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Thanks to everyone who braved the terrible weather forecast and made it out to the event, and a big thanks to everyone who stepped up and lent an extra hand -- Rob for getting there early and mowing and all his hard work when he could only get 2 runs in before leaving today; Dave for being a good-natured event-chair in training; Cos for driving the bus; Christine for yummy sandwiches; Rob L and Tom O and everyone else who helped set up on a pretty miserable Saturday! And everyone else who steps up and works their asses off as usual to make THSCC the best.

Despite the forecast of rain ALL DAY and the freaking deluge early in the morning, the dark clouds moved on by about 9:30 and we got almost all 92 drivers through 5 runs before the drizzle started in the last heat. The day turned out FAR more pleasant than I expected!

If anyone is interested, here is a MPG of I think my 4th run, a 66.1+1. (28MB)

http://www.nogumracing.com/whitney/2006 ... inburg.MPG

FYI it was taken with my 2-year-old point and shoot Sony DSC-W1 camera on a tripod strapped into the back seat. It's a great little camera.

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Mike Whitney
whit32@gmail.com, 919-454-5445
V10, V8, V8t, I6, I6, V6, F4t, I4, I4, I4, I4, I2, 1, 1

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The person with too many names...
Mary E./ME/Emmie Fisher/Daniel/Daniel-Fisher
(& some others not suitable for posting!).
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To add on to this..

Thanks go to Dustin for setting up the canopy at waiver sign-in. We experienced periods of heavy downfall early on. Sign-in would have ceased without it.

Thanks go to the drivers that got out of their cars without bitching during the worst of it. Passing out the waivers from under the canopy was not working so many folks had to get out and come to us.

Thanks go to the Saturday set up crew. Spending a day out in the rain was selfless and appreciated.

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Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

Any comments on the course are welcome.

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Rob Harvey
919-697-5485
1997 BMW M3
1992 Acura Integra (Simon)

It sucked

While walking it I thought it would be a little tight. However, after running it it proved to be pretty good. As usual, I think it really rewarded the driver to look ahead. I don't know if I would have changed a thing, except for maybe the confusing stop box at the end.

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2001 Honda S2000 - SOLD
2012 Boss 302
2003 BMW 330i

X 2

I didnt find the stop box confusing at all.

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02 Focus SVT
STF 9

We found out late on setup day that the course was even MORE fun driven in the other direction -- starting on the "P". Due to several logistical problems we couldn't change it that late I don't know why it was better the other way,

Next time though, I'm doing it the other direction.

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Mike Whitney
whit32@gmail.com, 919-454-5445
V10, V8, V8t, I6, I6, V6, F4t, I4, I4, I4, I4, I2, 1, 1

I thought the course was pretty good. Stop boxes are for tight places with lots of things to hit after a finish. We don't/didn't need one in LB.

PS. Mike, I spun right where Patrice said and was nowhere near that mound of dirt. I was off about 15 feet in the grass though!

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Vincent Keene
'06 Ford Mustang GT (track rat)
'15 Dodge Charger R/T (yeah, it's got a HEMI!)
'07 Ford Fusion SE (205,000 miles and counting)
'98 Chevy Z-24 (retired)
'93 Acura Integra (Team SWB 24HOL Car)

Great day given the weather. I was second guessing myself all the way there. . . sure enough right on cue at about 9:30 things started improving.

Co-Chair in training helped reinforce how much effort goes into pulling one of these off. So thanks again to all the peopel who pull it together.

More thanks to Mary/Carl for posting the results so quickly!

The course was a blast. Rob's Fault drove much better than it walked. Although there's one cone I'd liked to have prefered to epoxy to the runway surface. (Thanks to Wes for pointing that one out to me.)

Sybil didn't live up to her name as the day dried out. She was fully medicated by the afternoon heats.

For the record, I'll never get tired of sweeping on to or off of the crossover. I wish I had a little more air in the rear tires on my last run.

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Not spectacular just decent.
I'm not sure what I'm driving.
Maybe an ITR in DS.
Or half-assed STX prepped 330.

Other than the initial drenching it wasn't a bad day. A little slick for grid A run group 1 but things really improved as the day wore on. the course was long and fun to run, good job guys.
What a great club, 92 fools who wait out a torrential downpour, about twenty more who hover over Mailia, Marisa and Dustin till the state troopers run us off, and then the results are posted Monday early AM.
Thats why THSCC IS the premier auto club in the state. I hate to see this seasons points autox's end. Don't know how many more seasons I've got left.

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2004 C5(415whp,390ft/lbs),
1997C5,1997Trans Am, 1986 C4,
1990 Miata, 1976 MGB,1997 Protege, 1989 MR2

Sounds like fun- sorry we missed it!

Webmaster comment: If anyone has the coursemap in softcopy, please send to webmaster@thscc.com! Thanks!

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Carl Fisher

Be Cool to the Pizza Dude:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4651531

Need a copy of the dash plaque?

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Not spectacular just decent.
I'm not sure what I'm driving.
Maybe an ITR in DS.
Or half-assed STX prepped 330.

x2

Yeah, me too, I don't know which cone it was I was so fond of, but coneing away the FTD not once but twice results in a pretty frustrating day.

It was really nice to run a "Miles Loop" type course again. Feels like its been a long time. I will never get tired of them. I didn't even really miss the boost. Good job guys.