CSCC Points Event #8

This is the second time I have gone to this site. It's not exactly my favorite site because the road conditions are pretty bad- potholes, ruts, bumps, cracks, etc. But I didn't really care much about that because today I can finally pick up my spare set of wheels and tires! Big thanks to Lee Miller for selling them to me!

I was so excited to try out the Falken Azenis Rt615's that were mounted on two of the wheels, but I knew that I wouldn't have time to change my wheels and walk the course. So I decided not to even though I wanted to really bad! Oh well, there's always next time. :)

Before I walked the course, I knew there was going to be a bunch of slaloms just like last time. There was. It's ok though because this time I can practice the slaloms in dry conditions instead of rainstorm conditions like I did in the last CSCC event.

I ended up placing second against the same guy from the first CSCC event who has an ACR SRT-4 who was running the tires that I am planning on getting- the Dunlop Direzza Z1 Star Spec. His ACR was nearly fully setup and was faster than me by 3.812 seconds. We'll see what happens when I get -2 deg. negative camber and the wider tires that he was using.

Indy Region Points Event 4

This was my first event after not driving my car for four months. I wasn't sure how not autocrossing for four months would affect me until it was time to go to the event. My driving didn't change much, but I was really unprepared for the event.

One major thing that I forgot do before the event was charge my air compressor. So it ended up dying before the first tire was close to done. Thinking that this wasn't a big deal because "everyone" should have an air compressor, I walked around and asked several people. I asked about 20 people and every one of them did not have an air compressor. Crazyyy... Since I wasted a lot of time asking, I decided to just walk the course and worry about it once I'm on grid.

Once I was in grid with about 40 cars in my heat, I looked around to see if anyone had a compressor that I could borrow. No one had an air compressor, but one person had an air tank that I could borrow. Only problem was that there wasn't enough air to fill all of my tires. So instead of running the usual 47psi front/ 50psi rear, I was forced to run 43psi front/ 32psi rear.

To make my day worse, I was told wrong about the run order. So while I was working on my tires, I was told that I was next in line. I panicked because I didn't want to hold up the cars, so I threw my helmet on and rushed over to the start line. So I drove my first run all panicky. The second one went a lot better. Then for some reason on the third run, I forgot to put my window up, so my contacts dried up for awhile I hit a couple cones. But it was a lot faster than my second run. After it was all done, I had to stand on my second run and ended up being three tenths away from first. Not so good. I'll be sure to come prepared for the next event!

Not Too Good To Be True!

The results finally posted and it looks like the results I got weren't too good to be true! Surprisingly, all of my runs were clean! Here are the results for the Gymkharna Star autocross:

Fort Wayne Region: Gymkharna Star Solo #2

This will be the last event that I'll be able to go to before I leave for Minnesota to visit my parents and make a little bit of money for the summer. Maybe a set of tires for autocross? ;)

The Gymkharna Star autocross was held at the same site I autocrossed at for the first time almost two years ago!

The course was really tight again. Not much choice for line. It was a who-can-get-closer-to-the-cone battle more than anything else. That was okay for me because I still need to practice getting "Nationals" close.

During the drivers meeting, I remembered why I enjoyed going to the Fort Wayne events so much. Seat time! They always give out several runs as well as $1 fun runs because there are usually only a small amount of entries that show up. Today, we had six runs!

After I ran my first run, I was told by one of the drivers in the first heat that people were struggling to get near 60 seconds. I found out first hand what he was talking about. In my first four runs, I wasn't able to break sixty seconds until the fifth and sixth runs. I thought it was too good to be true that I broke 60, thinking that maybe I hit a cone somewhere. So I went to timing as soon as I finished my last two runs and asked whether or not my last two runs were coned- unfortunately, they were still processing the results. Then while I was walking to my car to clean up and leave grid, I noticed that staff was telling everyone it was time to leave even though there were still a few more cars to make their final run. Later on, I found out that it was because one of the cars spun out and hit several of our sponsors' company cars. The car that spun out hit one car, pushed it into another, and pushed both cars into a company van. I don't think anyone was injured. But we were kicked out immediately so I never got to find out whether or not my runs were clean. So I'll have to wait a couple weeks or more because this region hasn't found someone to be their webmaster yet. I guess this was the first and last time that I would autocross at this site...