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 Post subject: Re: June 26th - Points Event #4 Danville Airport
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:42 am 
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DickRasmussen wrote:
The interim results had me thinking that one run was clean. The worst part is that even without the cone my best run was something like 12th in PAX. :(


Sorry about that Dick. I felt bad for making you believe otherwise when I saw that during the Audit.

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 Post subject: Re: June 26th - Points Event #4 Danville Airport
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:45 am 
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Aw crap, I coned every freakin' run! Haven't done that in awhile!


Me too. :oops: I have NEVER done that before in decades of autocrossing. :oops: :oops: :oops:

The interim results had me thinking that one run was clean. The worst part is that even without the cone my best run was something like 13th in PAX. :(


Well, at least I am in good company :sing:

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 Post subject: Re: June 26th - Points Event #4 Danville Airport
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:40 am 
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I'm with you guys. My first run was clean so I turned it up, coned, then two back to back dnf's. Ouch!

I think we made the entrance to the slalom a little too tight and it broke a bit of the flow, but live and learn. Accelerating in a slalom is sort of fun. :P


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 Post subject: Re: June 26th - Points Event #4 Danville Airport
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:46 am 
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Let me put things in perspective for you guys complaining about coning away runs. I have two clean runs.







...this season...


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 Post subject: Re: June 26th - Points Event #4 Danville Airport
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:10 am 
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JamesMilko wrote:
Let me put things in perspective for you guys complaining about coning away runs. I have two clean runs.







...this season...


OK - there's gotta be a year-end award planned for this one. Who can we name it after :twisted: ?

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 Post subject: Re: June 26th - Points Event #4 Danville Airport
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:51 am 
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Matt McGrain wrote:
I'm with you guys. My first run was clean so I turned it up, coned, then two back to back dnf's. Ouch!

I think we made the entrance to the slalom a little too tight and it broke a bit of the flow, but live and learn. Accelerating in a slalom is sort of fun. :P



NoNOnO It didn't break up the flow in my opinion. We very seldom have slaloms that do anything but stay static. When they increase or decrease it makes you think. The only "disruption" was seeing the pointer cone on the exit of the turnaround and mistaking it for the 1st cone in the slalom. I didn't do it, but I pointed my student the wrong way :stick: :oops: .

I thought the course was fun and ended up being about as fast as I thought when I walked it. I drove too slow on my first run and didn't get out of 2nd. Then I started getting coney including the first pivot cone after the start :stick:

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 Post subject: Re: June 26th - Points Event #4 Danville Airport
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It was def fun and good times. I have NEVER hit the rev limiter in second gear so far with the 275's. that was interesting..

thanks again guys.

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 Post subject: Re: June 26th - Points Event #4 Danville Airport
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:58 am 
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Stephen Westerfield wrote:
DickRasmussen wrote:
The interim results had me thinking that one run was clean. The worst part is that even without the cone my best run was something like 12th in PAX. :(


Sorry about that Dick. I felt bad for making you believe otherwise when I saw that during the Audit.


Stephen,

No problem. The runs were done by then anyway and I was actually surprised that even one run was "clean" since I thought I hit cones on them all. Since even my best raw time was far off the pace my goal was to figure out how to go faster by driving harder (no luck on that unfortunately). The problem was that the combination of my sloppy driving, less than optimum tire stick, and possible wrong car setup didn't cooperate. Either I would simply cut too close or the car would get loose and I would be "forced" off line.

The really good news is that the car ran perfectly (it and the engine were all in many pieces last winter) and I got solid data for all 5 runs on my new Race-Technology Video4/DL1 system. Now all I have to do is learn the software and figure out what worked (if anything) in my driving, and what didn't (if not everything :oops: ).

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 Post subject: Re: June 26th - Points Event #4 Danville Airport
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:28 am 
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Let me put things in perspective for you guys complaining about coning away runs. I have two clean runs.

...this season...


OK - there's gotta be a year-end award planned for this one. Who can we name it after :twisted: ?


Shultz?

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 Post subject: Re: June 26th - Points Event #4 Danville Airport
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:37 am 
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JamesMilko wrote:
Let me put things in perspective for you guys complaining about coning away runs. I have two clean runs.







...this season...


I have ZERO clean runs this season. (Five total runs . . . :( )

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 Post subject: Re: June 26th - Points Event #4 Danville Airport
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KendtEklund wrote:
JamesMilko wrote:
Let me put things in perspective for you guys complaining about coning away runs. I have two clean runs.







...this season...


OK - there's gotta be a year-end award planned for this one. Who can we name it after :twisted: ?


The Milcone Award?

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The Milcone Award?

:twisted: :mrgreen: :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: June 26th - Points Event #4 Danville Airport
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Stephen Westerfield wrote:
KendtEklund wrote:
JamesMilko wrote:
Let me put things in perspective for you guys complaining about coning away runs. I have two clean runs.

...this season...


OK - there's gotta be a year-end award planned for this one. Who can we name it after :twisted: ?


Shultz?


I was thinking that or Mauldin. I was running pretty dirty myself Sunday, I did manage one clean run fortunately, unfortunately my driving sucked majorly. I was well off the pace of where I should have been, not sure how much of that would be due to cord showing up on our rears. That's a little disappointing as that was only about 86 runs on those tires. I guess Bernie's car isn't quite as easy on tires as mine, I think I have a good bit more camber. I'm really not looking forward to the expense of another set of tires as I've been spending money like mad recently. :(

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 Post subject: Re: June 26th - Points Event #4 Danville Airport
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I was well off the pace of where I should have been, not sure how much of that would be due to cord showing up on our rears. That's a little disappointing as that was only about 86 runs on those tires. I guess Bernie's car isn't quite as easy on tires as mine, I think I have a good bit more camber. I'm really not looking forward to the expense of another set of tires as I've been spending money like mad recently. :(


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Seriously, just flip them. There's only what, 3 or 4 more events this season. That bit of cord on the inside probably wouldn't even be part of the contact patch under power. Worth a try anyway.

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 Post subject: Re: June 26th - Points Event #4 Danville Airport
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Les Davis wrote:
I was well off the pace of where I should have been, not sure how much of that would be due to cord showing up on our rears. That's a little disappointing as that was only about 86 runs on those tires. I guess Bernie's car isn't quite as easy on tires as mine, I think I have a good bit more camber. I'm really not looking forward to the expense of another set of tires as I've been spending money like mad recently. :(


Les.
Seriously, just flip them. There's only what, 3 or 4 more events this season. That bit of cord on the inside probably wouldn't even be part of the contact patch under power. Worth a try anyway.


Yup, Jim has rubbed off on you :lol:

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