Zoombies attacked!!

Stephen Westerfield · **Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:09 pm

RodneyWright wrote:

Kevin Allen wrote:

RodneyWright wrote:

Kevin Allen wrote:

Cheaters. I heard they did about 50 runs on setup day. :roll:

...and the moral of this story is be an event chair! New season coming up folks! BTW, I did some "safety runs" and still suffered a beat down.

Yeah, but you're not that good.

I'm excellent in my mind, problem is the computer isn't reporting the correct results...

Computer's don't make error's, human's do. You sure your payment to the guy running the computer cleared?

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:34 pm

I'm glad it went smooth and everyone had fun. We just wanted to make a course that flowed and didn't have too long of a launch interval. Although it wasn't a L-burgish 70 second course it still had some fun elements that made you think and look ahead.

Good point James about the irony thingy. That's the first thing I thought of too, but had I dnf'd a run or two for not knowing the line or going right on the optional slalom it would have not been a surprise.

We didn't do much 'testing', just tweaking on the slow sections- it would have been really bad to have the lane change and box the way they were originally. You'd definitely would have needed your running shoes for cone shaggin' at station 4 & 5. :twisted:

Rodney Wright is right all right, event chairing is fun and I'd recommend it to anyone that hasn't tried it. I think it's harder agreeing on a theme/name than course design.

BTW, can we have dibs on the first Lauringburg event?

JamesShort · **Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:47 pm

Matt McGrain wrote:

I'm glad it went smooth and everyone had fun. We just wanted to make a course that flowed and didn't have too long of a launch interval. Although it wasn't a L-burgish 70 second course it still had some fun elements that made you think and look ahead.

Good point James about the irony thingy. That's the first thing I thought of too, but had I dnf'd a run or two for not knowing the line or going right on the optional slalom it would have not been a surprise.

We didn't do much 'testing', just tweaking on the slow sections- it wouldn't have been bad to have the lane change and box the way they were originally. You'd definitely would have needed your running shoes on at station 4 & 5. :twisted:

Rodney Wright is right all right, event chairing is fun and I'd recommend it to anyone that hasn't tried it. I think it's harder agreeing on a theme/name than course design.

BTW, can we have dibs on the first Lauringburg event?

Matt you know I was messing with you and it's not like you aren't at the top in your PAX mobile on events you don't chair

. Are you still considering driving the IS300 in DS next year?

Marcus had do take my joke seriously, so now I need to figure out if I'm going to get some race rubber for next year and make him walk the walk

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RobLupella · **Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:54 pm

Matt McGrain wrote:

I'm glad it went smooth and everyone had fun. We just wanted to make a course that flowed and didn't have too long of a launch interval. Although it wasn't a L-burgish 70 second course it still had some fun elements that made you think and look ahead.

Good point James about the irony thingy. That's the first thing I thought of too, but had I dnf'd a run or two for not knowing the line or going right on the optional slalom it would have not been a surprise.

We didn't do much 'testing', just tweaking on the slow sections- it wouldn't have been bad to have the lane change and box the way they were originally. You'd definitely would have needed your running shoes on at station 4 & 5. :twisted:

Rodney Wright is right all right, event chairing is fun and I'd recommend it to anyone that hasn't tried it. I think it's harder agreeing on a theme/name than course design.

BTW, can we have dibs on the first Lauringburg event?

The novice school usually precedes the first Laurinberg event. If you can co-chair with me and Maria (If she wants to) we can make sure the courses are easily linked from day 1 to day 2

Rob

MarcusMcRae · **Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2010 1:36 pm

JamesShort wrote:

Marcus had do take my joke seriously, so now I need to figure out if I'm going to get some race rubber for next year and make him walk the walk

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No, I wasn't taking it seriously. I was just kidding.

You have been setting some competitive times on street tires. I would just stay on street tires.

JamesShort · **Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2010 1:42 pm

MarcusMcRae wrote:

JamesShort wrote:

Marcus had do take my joke seriously, so now I need to figure out if I'm going to get some race rubber for next year and make him walk the walk

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No, I wasn't taking it seriously. I was just kidding.

You have been setting some competitive times on street tires. I would just stay on street tires.

I know I know

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Plus my times were fake anyway. I wrote the Westerfield's a check to give me some good times with the only requirement that I accept an embarrassing car descriptor

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Steven Carter · **Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2010 2:28 pm

[quote="JamesShort
Plus my times were fake anyway. I wrote the Westerfield's a check to give me some good times with the only requirement that I accept an embarrassing car descriptor

.[/quote]

I KNEW IT! grumblegrumblegrumble :wink:

Thanks Marcus, Matt and the veeps for a great event. Wish I couldawouldashoulda set better times, but what can you do? Clearly, for me spending money on car parts is not the issue--better driving is...There's always next year!

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

Thanks from me too for a great course - the definition of short-but-sweet.

Glad I could get a win in before the war starts :lol:

MarcusMcRae · **Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:04 pm

Here's a vid of my fastest coned run.

http://vimeo.com/16414114

It plays kinda choppy on my 'puter from the vimeo feed. How does it look on yours?

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:30 pm

MarcusMcRae wrote:

Here's a vid of my fastest coned run.

http://vimeo.com/16414114

It plays kinda choppy on my 'puter from the vimeo feed. How does it look on yours?

It's smooth as far as I can see. Where'd ya hit the cone?

MarcusMcRae · **Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:51 pm

Must be my pos computer. In the slalom. I think it was the 5th or 6th cone.

JamesShort · **Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:37 am

Here is mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02mVkDCc24

While I like this point of view, the go pro gets way too noisy above 35/40 mph while on the outside of the car. I think now there is the upside down firmware release, I might put it on my dome light lens inside the car so I can watch my steering input and the course.

Les Davis · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:04 pm **Posts:** 2059

MarcusMcRae wrote:

Here's a vid of my fastest coned run.

http://vimeo.com/16414114

It plays kinda choppy on my 'puter from the vimeo feed. How does it look on yours?

So the camera is mounted to your helmet? That's an interesting approach, must be a small camera, is it one of those go-pro units? That setup really shows when/where your looking ahead, or in my case it would be not looking ahead.

Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:54 pm

Someone had a helmet mounted Go Pro while driving Keith's kart during fun runs. That's the video I want to see.

BTW - Fun course guys! Thanks for a fun day. Just wish I could have beat Charlie and Alan. Nice driving guys!

JamesMilko · **Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:00 pm

The video didn't come out.

It wasn't me but I helped the driver (Christian) copy the video off the gopro. Ended up being a picture of Keith making silly face instead of a video.

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