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a write up of my first race last weekend at cmp:

http://racing.cerient.net/?p=133

snow in South Carolina? you expect me to believe that you were fast and that it snowed in South Carolina too?

good job Jason. good luck with RA.

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BenchWarmer Motorsports

another one of those damn LeMons heads

just another Chump

we are an Autocross Club Dammit............

no kidding, it's hard to believe. next thing you know we'll be hearing that you changed your own oil or something equally ridiculous.

Congrats on your first week-end. Great write up.

So you guys really didn't have a problem with being asked to clear the track of snow with your personal vehicles?

(Sorry... that's the organizer in me)

Great write up man... jealous as hell

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Stacy King
Midlife Crisis Participant

i would have gone out there and eaten the snow if asked, anything to get on track! one guy took his 911 turbo out, he was having a blast sliding it all over the place (and he only spun it once).

pantas said that this was SOP at miller where it snows frequently but is usually sunny.

I can understand being willing to do it... but I'm having a hard time being willing to ASK people to do it, that's all. To me, that's asking people to put their personal property at risk above and beyond normal safe conditions. I might ask my staff if they'd be willing to do it... and I'd be willing to do it myself... and I'd be willing to pay the track to do it with their equipment... but having participants do it would be an absolute last resort.

Of course, I wasn't there and I'm simply basing my reaction on the image of the 3-4" of snow in the paddock in one of your pics.



Have you seen Miller? I don't think there's anything to hit except the wall along the front straight right?

I'm just sayin'

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Stacy King
Midlife Crisis Participant

we weren't racing around in trucks, just driving slowly to break up the snow. like 20-30 mph, completely harmless, people jumped at the chance to help. the alternative was to do nothing and then not drive all day.

http://www.trilug.org/~jason/img_0034.jpg

And nobody was worried about the relative change in safety from an off where you're suddenly on snow (and probably worse, soft slush) instead of grass? I know grass sucks, but snow has got to be worse...

I'm talking about once the track was dry and you went out in race cars.


--Donnie

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My Blog

if they were i never heard a complaint. not so different from rain, the track dries out a lot faster than the grass. and it the snow pretty much melted by the afternoon anyway, i never gave it a moment's thought.