April 13th SCCA Hawaii Race
I was going so fast this past Sunday...I blew the grill right off my car!!! 
ALERT - Got the mojo back!!! For one week at least...
By luck...or maybe, as Aaron (a past STS racer) said, "this course was just made for my car"...for whatever reason, I had "IT" and finally squeaked ahead of my brother by 3/10ths of a second...
Like in the last couple of races, I thought for sure he would catch my best time of 30.363 on one of his runs...but his car was just too loose on this high speed course. According to the datalogger, we got up in the 40-45mph range in several spots...way more fun than last times course were my car hardly got out of the 30mph range.
Both wagons dropping anchor from 45mph...
Looking at the times, this was the best I've ever driven against the field cause even though I was only 40th overall, my PAX was 22nd and my brother's was 29th!
Considering the PAX rating is based on having the "best prepped car for your class," me and my brother did pretty d@mn good cause our cars are definetly not the "top dogs" in STS...but, I guess I DO have a BMW (non-sport package though). In fact, I think only one other car, a well driven STU classed RX8 on Advans, beat our times on street tires.
We got to stay for the fun run after, and we both felt that the track had a little more grip compared to the 4th heat only 20 minutes earlier. Real or imagined, I actually almost got into the 29s with two runs in the 30.00# range...wish I could have done that when it mattered!
Both me, my brother and my younger brother are thinking of bringing back the Eunos for the next race in July...maybe with some big arse rubber FTW!!! But if not, the 185 r-comp advans will have to do for now...
Results: http://www.sccahawaii.org/4-13-08.pdf
Vid of one of my brother's runs...
ALERT - Got the mojo back!!! For one week at least...By luck...or maybe, as Aaron (a past STS racer) said, "this course was just made for my car"...for whatever reason, I had "IT" and finally squeaked ahead of my brother by 3/10ths of a second...
Like in the last couple of races, I thought for sure he would catch my best time of 30.363 on one of his runs...but his car was just too loose on this high speed course. According to the datalogger, we got up in the 40-45mph range in several spots...way more fun than last times course were my car hardly got out of the 30mph range.
Both wagons dropping anchor from 45mph...
Looking at the times, this was the best I've ever driven against the field cause even though I was only 40th overall, my PAX was 22nd and my brother's was 29th!
Considering the PAX rating is based on having the "best prepped car for your class," me and my brother did pretty d@mn good cause our cars are definetly not the "top dogs" in STS...but, I guess I DO have a BMW (non-sport package though). In fact, I think only one other car, a well driven STU classed RX8 on Advans, beat our times on street tires.
We got to stay for the fun run after, and we both felt that the track had a little more grip compared to the 4th heat only 20 minutes earlier. Real or imagined, I actually almost got into the 29s with two runs in the 30.00# range...wish I could have done that when it mattered!
Both me, my brother and my younger brother are thinking of bringing back the Eunos for the next race in July...maybe with some big arse rubber FTW!!! But if not, the 185 r-comp advans will have to do for now...
Results: http://www.sccahawaii.org/4-13-08.pdf
Vid of one of my brother's runs...
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