Halloween Autocross - registration opens up on 10/1

[larryn]

I am pretty sure that was Ralph's design, with Rob helping out. It's great to have some additional talent in the course design pool! That's really an art.

[and 1]

Originally Posted by larryn

Excellent job guys! Mike taking about Christo too!!! That's amazing. Andy with the 2nd slot on C, by an amazingly thin margin.

Looks like when things dried out and warmed up, people were pulling majorly quicker times! Would have LOVED to drive it. Looked like a very fun course on the walk thru.

thanks larry! christo must not be used to his car yet

andy really kicked it up a notch on saturday...he might have been 2nd in C but IIRC he had the fastest lap time. i guess the m3 sway bar works!

in other news, the 3-way tie for 3rd place in B was broken, with baker coming out on top! maybe ming needs to spend less time going sideways and more time going forwards

[arrutled]

Originally Posted by and 1

thanks larry! christo must not be used to his car yet

andy really kicked it up a notch on saturday...he might have been 2nd in C but IIRC he had the fastest lap time. i guess the m3 sway bar works!

in other news, the 3-way tie for 3rd place in B was broken, with baker coming out on top! maybe ming needs to spend less time going sideways and more time going forwards

Christo started to figure his rig out toward the end there, he dropped below 70 on his last lap. that sway bar did wonders, best 200 dollars I have spent on the car without a doubt. Also, congrats to Brian for winning the Cone King Award on his last lap!!!

[Artmasterx]

Nice driving everyone.

I will see about getting the infamously unintelligible plots for our results posted in the next day or so.

I will have to not be lazy next time and actually put on my auto-x tires. Note to everyone: General Exclaim UHP tires are not great autocross tires... great for everyday use though. I think the 225 UHPs cost me about 2-3 seconds compared to the 235 Goodyear GS-D3s that I normally run. Oh well, lesson learned.

I look forward to next year.

[and 1]

Originally Posted by Artmasterx

I will see about getting the infamously unintelligible plots for our results posted in the next day or so.

hahaha looking forward to it!

[larryn]

Seems it ran well without me! 97 Drivers and done by 3:30 (was a good decision to have it end a bit earlier and 7 runs each, with Halloween trick or treaters on the roads). Many thanks to those of you who helped get things tucked away!

[larryn]

Originally Posted by Artmasterx

I will have to not be lazy next time and actually put on my auto-x tires. Note to everyone: General Exclaim UHP tires are not great autocross tires... great for everyday use though. I think the 225 UHPs cost me about 2-3 seconds compared to the 235 Goodyear GS-D3s that I normally run. Oh well, lesson learned.

I look forward to next year.

I have UHPs on my other car.. was hoping they'd be bald a year ago, but they wear like iron, unfortunately. Look on the sidewall of them. I noticed that they wear a little M&S tag too. I'm sure they cost you a lot of time.

They certainly make things interesting on my 'Ti on the autocross course!

[arrutled]

Originally Posted by Artmasterx

Nice driving everyone.

I will see about getting the infamously unintelligible plots for our results posted in the next day or so.

I will have to not be lazy next time and actually put on my auto-x tires. Note to everyone: General Exclaim UHP tires are not great autocross tires... great for everyday use though. I think the 225 UHPs cost me about 2-3 seconds compared to the 235 Goodyear GS-D3s that I normally run. Oh well, lesson learned.

I look forward to next year.

Those bastards screeched like hell!!!

[Artmasterx]

Here are the results. Andy laid down a monster time, but that had nothing to do with the wet morning .

Mike and Brian both should receive the attendance award to making every one, though it seemed like Brian was only half-there a couple of events...

[Artmasterx]

Originally Posted by larryn

I have UHPs on my other car.. was hoping they'd be bald a year ago, but they wear like iron, unfortunately. Look on the sidewall of them. I noticed that they wear a little M&S tag too. I'm sure they cost you a lot of time.

They certainly make things interesting on my 'Ti on the autocross course!

That's ok... I was curious how they would do, and having all of you guys to gauge against gave me a real indication of what tires are worth.

Originally Posted by arrutled

Those bastards screeched like hell!!!

They did screech like a bat out of hell once it dried up... It didn't help that I was sideways and half out of control during half of the run with Andy.

Good times regardless!

[larryn]

Originally Posted by Artmasterx

... though it seemed like Brian was only half-there a couple of events...

Half there, half assed, half sober. He's done the half-trifecta this season.


Great job, as usual on the graph. Cool to see that lone Andy dot on there too. I'm sure next season there will be many dots in that negative space. Great improvements!

[ML]

I couldn't tell anything about the new setup on my car in the wet, spinning twice with Andy (I still think it's his fault). However, once thing dried out, it was like driving a different car. The plow that I have been fighting is essentially gone. All three afternoon runs were 74 second runs (the first one was with 2 cones, next two were clean). So the time was consistent but each run was very different, clearly messing up different features on each of the first two runs. The third run was relatively smooth throughout, but there was a ton of time left on the course. The bottom line is that the change in setup is very good but I need to learn how to drive the car with the new setup.

[arrutled]

Originally Posted by ML

I couldn't tell anything about the new setup on my car in the wet, spinning twice with Andy (I still think it's his fault). However, once thing dried out, it was like driving a different car. The plow that I have been fighting is essentially gone. All three afternoon runs were 74 second runs (the first one was with 2 cones, next two were clean). So the time was consistent but each run was very different, clearly messing up different features on each of the first two runs. The third run was relatively smooth throughout, but there was a ton of time left on the course. The bottom line is that the change in setup is very good but I need to learn how to drive the car with the new setup.

your car spins really nicely! Ill take the blame for spin one . I bet that if you just used afternoon times that chart would tell the true story

[Artmasterx]

Here are the results after only taking into account the PM runs...

[arrutled]

ahhh thats better!

[and 1]

seems like the pm-only averages everyone out a little

[arrutled]

Its so interesting to how close all the class leaders are.

[ML]

Here's some expansion of Rob's data analysis. The chart showing simply the % difference from the average winner times should be the same as Robs. I've added charts to look at % difference between the fastest AM and PM laps to the average winner times and AM and PM session average to the average winner times.

I've also included Christo, because I thought the impact of his changing cars was interesting, and Audra, since she is obviously thinking about buying a 1er .

If anybody thinks I've posted too much personal info with the names on the charts, PM me so I can make a change. Also, I don't have the data from Event 1. Larry, if you send it to me, I'll add it.

[arrutled]

Well done sir.

[and 1]

good thing my new job is starting off a little slowly, cuz these are going to take a little while to digest. very cool tho - thanks mike