Points Event #1, NCCAR March 1!

Karl Shultz · **Posted:** Mon Feb 24, 2014 4:34 pm

Keith Quistorff wrote:

Karl Shultz wrote:

The other car has the sport suspension package already on it, but is in Baltimore. I dunno how I'll get my other car back if I go up there and get that one.

Karl,
Check out the one-way car rental option - shop the various companies on line for best price. I was surprised how cheap it was to rent a car from Hertz one way from RDU to SAV when I bought my M3 in November. I also reserved a car for the trip home, in case the M3 didn't work out. There's no penalty if you don't pick it up, assuming you don't pre-pay.

Keith, THANKS! I'd not checked Hertz. I checked Enterprise, probably because they were at the top of whatever search I used. They wanted like $200 for a one-way rental. I could practically fly for that money. But Hertz looks much more reasonable at the moment.

The orange car has had paintwork done to it, so I've passed for now. I notice that the sales staff there has now added "HARD S Suspension Package" to the listing, after I asked them what it was. I was about to forgive the awful color and go buy it, but at least the sales guy there told me about the paintwork up front. I appreciated that. Clean Carfax, BTW. Those reports don't guarantee anything as far as crash repairs. I know a lot of you know that, but maybe not everyone does.

I've given up trying to find a suspension package car and am instead going to get what I want as a *car* and not as an *autocross tool*.

DickRasmussen · **Posted:** Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:27 pm

Karl Shultz wrote:

I've given up trying to find a suspension package car and am instead going to get what I want as a *car* and not as an *autocross tool*.

Sounds like a good move assuming the primary goal is a good car that happens to be a decent autocross car.

Steven Carter · **Posted:** Tue Feb 25, 2014 4:49 am

45 entries and T-minus 4 days, give or take. Sign up, people!

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Tue Feb 25, 2014 10:22 am

Steven Carter wrote:

45 entries and T-minus 4 days, give or take. Sign up, people!

^^^^this^^^^

It's going to be tough running this event assuming we're back out on track w/ this many people. You KNOW this is a great place to run, so as Steve sez, sign up!

Steven Carter · **Posted:** Tue Feb 25, 2014 10:33 am

On the other hand, does this mean we might have a good shot at fun runs?

Gwen Habenicht · **Posted:** Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:35 pm

So, with 45-50 drivers how many runs will we have?

Rob Keehner · **Posted:** Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:53 pm

Forecast for rain has been greatly diminished. Should be a good day.

Alec Moody · **Joined:** Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:02 am **Posts:** 299

RodneyWright wrote:

Steven Carter wrote:

45 entries and T-minus 4 days, give or take. Sign up, people!

^^^^this^^^^

It's going to be tough running this event assuming we're back out on track w/ this many people. You KNOW this is a great place to run, so as Steve sez, sign up!

Yeah, getting workers to stations quickly was a challenge last time. Will Sam let us use his truck again? If someone has a pickup truck I can do a round of drop off and pickups between each run group.

Karl Shultz · **Posted:** Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:34 pm

Do we always run NCCAR events on Saturdays? Just curious.

Rob Keehner · **Posted:** Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:34 pm

My pickup truck will be around.

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:01 pm

Karl Shultz wrote:

Do we always run NCCAR events on Saturdays? Just curious.

It's preferred. There's standing orders by NCCAR management of no running from 11-noon on Sundays

Karl Shultz · **Posted:** Tue Feb 25, 2014 10:41 pm

RodneyWright wrote:

Karl Shultz wrote:

Do we always run NCCAR events on Saturdays? Just curious.

It's preferred. There's standing orders by NCCAR management of no running from 11-noon on Sundays

That's cool. I was just curious.

Was really, really hoping to have a car of my own for this one, having never run on the big course at NCCAR before. It looks like I'll be purchasing the car Saturday. I guess that's kind of the same thing, right? :lol:

Steven Carter · **Posted:** Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:15 am

Karl Shultz wrote:

It looks like I'll be purchasing the car Saturday. I guess that's kind of the same thing, right? :lol:

Sweet!

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Wed Feb 26, 2014 9:22 am

Karl Shultz wrote:

It looks like I'll be purchasing the car Saturday. I guess that's kind of the same thing, right? :lol:

Glad you found a contender. Your experience reminds me of my search for the IS300 seven years ago- I drove myself mad hoping to find a low mileage 'design edition' in only black with the slightly higher spring rates, darker 11-spoke wheels, and fancy badges of course. :wink:

On the verge of cars.com, autotrader, CL, ebay & forum overload, I just got the standard version, which was 10x easier to find, and never looked back as it wasn't really going to be a serious autocross car anyway.

Gwen, at the first event using the track we got 7 runs with 52 entries, and the second event had 4 runs with 57 signed up but the course was 80 seconds (hate that I missed it). My guess is that the number of runs will be course dependent.

Jordan Normark · **Posted:** Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:08 am

Karl Shultz wrote:

Was really, really hoping to have a car of my own for this one, having never run on the big course at NCCAR before. It looks like I'll be purchasing the car Saturday. I guess that's kind of the same thing, right? :lol:

Buy this one today, run it Saturday. The ad has a phone number so maybe you'll actually get a response

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/4352104788.html

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