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I already spoke with Jason. I've got tech covered tomorrow.

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

Well, at the end of a great day, I have only accomplished two of my goals. I'll have to try harder next time!

Thanks to everyone involved in putting on today's event - you did an awesome job! I love my t-shirt, I am wearing it right now.

Thanks also to all of today's sponsors - especially Discount Tire. What an awsome show of support for such a worthy cause. I am very happy I could be a part of it, even if I broke out on the first run!

Great event, all the way around!

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'92 Prelude
'76 Celica

And here's to Wes and Scott, for putting together a day that exceeded my already high expectations exiting Danville with Triad/CCR.

The course, I'm afraid, lended itself to people running into a lot of cones. That's part of designing a course to accomodate Sanford's taxiway, which is narrow, and has the potential to tear up a car if we don't slow folks down in spots.

I didn't make my originally stated goals. I was carrying a cone on each run. However, my raw times were good enough that, if I work on cleaning that kind of driving up, I can win AS. This is progress, this is good. I've got NO complaints.

Predictably, Eric was FTS today...carrying a cone with him! Good God that guy can drive, and he's absolutely money in the S2000. I hope I can coerce him into driving with me more. He likes the car a lot. To ride with him is a revelation - he's always got slip angle on the car, all the time. Always "just a little bit" sideways. He's got it singing and dancing. It's something to see, for sure.

I'm finding that the one problem with the S2000 is getting on the hot cam mid corner gives us about a 10 degree step of the rear out to the side. It's wonderfully catchable, but (as I found out in the bracket race) once you do, you can find yourself way off line and skipping a gate. DNF - but no need to be a hero

Though I finished out of the trophies due to a lot of cones, I'm really happy with my raw times. Clean that up, and I won AS. I was also mostly hitting cones with the rear of the car, which is good, as far as hitting cones goes. The aggression is coming to me.

BTW - grats to Keith Quistorff for being not only clean, but fast enough to take the class...again. Damn you Keith, if you weren't such a nice guy, I'd hate you...but I can't.

Big thanks also to Whitney for putting my tires on his trailer, while I plan to wrestle with installing the hitch on the S2000, so I can go pick up Spratte's tire trailer and finally start using the thing.

Fun times!

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Karl S.
2014 Baby, 2014 House, 2013 Ford Focus ST, 2013 BMW 328i, 1994 Mercedes E320
(Insert passive aggressive signature line here)

You think I would've told you that I already worked that out with Mike, before I called you. Nah, there's no fun in that.

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In need of car.

Be a hero, it's more fun that way! You saw what it did for me!!!

Yeah, I wasn't thrilled with the cone counts on course but I'm not smart enough to know how to slow down the taxiway to a safe speed without using lots of cones.

It sounds like we did put one car off the taxiway and it *almost* got to the tree line, but it wasn't injured. I know a few of us visited the grass off of the main runway.

Thanks again to all the competitors who made this event work well! It was a long day for sure, but I think the folks that stuck around for the challenge had fun.

Scott

The taxiway was my favorite part. I was kind of surprised people were hitting so many cones there. Although, I would like to know how many cones they counted on my 3rd run when I took out the lane change. I really enjoyed box just before the sweeper. It made getting on the power and through the sweeper quickly a little bit challenging.

Great course and thanks to everyone for all their hard work. Another Tarheel masterpeice.

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Silver Honda
Green Ford
Blue/White Suzuki
Red Triumph
Grey BMW

"Never let life be shaped by fear of its end"

No, you're a towel!

Marcus, it was scored as a DNF. I'll look at the raw sheets when I get home to see if they still tracked the cone count.

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Todd Breakey
STS 42 - 1992 Sunburst Miata
Dammit!
"You souldn't play leap frog with a porcupine. You might get hurt." - Eliza

Let's just round it up and call it *all* of them.

I was working the next station down and the station working that area had a hard time getting the course back together. I went over there to see what the trouble was and it was pretty clear-- there were painted box outlines everywhere!!! They were mostly "X'd" out but after that many cars running over them, it was getting hard to tell which were X'd and which weren't.

If we use that area again with a ton of cones, it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on the X'd boxes perhaps mid-day to make sure they stay marked. Well, that is if Marcus is still running with us.

Jim

Big thanks from me, too!

I liked the course, if only because it let me work on one of the things from the Evo school - tightening my slalom lines. Even if I went a little *too* far (6 cones! )

The bracket race was fun - even though I only got 2 runs. At least I got to trash-talk and play the strategy game for a minute or two

It would be cool to do a whole event like that, with losers against losers for a full set of runs (if the timers/scorers don't go insane by the end of the day).

Seriously though - as the son of a cancer survivor, it meant alot to be able to participate in such a great event.

Hrmm. I did not miss the gates, I took them out.

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Silver Honda
Green Ford
Blue/White Suzuki
Red Triumph
Grey BMW

"Never let life be shaped by fear of its end"

No, you're a towel!

I delivered chalk to the courseworkers during the second heat after I learned about boxes disappearing.

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Has no responsibility whatsoever.

It sucks that we can't use paint anymore.

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Todd Breakey
STS 42 - 1992 Sunburst Miata
Dammit!
"You souldn't play leap frog with a porcupine. You might get hurt." - Eliza

Good event. I think it was a ton to organize and all in all, it went together pretty well.

Although I wasn't thrilled about coning out, I think the car is fast, even though I hate how the Crossfire feels.

1. Recirculating ball steering sucks. No feel, slow turning. We will be adding some toe out to improve initial turn in, as well as adding a BIG front bar.

2. Terrible brake feel. On my first run, I thought I had no brakes. These things need to be bled badly, for you could hold the pedal down, and if you pressed hard, would get another 1-2" (yes inches) of travel before the pedal would be firm. Very disturbing. The car will head back to the dealer (aren't warranties great ) to have the brakes bled properly. If they can't do it, then I will.

3. Handling wise, the car isn't too bad, and the traction control and electronic stability program aren't extremely invasive. I really tried to drift the car through the offsets on the 3rd run and the ESP took over. I really think you can't spin that car...

To cone away top pax on my 2nd run ever in the car and pax 5th of 137 sitting on cone, I feel ok about (I think a lot people coned away insane runs) - AB

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'14 Toyota Sequoia Platinum 4WD
Super Westerfield Bros - '93 Integra - LeChump Du Jour
STX 93 - Scion FR-S

I got into the 63's on my last run, and coned it away. Out of ALL of the cones I hit yesterday (I rarely have problems hitting cones -- not sure what the heck was going on yesterday), this last run cone was not the result of overdriving like most of the others. I just turned in a tick too early on one of the main straight gates, thought I was good, and brushed a cone.

I'm not too fond of these Hoosiers even with the front bar now on the car. They corner at higher slip angles than all recent R-comp tires I'm used to driving on (Dunlop Super Sport Race, Pirelli Corsa (VERY low slip angles), Nitto NT-01 (have these on M5 now and like them very much)). So the higher slip angles needed plus the more unforgiving peak at the top of the tractive force curve, makes these a challenge to adapt to -- perhaps I'm just getting too old...I need to keep repeating: "change is good, change is good".

Chuck

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Current stable:
2019 BMW M2 Competition slicktop 6MT
2011 BMW M3 sedan slicktop 6MT
2007 BMW 328i wagon (slushbox for now)
1975 CanAm 125MX2

If we're playing that game, I'd like to have not coned my 61.1xx away.

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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.