September Rally-X

Charlie Guthrie · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2003 8:14 pm **Posts:** 832

OK, what shall we do about September. I hear that there is some lack of enthusiasm for NCCAR, but that course turned out to be pretty good for the PM course. It is a bit of a drive for some, but it is way closer than the SCCA event at Summit Point WV. Where's the love of the excitement of Rally-X?

A scheduling conflict prevents moving the event closer to Raleigh, so we are faced with either loosing an event or returning to NCCAR. Let's have a discussion on use of NCCAR as I would prefer not to haul all the way to WV for a September event, but I'm not sure that I can wait until October?

If no one is interested in the haul to NCCAR are there any folks interested in making a pilgrimage to Summit Point for their 2 day school/rally-x? Perhaps this could be made into a group camp-out.
Charlie G

Michael Czeiszperger · **Joined:** Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:35 am **Posts:** 861

Do you have a link to info about the Summit Point event? Google has failed me for some reason.

I'm up for NCCAR, but attendance was way down for that one so we'd have to take a poll to see if it was just that weekend or the location.

Kevin Allen · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2003 6:42 pm **Posts:** 3479

If lots of people want to try NCCAR again, I'll go set it up and we'll run there. If I don't see enough interest, we'll skip September and just run the last two at Wilson.

So if you're interested (or not), post your comments about the last one, and why we should or shouldn't try it again.

I wasn't at the first one, so I don't know anything about how great or crappy it was.

Pete Guthrie · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 2:13 pm

as long as the course is not so slow again.. i like fast courses.. i could try again.. someday we will find another course as good again. Right now we are fighting motor mount issues.. but eventually we will figure out how to make them last. maybe even take wrx up to summit point.. not rough there is it.

Charlie Guthrie · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2003 8:14 pm **Posts:** 832

The nature of the NCCAR field is (to the best of my recollection) reasonably smooth with many small broken roots in the not-used areas, not many stones. For the last event the staff had passed word to the event chairs to try to use as much of the existing motorcycle "track" as possible for our event, so the morning course turned out to be far too tight for fun in several places. Believe it or not motorcycles have smaller turning circles than cars. We could imagine a swarm of cycles racing footpeg-to-footpeg through those turns but we had trouble. In the afternoon we took some liberties with the real estate and created a pretty fun course. There was room for 3 long sweepers, a back straight with some rolling bounces (really couldn't call them jumps unless one was really off line). The soil seemed reasonably compacted and rutting was minimal, but it had been dry for more than a week. The soils that were most loose were more compact than the sandy parts of the BMW Farm and the most firm parts were just a bit softer than the big tire squealing clay turn about mid-way through the BMW Farm. The bumps were considerably less than many bumps that we have successfully used at BMW Farm - there were no "air time" bumps or jumps.
My only concern with this site would be in the event of rain. I believe that the newly disturbed soil could turn to deep mud if we got much rain, of course this could be said for most of our rally-x sites. On the plus side there is no grass to mow before we set the cones. There were some complaints about dust, but that sort of comes with racing in dirt. We had lots of dust at Wilson...and one complaint about it from a near neighbor.
If the club can negotiate an escape clause for rain/muddy conditions I would endorse another trip there.
Charlie Guthrie

Charlie Guthrie · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2003 8:14 pm **Posts:** 832

One more item...could we send a broadcast email to past entrants since it appears that the forum is not a favorite hangout for many of the rally-x faithful....(we do have faithful, don't we?) (yes I are one)
Charlie G

Pete Guthrie · **Posted:** Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:22 pm

It cant be august 4th.. I have TKD testing that day. But then two months before next testing cycle.. So I have plenty of time between that and then.

Pete Guthrie · **Posted:** Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:26 pm

It cant be august 4th.. I have TKD testing that day. But then two months before next testing cycle.. So I have plenty of time between that and then.Around the end of next month i am going to see my sister in charlotte, the 23rd or so I think. Taking the wrx and my dog and some stuff with me. Going to white water center.

George Bright · **Posted:** Thu Jul 26, 2012 6:21 pm

Pete Guthrie wrote:

It cant be august 4th.. I have TKD testing that day. But then two months before next testing cycle.. So I have plenty of time between that and then.

The club cannot worry about 1 person's conflicts.

Pete Guthrie · **Posted:** Thu Jul 26, 2012 6:44 pm

while I understand that ... I was simply inputting my information in to the process. If you do not like it, that is unfortunate.

Pete Guthrie · **Posted:** Thu Jul 26, 2012 7:03 pm

you voted against me in the club and yet im still here.

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Thu Jul 26, 2012 7:45 pm

Aug 4 is already the next auto

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