What, no Laurinburg course thread? :)

Brian Herring · **Posted:** Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:18 pm

Ryan Holton wrote:

Brian Herring wrote:

You got any results to back that up, buddy?

- dow

If you would have been there you would have seen it first hand!

What happened on Sunday, you cant "hack" it 2 days in a row? :wink:

Har har!

Stacy got a last minute 'you are going on a work related thing to Az', flew out on Th, arrived Sunday at the airport.

That is something that I wanted to be present for, so that took priority over autoX. I did my duty and taught the day before

- dow

Kevin Allen · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2003 6:42 pm **Posts:** 3479

MikeWhitney wrote:

That course map shows the whole lane change wrong. It was left-right-left, then right gate.

Hence the disclaimer!!!

FWIW, when I walked the course, I memorized it as "4 section lane change enter left". I "called" that fourth gate part of the lane change for memorization purposes.

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

I personally think the course totally sucked. I blame the course designer totally for my poor performance yesterday. Its all his fault. :wink:

Seriously though, the sweeper was just nutz. First time I've ever gone into third before entering the sweeper! What gear were you STI guys getting into? Sixth?

TomFreeman · **Posted:** Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:38 pm

Ryan Holton wrote:

Here is a pic of the interior of the car (Tom Freeman may not wanna look)
Its worse in person, there is dirt in the arm rests, dash, CD Player, EVERYWHERE!

Considering that I've done that to Les's car at Laurinburg, and a couple of agricultural excursions in your car at VIR, I can't complain. At least you covered up the hole in the dash under the head unit - that would have been a nice place for dirt to collect ;-)

Way to go VK. It's nice to note that my old car was definitely held back by it's previous driver. :oops:

Brian Herring · **Posted:** Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:39 pm

Les Davis wrote:

I personally think the course totally sucked. I blame the course designer totally for my poor performance yesterday. Its all his fault. :wink:

Seriously though, the sweeper was just nutz. First time I've ever gone into third before entering the sweeper! What gear were you STI guys getting into? Sixth?

Pfttt... gears? All i have in mine is a button for gas, a button for brake and a 'faux' wheel that makes it look like I am driving.

Seriously, the 3 diffs do all the rest.

- dow

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:18 pm

Les Davis wrote:

Seriously though, the sweeper was just nutz. First time I've ever gone into third before entering the sweeper! What gear were you STI guys getting into? Sixth?

Yeah I wish I knew how close to the limiter I was in 3rd :shock:

I wasnt toooooooo far.

Chris Landi · **Joined:** Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:31 pm **Posts:** 579

Les Davis wrote:

Seriously though, the sweeper was just nutz. First time I've ever gone into third before entering the sweeper! What gear were you STI guys getting into? Sixth?

Kevin thought we'd run out of 3rd after the sweeper and into the slalom. I never hit 4th, though.

Brian Herring · **Posted:** Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:11 pm

Ryan Holton wrote:

Les Davis wrote:

Seriously though, the sweeper was just nutz. First time I've ever gone into third before entering the sweeper! What gear were you STI guys getting into? Sixth?

Yeah I wish I knew how close to the limiter I was in 3rd :shock:

I wasnt toooooooo far.

For us

2nd = 58
3rd = 78
4th = 100+

Even though I wasnt there, I can almost assure you that I would been in 4th on that course.

- dow

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:44 pm

Ryan Holton wrote:

Les Davis wrote:

Seriously though, the sweeper was just nutz. First time I've ever gone into third before entering the sweeper! What gear were you STI guys getting into? Sixth?

Yeah I wish I knew how close to the limiter I was in 3rd :shock:

I wasnt toooooooo far.

Ok, with my wheel and tire combo I can do 83 in 3rd, I thought it was lower than that!! I doubt I was close to the limiter.

Keith Vail · **Posted:** Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:22 pm

Ryan Holton wrote:

Les Davis wrote:

Seriously though, the sweeper was just nutz. First time I've ever gone into third before entering the sweeper! What gear were you STI guys getting into? Sixth?

Yeah I wish I knew how close to the limiter I was in 3rd :shock:

I wasnt toooooooo far.

Ok, with my wheel and tire combo I can do 83 in 3rd, I thought it was lower than that!! I doubt I was close to the limiter.

I am guessing I was doing about 65-70 in my ES miata so you should have been going faster.

Charlie Smith · **Posted:** Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:57 pm

Kevin, great course!

To everybody else who made the weekend happen, thanks! I enjoyed the whole weekend. Great event!

Charlie

Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

So you guys talking about having to shift to fourth all of the time when that gear runs out at 78 is complete and utter bullshit. Gotcha.

Dustin Fredrickson · **Posted:** Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:24 am

Keith Vail wrote:

Ryan Holton wrote:

Les Davis wrote:

Seriously though, the sweeper was just nutz. First time I've ever gone into third before entering the sweeper! What gear were you STI guys getting into? Sixth?

Yeah I wish I knew how close to the limiter I was in 3rd :shock:

I wasnt toooooooo far.

Ok, with my wheel and tire combo I can do 83 in 3rd, I thought it was lower than that!! I doubt I was close to the limiter.

I am guessing I was doing about 65-70 in my ES miata so you should have been going faster.

I was doing ~5800RPM in third, based on my in-car video of my last run, whatever that works out to. I'd guess 70ish as well.

Arthur McDonald · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 1:54 am **Posts:** 2052

Les Davis wrote:

Seriously though, the sweeper was just nutz.

What sweeper? I expected to find a sweeper at the end of the runway, but all I found was two pivots that reminded me of the label on a bottle of Drain-O. I guess you're talking about the turn onto the taxiway when you say 'sweeper'. That was fun, as always, and not as slippery as I expected when I saw the packed sand in the potholes while I was walking the course.

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:24 am

Keith Vail wrote:

I am guessing I was doing about 65-70 in my ES miata so you should have been going faster.

Im only hauling the mail with a 1.6 Liter, so I make roughly the same power as you stock 1.8 guys.

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