my race today

Magnethead

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Well, Kansas said last night that insurance problems wouldn't let me run.

So i showed up without a race ride, and camera in hand for a backup plan. Meandering the pits, i found a fellow with a DSP (D stock Prepered- meaning nowhere near stock, but still road legal) 02 Cavalier who agreed to let me run his car in a co-driver configuration. Wasn't till after we registered and all, that he told me it was a stick.

Only times i drove a stick were my friend's mid-40's Jeep and 70's VW bus.

Cavalier was completely different. I was a CHALLENGING course and nobody got 4 good clean runs all day. My best lap was a 43.6 seconds. The Owner's best lap was a 41.6 second lap. Quickest lap of the day for street cars were a 35.016 second pass by i believe a yellow corvette pitted next to us (it was either them or the camaro with a top fuel wing on it). Dr. Woods ran F107 @ 34 and high change i believe.

I'll post pictures when i get home on my laptop. Gonna pack up and leave now.

The car is lowered 3" plus sport comp tires, rear toe adjusted and all 4 cambers adjusted, and he has a probe pyrometer and every run there was a tire adjustment made somewhere.
 
Magnethead, sounds like great fun.

btw take a look at the photo I left for you on the Sports car thread.
 
Magnethead, you will have to start posting photos using tinypic, and get larger photos posted.

The question is, did you have "fun in the run".
 
Magnethead, you will have to start posting photos using tinypic, and get larger photos posted.

The question is, did you have "fun in the run".

Thay're thumbnails. click them ;)

seriously, the tires yesterday looked like everybody was running goodyears @ IMS. Pennnington is one of the more popular events on the schedule (we visit it 4 more times this year i think) because it's really grippy for a parking lot. the only trouble, is that it shreds tires from too much grip. The wind just kept blowing the rubber across the track..there was prbably a 1" berm at the end of the parking lot just of built up rubber. The crack sealer tar probably didn't help anything..the high powered guys were complaining that they were sliding around on the rubber and tar grit everywhere.

car i drove (owner was 8, i was 3) Bill is taking tire temp and pressure readings. Keeps a complete log of everything he adjusts. all 4 tires were cambered in from the drop springs, the left rear was toed out, and the right rear was toed in (he hasn't gotten around to toeing it out yet).



results at the track (grouped by class)

 
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