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Kudos to those that ran the event and setup the course. The course was challenging and fun. I hope the weather held out for those in the 3rd heat. - AB

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'14 Toyota Sequoia Platinum 4WD
Super Westerfield Bros - '93 Integra - LeChump Du Jour
STX 93 - Scion FR-S

It did! Didn't start raining until the trophies. Perfect timing!

BTW - Nice driving today Aaron!

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Todd Breakey
STS 42 - 1992 Sunburst Miata
Dammit!
"You souldn't play leap frog with a porcupine. You might get hurt." - Eliza

I thought the course was great. Good job Jason, Rob, and anyone else involved with the setup this weekend!

FS looks to be a hoot again this year. Despite keeping a secret on our 285 v710s, Art shows up and still whips us. My first time on brand new R comps and I still can't win. Nice driving Art!

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2001 Honda S2000 - SOLD
2012 Boss 302
2003 BMW 330i

Very fun course, a couple elements really tested my courage. "Stay in the gas" I had to keep telling myself.

I've never been so nervous watching Lee take his last two runs knowing that I couldn't do anything to respond. When he ran a 48.3 on his 3rd run, I thought for sure I was done for (and I would have been right had his last run been clean). I hope that whoever saw my embarassing little dance when he clipped the cone on his last run enjoyed it.

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2012 MX-5 Sport SUV

I had a blast thanks to everyone that put it on. It was very interesting having to trust my "rust bucket" at several places.

Thanks again.

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[color=#FFFFFF][/color]http://www.usedmiatapartsonline.com for all your used miata parts needs
http://www.wagnersauto.com for your salvage needs
2000 miata se Estreet,going to rally
2004 mazdaspeed miata bsp #77
shifter kart also(someone buy this $1500)

Thanks everybody for helping make our first points event a success! There was a lot of "new stuff" going on at this one, so we appreciate your patience while we worked through the occasional hiccup. I think part of that was due to the low turnout for this one - we often found ourselves a bit short handed. Thank you to everybody who pitched in to work an extra shift or otherwise help make the event a success.

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Karl S.
2014 Baby, 2014 House, 2013 Ford Focus ST, 2013 BMW 328i, 1994 Mercedes E320
(Insert passive aggressive signature line here)

I thought about you guys on Sunday, I was bummed I couldn't make it.

I'm coming for you in April Todd! UPS is descending upon my house like locusts delivering stuff this week

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02 Focus SVT
STF 9

Glad to hear on the rain and thanks for the kudos, but I think I left a lot on the table. It was the first time autocrossing since August '09. I'm betting I'll run Danville in a couple of weeks to shake more rust off prior to the Lincoln ProSolo.

It was really good to see a lot of THSCC members I haven't seen in a while and meet some new people. - AB

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'14 Toyota Sequoia Platinum 4WD
Super Westerfield Bros - '93 Integra - LeChump Du Jour
STX 93 - Scion FR-S

Thanks to everyone who helped put on the event. It was very fun and the course was a genuine blast. I can't remember seeing a better complete course at Laurinburg which combined most of the elements of auto-x'ing in such a flowing manner.

It was a great exercise of correct car placement combined with angle of attack. If you got both of those just right, the course really opened up and you could carry a ridiculous amount of speed in several places. I definitely had a couple of high "pucker" moments on each run which I haven't had on course in quite a while. Fun stuff!

Jim

Sorry to disappoint you Ryan but I won't be able to make the April event.

But it's on like Donkey Kong in May!!!!

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Todd Breakey
STS 42 - 1992 Sunburst Miata
Dammit!
"You souldn't play leap frog with a porcupine. You might get hurt." - Eliza

EW EW EW its a fight hehehehe

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[color=#FFFFFF][/color]http://www.usedmiatapartsonline.com for all your used miata parts needs
http://www.wagnersauto.com for your salvage needs
2000 miata se Estreet,going to rally
2004 mazdaspeed miata bsp #77
shifter kart also(someone buy this $1500)

Excellent event! Kudos to Jason, Maria and Rob for an excellent course!

As for FS, Art, Michael and Stephen definitely brought their A game. Congrats Art on fastest time Stock!! Since you boys have upped the game, so you've forced my hand. I cant afford new stickys and 18 wheels, so I'm off to TIR class. The new star specs have been ordered and on there way to Marks. I wish FS well this year, but it's out of reach for me. My tax adviser told me I had to change my withholding's for this year due to loosing Jordan as a dependent along w/ education credits and that hurts a lot. 2011 taxes are going to truly suck, but I digress...

Hope everyone had fun this weekend. We wrapped up just before the rain, so no fun runs was the right call. I would have loved a few more attacks on the course to see if I could get any where near Art's time, but Art and new A6's are a tough combo.

We'll see everyone in 2 weeks!!

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Rodney

'08 Bullitt mustang, CAM 7
Autox VP '09-'10, President '11-'12, interim President 2nd half of ‘14
proud recipient of the Bowie Grey service award '12
Now just a guy driving a mustang....

You really want to run against me don't ya? Looks like I might have to buy slicks and run to CSP.

I've got a set of rock hard and fully corded V710's you can have.

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Colin O'Connell

'94 BMW NASA SPEC 3
'02 F350 tow vehicle (not bad for a tow vehicle)
'97 Miata STO (autoX and sunny day spoils vehicle)
'97 BMW 328i (loaner to the kids when their cars don't work vehicle)
'05 Toyota Highlander

I want to give a big note of thanks to a few people who helped make both the novice school and our first event a success.

First - Thanks to mother nature for keeping the rain away until my runs were finished. (I was like the last one done so this isn't as selfish as it sounds )
Second - Thanks to Maria Winslow and Jason Watts for helping organize the Novice school, contributing ideas and suggestions and making sure that the students had plenty of seat/instructor time, and were first-time event chairs for Sunday and without them the event would not have been a success.
Third - To all the instructors who gave of their time to help teach novice autocrossers better skills and get faster. I think that all but 1 Novice Trophy went to Novice School Grads which attests to the quality of instruction.
Fourth - To Charlie Monroe for helping with the Novice School plans and making sure I didn't get off track with my midnite email ramblings as well as working to make the event run well; and Karl Shultz for his help with set-up, problem solving and suggestions.
FIFTH - and most importantly - To all the students who were open to learning, stayed on time and on task during the event, had fun and learned a bunch. It was great to see the times improve and the skills get better and makes all the work to put this on worth it.

Finally, I want to thank a couple of new members Pedro Cuevas and Nic Cadenas who jumped right in and helped instruct and set up - a big thanks and to Maria Winslow who let me drive her Mini. Damn, I had a blast in that car.

Thanks again to everyone, I had a great time (with the exception of driving the damn bus ) and am looking forward to the next event and hopefully my own car.