"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
06/01/2014 at 17:57 • Filed to: AUTOCROSS, WICHITA
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"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
06/01/2014 at 17:57 • Filed to: AUTOCROSS, WICHITA | 3
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Track sucked for me, the big slalom on the way out I needed to shift to 3rd and then back down to 2nd and it was killing me. The new tires did amazingly well though, and I still had a blast! Met up with !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and got a ride in the racing boat, that was exciting.
I stayed true to my cone killer sticker and had no clean runs.
Run 1 was fairly clean, only one cone. Also really slow
Run 2 I had !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! riding shotgun. This was technically my best run of the day, but I still hit a cone
Run 3 was pretty freaking terrible. I had !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! 's buddy with me this time, hit 3 cones
Run 4 was awful. I screwed up at the start which got in my head a bit, then totally messed up the slalom and just went balls to the walls and drove my ass off the rest of the way hitting another cone. I wish I could have gotten another run in, I was getting pretty fast but making too many mistakes. The Sonic was oversteering like a boss on this run as well, which made quite an impression on some people apparently. I thought I was going to spin twice
As far as times were concerned I was doing alright from what I could see. There were a couple of Mini's in my heat and I was only a few seconds off the slower of the two, but it was still a JCW so it's not much a fair fight. The second heat had more comparable cars but I haven't seen the times. I'll post an update when I find out later.
Oh, and the cars there were cool. A handful of WRX's, a couple FRS/BRZs, some Acura RSXs, an NSX, a bunch of Corvettes, and a real mini Mini. I was bummed the NSX and Corvettes all ran in my heat though...
BadgerSpeed
> Jayhawk Jake
06/02/2014 at 08:38 |
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Interesting course. It is hard to tell from the video, but my guess the reason why you struggled a little is you were not looking far enough ahead. There was at least a few transitions in every video that you took a bad line... which is usually because of not looking far enough. Keep trying and having fun!
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Jayhawk Jake
> BadgerSpeed
06/02/2014 at 08:50 |
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No, I was looking ahead. The gear change in the slalom was killing me there. Elsewhere some of my lines weren't great, I'm far from perfect, but it wasn't for lack of trying.
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BadgerSpeed
> Jayhawk Jake
06/02/2014 at 08:53 |
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Don't get me wrong. I'm not bashing you. Just trying to offer some friendly advice. You may be looking ahead, but what I saw in each video there were a couple of places of bad lines that I doubt were all caused by bad shifts. My two cents is that some portions of the course you were not looking far enough ahead.
Keep practicing and having fun!