NCR at Warren Field 4/29---anyone going?

Steven Carter · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:52 pm

New site, near Washington, just within my 2 hour radius of travel...so I figured I go annoy John Byers and the nice folks at NCR. Anyone else up for going? It's actually forecast to be nice weather!

edit: the runway looks to be 2800' long by 140' wide, roughly twice as wide as Sanford and nearly as long. Plus, I saw on the NCR forum that there may be skydiving going on at an adjacent runway :thumbsup:

But, I couldn't find a nearby Hardee's so that may be a gamechanger for some. :wink:

JohnByers · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:30 pm

Not to mention this is almost in Holton's back yard!

And I see Lee Williams signed up as well!

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:08 am

Wendy and I are signed up. Gotta check out the new place.

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:31 am

I'm signed up but I don't know if I will be able to make it or not. We just moved to a new house last Friday and life is REALLY getting in the way of motorsports right now. Plus the CRX needs an alignment REALLY, REALLY bad, like let go of the wheel and end up in the ditch bad. I even have new 195 R1R's that I have yet to get to try out :cry:

Just to add, the site is not near Washington, its IN Washington :shock:

and its only about a 15 min drive from my house

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:34 am

Sounds like dinner at Ryans house. Didnt you hear that John?

Ryan Holton wrote:

I'm signed up but I don't know if I will be able to make it or not. We just moved to a new house last Friday and life is REALLY getting in the way of motorsports right now. Plus the CRX needs an alignment REALLY, REALLY bad, like let go of the wheel and end up in the ditch bad. I even have new 195 R1R's that I have yet to get to try out :cry:

Just to add, the site is not near Washington, its IN Washington :shock:

and its only about a 15 min drive from my house

JohnByers · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:33 am

jeremy gast wrote:

Sounds like dinner at Ryans house. Didnt you hear that John?

Absolutely, fire up the grill!

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:30 am

JohnByers wrote:

jeremy gast wrote:

Sounds like dinner at Ryans house. Didnt you hear that John?

Absolutely, fire up the grill!

Too bad it's still at my parents house. :stick:

JohnByers · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:34 am

Ryan Holton wrote:

Too bad it's still at my parents house. :stick:

lol

Steven Carter · **Posted:** Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:00 pm

great site! Concrete runway composed of ~20X10' sections. Some weedage, and some of the corners of the blocks have delaminated and fragmented (if that's the right term) but FAR more useful space than Laurinburg. It drives a bit lumpy as the seams of the concrete are frequent, so there was a fair amount of complaining from some drivers who are used to the Cherry Point site....As expected, it was a "down n back" slalomfest, including a delicious 9-cone 23-pace element on the return. The width of the site allowed us to run 3 cars on course with a 30-ish second overlap. Only 71 drivers, so they split the run groups and did a morning/afternoon session, 3 runs each, 6 total. We still finished nearly at 5:00 :shock:

Plenty of runoff room, but the infield is a sod farm, so going agricultural there is not advised (unless you are one of the local skydivers, in which case it makes a nice LZ). One incident occurred when I guy went across a loose piece of conrete which then flew up and tore a hole in his floorpan, through the carpet and smacked him on the leg!

It took me 2 hours 5 minutes from NW Raleigh to get there.

Team Frank looked good as always, and there were some fast Sentras...Oh yeah, Lee Williams is the man. :thumbsup:

If anyone's interested, here's the course with my fastest run, a clean 63.3xx.
http://youtu.be/B4ZnygqyQWM

JohnByers · **Posted:** Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:03 pm

Lee Williams is absolutely the man! :shock:

I was happy and dissapointed in my driving today :lol:

Mr. Carter, car looked great on course as always!

Steven Carter · **Posted:** Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:09 pm

Ha! It was definitely an on/off switch for you...But you nailed that 60.xxx, so I will take the DNFs if that is my one clean run. Swing for the fences on every run, right?

clinehall · **Posted:** Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:20 am

Steven Carter wrote:

If anyone's interested, here's the course with my fastest run, a clean 63.3xx.
http://youtu.be/B4ZnygqyQWM

Good run, I really feel like a kid that slept through Christmas. I live about 20 minutes away.

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:58 am

Steven Carter wrote:

some of the corners of the blocks have delaminated and fragmented (if that's the right term)

Spalling is the term you are looking for.

Hate that I had to miss the event being so stinkin' close to the site. I am hoping they run there again later in the year.

Steven Carter · **Posted:** Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:49 am

spalling--word of the day for me. thanks!

I hope they run there again. Chris Seivert wasn't overly enamored with the spalling incident and the car damage. In talking with him briefly he was not enthused about hosting NCAC there, and non-committal about a return visit.

Jeff Eng · **Posted:** Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:50 am

Congrats to Wally for FTD and Lee for FTPAX. Great driving, wish I could have done better, but the course was not favorable with the gearing in my car.

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