4/11/2010 results

Stephen Westerfield · **Posted:** Mon Apr 12, 2010 3:34 pm

Chris Peterson wrote:

Has anyone else noticed that there's a new chick breaking into the higher ranks on the pax results?? Former Chick School student Jennifer Bedell is moving on up in her MR2 Spyder. 29th in the first event. 28th in this event. YOU GO GIRL!!!!!! Nice driving!

Indeed, nice driving Jennifer. I have to say, I was a little disappointed last night looking at the results when I saw a few CS'ers ahead of FS on what I'd consider to be somewhat of a "horsepower" course.

Gwen Habenicht · **Posted:** Mon Apr 12, 2010 4:57 pm

Chris Peterson wrote:

Has anyone else noticed that there's a new chick breaking into the higher ranks on the pax results?? Former Chick School student Jennifer Bedell is moving on up in her MR2 Spyder. 29th in the first event. 28th in this event. YOU GO GIRL!!!!!! Nice driving!

Noticed, and applauded. :clap:

I'd better step up my act to beat her in pax!!!

Aaron Buckley · **Posted:** Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:04 pm

I will say that with the Danville site, the grip level definitely tails away as the day progresses.

On my 2nd run I felt like I left about .8 second out there (even without the cone), but in the afternoon I struggled to match my first run time that was .6 second slower than my best raw. - AB

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:22 pm

but there are also a hand full of people that there fastest time was in the afternoon, the course def felt "slicker" in the afternoon or it was just me from baking working the course during the third heat. Either way fun as crap.

Aaron Buckley · **Posted:** Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:27 pm

jeremy gast wrote:

but there are also a hand full of people that there fastest time was in the afternoon, the course def felt "slicker" in the afternoon or it was just me from baking working the course during the third heat. Either way fun as crap.

It was definitely a fun time, no doubt about that. It was probably one of the best courses I have driven at Danville in 5 years.

As for people going faster, sure, I think there were plenty of people who went faster, but that was likely due to correcting mistakes from earlier or "figuring out" a section they weren't doing very well.

The areas that hurt me the most in the afternoon were the slower areas, like the first sweeper and turn around. The loss of grip there was very noticable. - AB

Gwen Habenicht · **Posted:** Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:09 pm

Aaron Buckley wrote:

The areas that hurt me the most in the afternoon were the slower areas, like the first sweeper and turn around. The loss of grip there was very noticable. - AB

Those 2 areas got me as well. It's actually not that easy to do a 360 in a Mini, in the grass, like I did in the sweeper on my 1st AM run. I almost did exactly the same thing at the crossover on my 2nd run in the PM.
Still, Danville is my favorite site.

Karl Shultz · **Posted:** Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:35 pm

Eric and I had a heck of a time coming out of the first slalom during the afternoon. We'd loosened up the car just a touch, and in that one area in particular, the car was rather wild. The moment I tried to go full throttle on the way out of the slalom, it would step big time. Controllable, but a little out of character for my car. It usually tends towards stable.

Well, stable-ish. :lol:

ChrisSuich · **Posted:** Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:05 pm

Many thanks to the VP's and Event Chairs of the weekend for putting together a great course.
The whole course was fast and the elements were well linked with enough challenge.

Here is the video of my fastest run 44.448
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svRrMjaeJpI
(Be fair warned Maria that the Supercharger whine is very prominent.)

RobLupella · **Posted:** Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:23 pm

Gwen Baake wrote:

Chris Peterson wrote:

Has anyone else noticed that there's a new chick breaking into the higher ranks on the pax results?? Former Chick School student Jennifer Bedell is moving on up in her MR2 Spyder. 29th in the first event. 28th in this event. YOU GO GIRL!!!!!! Nice driving!

Noticed, and applauded. :clap:

I'd better step up my act to beat her in pax!!!

Put her on race rubber and she rules :thumbsup:

Arthur McDonald · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 1:54 am **Posts:** 2052

Stephen Westerfield wrote:

Keith Quistorff wrote:

How about that battle in FS - all three drivers separated by 0.077 seconds!

I was bummed I threw my last run away. Got a little greedy going into the turn around and started pushing....it was all downhill after that. Oh well. Loosing by .008 really sucks. A little more gas here or a little less brake there would have done it.

Is this where I'm supposed to say "I'll try to beat you by a wider margin next time" ? I guess not, that wouldn't be very sporting.

I think all three of us could have gone quite a bit quicker ... the fact that we were so close together may have made us all over-do it a bit.

I really thought I had nailed my last run, but then I braked a little late for the C-box, which made the following left a struggle - so I decided to make it all up, and then some, on the final (right hand) turn to the finish. Sure enough, the back end pitched out, but I caught it, and there was some wheelspin, but that would have been OK too, except I forgot to push that little "TCS" button on the dash before I began the run. I idled across the finish with the gas pedal pinned to the floor. If only a Toyota engineer had designed the fly-by-wire throttle for my car!

Anyway, I really liked the course.

BriceJohnson · **Joined:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:33 am **Posts:** 2230

Aaron Buckley wrote:

jeremy gast wrote:

but there are also a hand full of people that there fastest time was in the afternoon, the course def felt "slicker" in the afternoon or it was just me from baking working the course during the third heat. Either way fun as crap.

It was definitely a fun time, no doubt about that. It was probably one of the best courses I have driven at Danville in 5 years.

As for people going faster, sure, I think there were plenty of people who went faster, but that was likely due to correcting mistakes from earlier or "figuring out" a section they weren't doing very well.

The areas that hurt me the most in the afternoon were the slower areas, like the first sweeper and turn around. The loss of grip there was very noticable. - AB

I thought it lost grip in the afternoon too, but then again, my front right tire was in the process of delaminating. I just chalked it up to the tire.

KendtEklund · **Joined:** Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:29 pm **Posts:** 1204

jeremy gast wrote:

but there are also a hand full of people that there fastest time was in the afternoon, the course def felt "slicker" in the afternoon or it was just me from baking working the course during the third heat. Either way fun as crap.

Yeah - looks like we're going to have fun fighting it out in CSP

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:55 am

def was close. I just hope the 1.6 makes it the rest of this season, 210k and counting

KendtEklund wrote:

jeremy gast wrote:

but there are also a hand full of people that there fastest time was in the afternoon, the course def felt "slicker" in the afternoon or it was just me from baking working the course during the third heat. Either way fun as crap.

Yeah - looks like we're going to have fun fighting it out in CSP

Charlie Monroe · **Posted:** Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:53 am

Chris Peterson wrote:

Has anyone else noticed that there's a new chick breaking into the higher ranks on the pax results?? Former Chick School student Jennifer Bedell is moving on up in her MR2 Spyder. 29th in the first event. 28th in this event. YOU GO GIRL!!!!!! Nice driving!

Jennifer is really driving great. And she is getting faster in a hurry. C Stock is going to be a fun class this year and I hope we can all get faster as the year goes on.

With Jennifer, MJ and Rebecca in the class, if us guys don't speed up, chicks will indeed rule.

Judi Westerfield · **Posted:** Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:58 am

RobLupella wrote:

Gwen Baake wrote:

Chris Peterson wrote:

Has anyone else noticed that there's a new chick breaking into the higher ranks on the pax results?? Former Chick School student Jennifer Bedell is moving on up in her MR2 Spyder. 29th in the first event. 28th in this event. YOU GO GIRL!!!!!! Nice driving!

Noticed, and applauded. :clap:

I'd better step up my act to beat her in pax!!!

Put her on race rubber and she rules :thumbsup:

I love Jennifer's "no fear" driving! She is driving awesome!

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