"t0ast" (t0ast217)
05/07/2019 at 13:42 • Filed to: None
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"t0ast" (t0ast217)
05/07/2019 at 13:42 • Filed to: None | 4
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Mostly because a Civic Type R didn’t show up to stomp me again on Day 2, but I’ll take it. Anyway, on to the videos (now with fancy picture-in-picture):
Day 1
20th PAX / 30th raw overall (of 102), 2nd in DS (of 9)
D Street was among the groups that drew the Heat 1 short straw for the day, so cool temperatures and a fresh (read: pebble-y) surface made for a tricky start. After failing miserably at my first three runs, I mostly got my act together for the last two. Apart from running a little wide on some of the corners in the 2nd half of the course, I was content with my fastest run for the day. However, the aforementioned Civic Type R with a good driver behind the wheel still blew me away by ~1.3 seconds on this ~52 second course. I think even under more ideal circumstances, like fresh RE71Rs instead of a set that’s ~5 events away from retirement, upgrading from the OEM shocks, and cleaning up my lines a bit (worth maybe ~0.5), it still would have been a struggle. Oh well.
Day 2
14th PAX / 30th raw overall (of 102), 1st in DS (of 8)
The Day 2 course was reversed from Day 1 with minimal tweaks as usual for this venue. Thankfully the heats rotated forward for the next day, providing us with warmer temperatures and some clean driving lines. I got into the groove by the third run and held on with only a few hundredths of difference between it and the remaining runs (hence my reaction to seeing nearly the same result for the third time). There was probably another tenth or two to be found out there for me, but I’ll count any day like this where I can get the car to do almost exactly what I want it to do as a good one.
With MiDivs working like “nationals light” (Natty Lite?), overall standings were determined by combining the best times of each day. I have no doubt in my mind that the CTR would have taken the overall DS win, but without showing up the 2nd day to qualify, the victory fell to me by a margin of ~1.1 seconds combined.
Once the FR-S wears out its current set of RE71Rs, my husband (who was unfortunately out sick for this event) is wanting to bump it up into SSC to give us a better shot at Nationals again this year. Even with the forced downgrade in tire (Falken Azenis RT615K+), the suspension upgrades should keep things interesting. That, and we like the prospects of running against a truly “spec” class instead of the anticipated hot hatch / rally car (WRX, STI, Golf R, FoRS, and CTR) takeover of DS.
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> t0ast
05/07/2019 at 13:45 |
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Nice! Congrats.
AkursedX
> t0ast
05/07/2019 at 13:55 |
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Congrats!
All the turbo awd cars getting dumped to DS was really a kick in the nuts to the Toybarus. Changing classes seems like the best move as SSC has seemed to turn into a very competitive class and STX is probably 85% Toyobaru now.
I ran Falkens on my RX-8 prior to RE71's. And yes, they aren’t going to be the fastest tire, especially when its hot out. But they are much better on cold surfaces and I found that they communicated a lot better overall.
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t0ast
> AkursedX
05/07/2019 at 14:24 |
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Thanks, and while it does kinda suck to have to spend that extra money , it at least won’t get in the way of the FR-S’s daily duties too much like a full STX build might. What you said about the Falkens lines up with a lot about what we’ve heard about them so far, plus we’re looking forward to the added longevity of that compound coupled with being allowed an appropriate amount of camber.
syntax-check demands a 5 seater honda element
> t0ast
05/07/2019 at 14:46 |
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Nice runs! Camera tech is much better these days, I love the onscreen HUD.
My local autox has a rookie group they put you in for your first three runs. One week the site and day were changed at the last minute due to the weather. I placed first in a field of three cars and got to take home a hand sized small cone as a trophy.
Nowadays when my wife or mother complain about my driving I remind them that my driving is literally award winning.
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t0ast
> syntax-check demands a 5 seater honda element
05/07/2019 at 14:52 |
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Thanks! Fortunately the HUD was the easy part, with Garmin’s VIRB supporting bluetooth OBD2 readers right out of the box . The rest was just taking a little extra time to overlay and sync the interior video in some editing software.
That aside, I will definitely be borrowing that usage of “award winning driving”.
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syntax-check demands a 5 seater honda element
> t0ast
05/07/2019 at 14:58 |
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My favorite part is that my wife was supposed to go with me that weekend but since the date was changed she couldn’t go. She coulda been a contender!
Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
> t0ast
05/07/2019 at 15:20 |
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Nice job!
I know Tim from our region was there in his FoRS running DS and he’s gotten pretty quick over the past year. Wish I could’ve made it, but I was running in our region’s RallyX event.
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t0ast
> Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
05/07/2019 at 15:50 |
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Thanks! With all the cars being grouped up by class, I got a chance to talk to Tim for a bit. Nice guy, and he wound up taking that 2nd place spot in DS. It sounded like he hadn’t had much experience on big, open pads like Heartland Park going in to this event , so a respectable result all things considered.
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Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
> t0ast
05/07/2019 at 15:54 |
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Yeah, he’s a great guy. O ur runway here in Wichita Region only allows us “out and back” style courses. W e’re still significantly wider than Salina is though.
Jayhawk Jake
> t0ast
05/07/2019 at 17:12 |
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I think this was his first big pad event. I’m running against him in DS in Wichita, though I’m on the Falkens so he has an advantage. He had me by .001 at the last event but coned, so I took the win.