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[PeteN95]

I did a local Autocross last weekend and did OK. I ran Time Only (TO) since I only do these once in a while. I could run ST3, which is like STS in SCCA. I got 7th out of 19 cars running time only. Here are the results, that Taurus that was fastest is very quick!

TOAM - Time Only AM (top)
# T Name Car # Year Make/Model Run1 (c,g) Run2 (c,g) Run3 (c,g) Run4 (c,g) Points
1 T Frederick Pascual 91 1991 Ford/Yamaha Taurus SHO 79.129 (1,2) 68.383 (1,1) 57.544 (1,0) 54.229 (0,0) 100.000
2 T Peter Wilson 777 2005 Lotus Elise 79.564 (0,2) 68.076 (0,1) 56.643 (0,0) 58.209 (0,0) 95.738
3 T Tom Morrow 76 1983 Porsche 944 61.317 (0,0) 59.660 (0,0) 58.603 (0,0) 57.882 (0,0) 93.689
4 T TJ McGeary 7 1991 Mazda Miata 62.035 (0,0) 60.161 (0,0) 58.707 (0,0) 59.233 (0,0) 92.372
5 T Mike Osborn 67 1983 Porsche 944 72.857 (0,1) 59.703 (0,0) 58.969 (0,0) 61.063 (0,0) 91.962
6 T Bryce Allen 211 1987 BMW 325is 60.737 (0,0) 60.249 (0,0) 59.183 (0,0) 60.148 (1,0) 91.629
7 Peter Nielson 95 1998 BMW 318ti 64.335 (1,0) 61.129 (0,0) 61.249 (0,0) 60.092 (0,0) 90.243
8 Chris Miller 13 1982 Mazda Rx-7 DSQ (0,0) 66.573 (0,0) 60.490 (0,0) 60.151 (0,0) 90.155
9 Emmanuel Athans 15 1987 BMW 325is 65.600 (0,0) 62.239 (0,0) 60.916 (0,0) 60.330 (0,0) 89.887
10 Shane Gottula 11 2001 Toyota Celica GT-S 75.955 (0,1) 61.510 (0,0) 60.600 (0,0) 60.357 (0,0) 89.847
11 Kris Otnes 111 2005 Subaru WRX wagooooon 64.934 (0,0) 61.720 (0,0) 61.477 (0,0) 60.539 (0,0) 89.577
12 Brian Roberts 112 1990 BMW 325i 63.795 (0,0) 62.016 (0,0) 60.686 (0,0) 61.077 (0,0) 89.360
13 Gerald Umayam 28 2002 Honda S2000 62.674 (0,0) 63.455 (0,0) 61.646 (0,0) 60.727 (0,0) 89.300
14 La' Akea Siverts 129 2003 Subaru Impreza WRX Wagon 64.778 (0,0) 62.777 (0,0) 62.516 (0,0) 62.310 (0,0) 87.031
15 Michelle Miller 182 1982 Mazda Rx-7 62.676 (0,0) 72.212 (0,1) 62.622 (0,0) 89.979 (1,2) 86.597
16 John Harlow 101 2003 VW GTI 64.355 (0,0) 63.165 (0,0) 63.096 (0,0) 63.158 (0,0) 85.947
17 Bryan Thomas 805 1999 Mazda Miata DNF (0,0) 72.231 (2,0) 93.091 (3,2) 66.063 (0,0) 82.087
18 Ted Ojeda 17 1991 BMW 325ic 83.812 (0,1) 68.858 (0,0) 78.366 (0,1) 66.985 (0,0) 80.957
19 Ann Wilson 151 1992 Mazda Miata 122.444 (0,5) 72.136 (0,0) 71.514 (0,0) 67.828 (0,0) 79.951

[Dan I]

Nice work! What's your setup info? Tires/pressures, suspension, alignment settings?

Dan

[BleMW]

the girl got last.

(simply an observation...)

[Bam2002]

I wanna see the taurus that beat a Lotus..

[larryn]

Originally Posted by Bam2002

I wanna see the taurus that beat a Lotus..

LOL! I was thinking the same thing, but then again, everybody has to be terrible at some point in their driving career. The Elise dropped by over 20 seconds from their first run. Gotta be a 1st timer, or somebody who has not done autocross in a looooong time.

[PeteN95]

Originally Posted by Dan I

What's your setup info? Tires/pressures, suspension, alignment settings?

40psi front, 38psi rear, and drive it like I stole it! Sorry, but not too serious about it.

I wanna see the taurus that beat a Lotus

It was pretty wild, lowered, big race tires, no interior, and the motor sounded very strong. The driver was also very, very aggressive! The reason the Lotus was 20 seconds slower on his first run was he missed 2 gates (10 sec./each). By the way, fast time of day was an Exige in the hands of a fast guy, mid 50, about 1/2 sec. quicker than a Viper coupe.

[mohaughn]

The very early ford SHO is a very fast car. It has a yamaha engine in it born from yamaha's racing program. I had a friend that had one in high school and he could outrun the 5.0 mustangs from the same time frame. He was also a pretty good drag racer.

[larryn]

I've never heard of an event where you are not DSQ'ed for missing a gate. That's strange. Two seconds for a cone, 'Did not Finish' for going off course.

What club is that with?

[Bam2002]

We have 2 TIs running with our club.
http://www.fscbmwcca.org/results07.html

I run the one in class B. It has Bielstein PSS9 kit and R compounds.

The other one in A class is the same as me, but with Dinan TB, chip, Swaybars, Cams and Aluim flywheel. However he blew the headgasket at sebring last month. So now he is getting a metrics head with huge cams and a stoker kit.

Also mohaughn was out at an event . he needs to come back now that I have my suspension in the car.

B

[PeteN95]

Originally Posted by larryn

I've never heard of an event where you are not DSQ'ed for missing a gate. That's strange. Two seconds for a cone, 'Did not Finish' for going off course. What club is that with?

This is with the Western WA Sport Car Council (WWSCC), but those are the same penalties that the local SCCA group used when I raced with them many years ago? 10 sec. for a gate, 2 sec. for a cone. I've never seen a course where you could make up 10 seconds by missing one gate! One guy was red flagged for a passenger having his hand out the window and it's an immediate DNF if you run over the timing wires, which actually happened a couple times.