SCCA Championship Runoffs

Like the Super Bowl...where the Giants beat the #1 New England Patriots, the "best" don't always win...and my car did look really shiny and clean...maybe I should have done the Castle-Hanauma TT instead...

I was the STS "Ace"...if only for a couple of weeks. After looking forward to today all week...FTW!!!...I should have probably worn the "King" socks...


My *Best Run.....This WAS my best run, but I coned it away 1 d@mn second after it started...and I knew I was lined up a little crooked, but I STILL didn't think I was going to hit that cone. It would have been good for a 33.217. Lucky I did have a 33.4 in the bag cause Aaron, on his new Azenis 615 shod IS was right there with a 33.5 - whew...


The *Best STS Run.....Congratulations!!! to my brother and his fwd 6 wagon who won the STS championship today with his 2nd run of 32.9 seconds! But this fun run, even while driving too wide into the finishing chute, would have been good for 32.2 something except...for a few cones at the finish. My day was also made a little longer when he drove MY rwd Bimmer in the fun runs to a 33.0 something...Holy Smokes!!! You gotta DRIVE!!!

Today's course was WAY WAY harder to drive compared to the last race as the turns were so wide open that you could take 10 different lines through the turns - of which probably only 2 were correct. You just had to somehow figure out which one was the fastest for your car.

With a couple of pointers from my brother and Curtis Lee, THE all-time reigning ACE of Hawaii Autocross, I managed to run a 33.4 with my brother in my car...and on another run I even managed to get the beginning 1/3rd of the course as fast as my brother - according to the data logger.

Now...all I need to do is somehow put that 1/3 together with a better 2/3rds and I may be dealing Aces again...something easy to say but hard to do. That's why this sport is so great...wait till March 30th!!!

RESULTS: http://www.sccahawaii.org/3-2-08.pdf