Aug 1st RallyX @ OCS

Carl Fisher · **Posted:** Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:04 pm

Great event today! 2 really fast and fun courses, and a full spectrum of conditions from slick to sweet to a little dusty by afternoon. And really beautiful weather. Thanks to Charlie and Pete for chairing the event, for Chris and Ash for pulling it together, and everyone else who made it happen!

RichardNuss · **Posted:** Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:20 am

I agree. Thanks all! I had a great time.

The Audi only needs a few small things fixed before Sept 5th at BMW Farm.

Make sure to pre-register for the 5th, so that we'll hit the 25 minimum to hold the event.

The afternoon course was FAST and open. I think I liked the muddy morning course better.

Here are a few cell phone videos of my afternoon runs. Jeremy Gast's Forester is included in the 4th one. You can see that a slick spot remained on the track even in the afternoon, after the second pass through the crossover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLNAXtWSavw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9decLgakuOc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5AjSVxnD2g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b---53EmQr8

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Sun Aug 02, 2009 2:47 pm

it was def a good day to had by all. Still trying to get the mud out from under the forester. I wish i would have had more time between my afternoon runs to ponder what i was doing wrong ont he back side after the cross over. Oh well 1st still works.

Great course charlie and pete.

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Sun Aug 02, 2009 2:54 pm

thanks for the heads up on the video. It points out where i lost prob 2 seconds on each of my afternoon runs I just couldnt make that dang turn.

The Audi looked Great.!!!

RichardNuss wrote:

I agree. Thanks all! I had a great time.

The Audi only needs a few small things fixed before Sept 5th at BMW Farm.

Make sure to pre-register for the 5th, so that we'll hit the 25 minimum to hold the event.

The afternoon course was FAST and open. I think I liked the muddy morning course better.

Here are a few cell phone videos of my afternoon runs. Jeremy Gast's Forester is included in the 4th one. You can see that a slick spot remained on the track even in the afternoon, after the second pass through the crossover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLNAXtWSavw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9decLgakuOc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5AjSVxnD2g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b---53EmQr8

ChrisSuich · **Posted:** Sun Aug 02, 2009 5:13 pm

jeremy gast wrote:

thanks for the heads up on the video. It points out where i lost prob 2 seconds on each of my afternoon runs I just couldnt make that dang turn.

The secret to exiting the afternoon crossover on the 2nd pass was to turn really early!

ChrisSuich · **Posted:** Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:52 pm

I have a bunch of pictures up at
http://picasaweb.google.com/csuich/2009_0801RallyXTrackInField#

Plus one in car video of my fastest afternoon run at the end of the album.
54.3xx seconds

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:15 am

Sorry guys, but I had to leave before the trophies were handed out. 3rd place overall in a 1WD car with 71HP and over 1000 runs, ain't too bad if I do say so myself. Gotta love the General Lei!

Michael Czeiszperger · **Joined:** Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:35 am **Posts:** 861

http://picasaweb.google.com/m/zoom?unam ... Height=268

Take a look at that body roll! Did I almost roll my car?

The only reason for my 3rd place finish was the first heat in the muck, which was just like the high school fun I had in Ohio doing donuts in empty frozen parking lots in an 8 cylinder Ford LTD station wagon.

The dry heat, however was a different story... Oh well, maybe with a little practice 4WD SOT will dominated by Foresters :-)

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:10 am

ah no your a long way from rolling :twisted:

forester will rule the world!!!!

Sad not I am out for the 5th, footballs game start, so knightdale knights mighty mights!!

BriceJohnson · **Joined:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:33 am **Posts:** 2230

That was certainly different than what I was used to. Very fun, but very different. Thanks to Chris and Keith for letting me drive the moo-mobile, it was certainly a handful. I started to get it a bit more in the afternoon, I was kind of overwhelmed in the morning session, turning WAY too late. I liked that I got to experience a lot of different conditions too. I was definitely better when there was more grip, but I think I learned more in the morning session in the slop. It was truly eye opening.

Sorry to the course workers who I scared on my first run in the morning.

RichardNuss · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:18 pm

Michael Czeiszperger wrote:

The only reason for my 3rd place finish was...

Michael Czeiszperger · **Joined:** Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:35 am **Posts:** 861

You misunderstand: I did better in the muck, and wouldn't have trophies if it had been all dry.

RichardNuss · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:14 pm

Michael Czeiszperger wrote:

You misunderstand: I did better in the muck, and wouldn't have trophies if it had been all dry.

You are right! I totally got that backwards from reading it. Was just poking fun anyway.

Pete Guthrie · **Posted:** Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:37 pm

i think we got two more rallycrossers, out of last weekends events. even if they were driving a car that ran out of gas a few times! the morning, i was driving poorly. too many 360s in my wrx the day b4.. that was too much fun, was'nt it micheal? anyway. the afternoon was great great.. i am VERY glad you all liked the course design.. i even made a successes-full dry run b4 y'all showed up.. in our f250 2wd.haha. even in the muck.. with a huge ground clearence advantage over the toyota, whom i was following, and massive torque, the turbo was not that peaky, dont worry, i went slow.. :roll: but it was still funny. i only had to realllly slow down for was the slalom.. four door truck with a 6 foot bed and huge ground clearence, not meant for slaloms. Yes, my father got it stuck when.. he stopped it in the mud.. to drop off some cones, which we were packing in the bed.. and it sank because it weighs around 3 tonnes.. haah.. we need to fix the bumper, but it is ok other than that. good times.. thank you for the dnf recall.. i was sooooooooooo bummed about that.

Michael Czeiszperger · **Joined:** Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:35 am **Posts:** 861

I was checking the race results from Aug., and noticed both Foresters came in ahead of this really fast looking car:

Hey, I don't know anything about driving, so the most obvious conclusion is that stickers must slow the car down :-)

Or maybe its that plane part that's glued to the trunk is too heavy?

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