Ever thought of trying the Hoosiers or even the Michellin tires that the
ProDrive team use (or used to use) for the tight road courses (on asphalt)
in the WRC? What are the WRX folks running nationally?
Ah my poor del Slop.... oops del Sol. No I aint going to the AutoX school -
as it was full by the time I heard about it.... but I am going to kart
school (for next years fun) and the autox school in June.
See ya at the next event....
Mark.
-----Original Message-----
From: J C [mailto:veloimpreza@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 10:29 AM
To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Climbing the ladder (was Kumhos for WRX)
--- "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>
wrote:
> It's your call for when you leave the Novice class,
> at least during your first year.
This is my second year, last year I ran less than
1/3rd of the events. This year I'm going for a podium
spot so I plan on running as many events as possible.
I'll be forced to go to D Stock for this year's slush
series.
> Are you leading your Novice class?
> a) If so, are you getting closer to the
> regular class leader at
> every event?
In the novice 6 series point I currently stand in 4th
place having missed one event (since once gets dropped
every 4 the last event may have made a difference
given my 3rd place competition is a Del Sol which
given last event's conditions I think I could have
beat :-). I'm the fastest WRX in N6. As far as the
regular class leader... that would be Peter Mottaz
(who I believe has PAXed at 3, 5 and 15 for rounds 1
through 3). When I move to D-stock I'll have my
crosshairs on Lorry (Lawrence Hindle). Lorry of course
has A LOT of motivation to NOT let me ever beat him
though for the thorough pounding he'll from our
workmates when I do beat him for the first time. I
figure he's got it commin' anyway. Had I not met him
I'd have never got into autocrossing and I'd have
saved myself a TON of money <hehe> :-).
I was using Lorry last year as a benchmark when we
were running the exact same cars and tires. We both
bought our cars around the same time so the learning
curve was similar and I did close the gap on him a
little bit although he's still a MUCH better driver
than I am.
> b) If not, are you getting closer to the
> fastest Novice in your
> class at every event?
>
> --John Kelly
My main concern is Michael Shenoy (or is it Shengy) in
his Audi S4. He's a good driver and I've yet to beat
him. He is within striking distance however. I'm
hoping the autocross school will help me close the
gap. If so, the two of us should be very close and
should provide for some very exciting racing!!! I'm
also keeping an eye on Mark Smith ('95 Del Sol) and
Bill Lennan ('02 IS300)... I hope none of them are
going to the autocross school <hehe> ;-).
Joe
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