. That's probably a total newbie view of it, but
it works for me!
Thanks again Dennis and Peggy for a really fun event.
Oh yeah can you do something about the weather next
time? It was freezing!
--- Dennis Hale <dhale_510@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The event was never billed as a Solo anything. SCCA
> as
> John so gently indicates, is very proud of their
> reinvention of these sports as Solo ones. It is just
> so cool to have discovered the exact term that
> describes the games so well.. 8-)
> As a Solo event we would have been required to
> mandate
> firesuits and rollcages and a bunch of other
> prohibtive stuff. We tried to stage a "Solo Trials"
> at
> the then new Thunderhill about 7 years ago and were
> totally blocked by folks both locally and from
> Denver.
> Plus we would have received a lot of "help" from
> folks
> who usually mostly get in the way. Then again, maybe
> we would have had a timing system that worked...
>
> I think the feasibility of the activity was
> indicated.
>
> 53 folks got times, about 6 or 7 of us did not.
> TTOD was Mike Bernstein in a Ralt Super Vee at 1:58.
> Second was Mike Schlicht in the Europa at 1:59.
> Navid was about 4th or 5th overall in his stocker,
> just a bit behind Jeff Glorioso, .006 as I recall.
> Jeff's daughter was not there to whup up on Navid.
> 8-)
> I think the Super Falcon got in there ahead of them
> too.
> Peggy had the results entered into her cFrom ba-autox-owner@autox.team.net
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Wow James, way to hang in there! But, in your rush to tell us about this
ordeal, you referred to your other car as your "street car". I thought the
Cobra was a real street car.
--Navid
Street car, shmstreet car!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Creasy [mailto:black94pgt@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 12:00 AM
> To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: sticking with it
>
>
> a little story about how i got to the autocross sunday.
>
> id had some misfire problems after the 11 november autocross,
> so i spent a
> great deal of effort tracking down the cause and fixing it.
> got it all set,
> testing the day before the autocross. finally go out to
> start the car one
> more time to pull it into the garage.
>
> the car wont start, 5:30 PM the night before the last autocross of the
> season with trophies at stake, and i run over to a friend's
> house to borrow
> a starter. get it hooked up, finally wired right (it was
> different than mine
> and required a second wire) and it wont engage the flywheel.
> :P now all the
> stores are closed. im thinking of what to do and finally in
> desparation
> call another cobra friend at 12:30AM. he offers to bring up
> another starter
> early in the morning all the way from fremont to berkeley at
> 6AM, providing
> i had coffee ready for him when he arrives. :)
>
> we hook up the starter, nothing. mike tries jumping the
> starter, nothing. we
> pull it out and check it. dead.
>
> so now i have three starters, two are dead, one is the wrong
> size and wont
> engage the flywheel and time is running short. and to boot,
> my battery was
> hosed and leaking and the spare i had was too tall for my hold downs.
>
> so i pull the battery out of my street car and wire it in
> there. we are
> going to push start the car but the computer requires at
> least 8 volts.
>
> mike pushes me out onto the busy two lane road in from of my
> house. even at
> 8AM there is enough traffic i am waving to them as we block
> the road and
> mike struggles to push my car up the steep crown of the hill.
>
> finally we get it headed downhill and i pop the clutch. BANG
> it springs to
> life and blows one of the CC inserts out onto the street. no
> time to worry
> about that- i head off to oakland and make it just in time to walk the
> course and find sherry wearing a sign around her neck looking
> for an OSP
> co-drive :P i had slept about 4 hours and had eaten and
> drunk nothing since
> the starter fried itself the evening before. eat one of the
> candy canes for
> breakfast and drive. whew, the car performs flawlessly and
> none of my
> co-drivers stalls the car on course (requiring an embarassing
> push start).
>
> special thanks to mike easton without whose help i never
> would have made it!
>
> -james c
> OSP #74
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