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Moderator992gntJul-16-07 04:43 PM
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Well I missed round 3 in Michigan, hopefully it doesn't come back to haunt me at the end of the season. Had I gone, no one would have been able to catch me in the points by season end. Oh well.

Round 4 was this past weekend at Mid Ohio. I knew my track record would fall, the question was by how much. The Corvettes were there in force and there was even a Viper GTS in my class (he was dog slow!). On saturday I lowered my personal best again by almost a second and a half. Unfortunately I was still slower than the corvettes. By 2 seconds. There will be no making this time up, so I'm not planning on winning any more events this season as long as they are showing up. Kinda sucks, but there is nothing I can do. I am wringing the car out for everything it's worth; it just needs more tire under it. Best lap was a 1:38.7

The surprise on saturday was after the last session spotting a large crack in the right front rotor, from the hat all the way to the rotor edge. On both the inboard and outboard disks. 1/8" wide. These are basically new DBA one piece rotors that are well over $400 a set, so I'm not a happy camper. Luckily most Evo guys are like us old DSM'ers, so I had a set of rotors waiting for me at the track the next morning. Threw those on along with a new set of slicks and went Z06 hunting.

No dice. I'm just too handicapped by tire size. The track was slower for most everyone on sunday, but I managed a 1:38.8 on the new tires. So the car is blindingly fast on 100 octane, so much so that tire spin was a huge problem all weekend. Oh, I had no antilock again (burnt through a wire 3" from the rotor!) so I'm really happy with the times all things considered.

The good news is that if the Corvette guys and I all finish the same as this past weekend for the last 2 events, I will win the Regional championship by 15 points (win = 100). Here's to consistency!

One more cool thing from the weekend. I was asked to start 'training' to drive the Pace Car for all of the race groups. There is a lot of sitting that happens, but when we get the call, look out, because it gets very intense. After spending most of saturday and sunday riding shotgun, and handling the radio work (3 different radios at once - NASA Race Control, F2000 Race Control, and Track Safety) for the F2000 races both days I got to actually pace the last race of the weekend. 3 laps in it went double yellow and I drove 3 laps pacing the field behind me. It's WAY more work than you might think - short periods of totally intense action surrounded by lots of time just sitting in the car at the ready. It's a cool place to watch the race from too! The only bad thing is that I am not sure how this will affect my attendance at the Shootout. I need to race both days to win the Region, and they have offered me the Pace Car 'job' if I want it which means pacing both days in August. <sigh>

Greg

'19 Genesis G70 3.3t AWD
'88 Chrysler Conquest TSI

  

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TTA Evo update [View all] , Moderator992gnt, Apr-21-09 09:14 AM
  RE: TTA Evo update, ModeratoreclipzGST, Jan-20-07 10:52 AM, #1
RE: TTA Evo update, Moderator992gnt, Jan-20-07 11:31 AM, #2
      RE: TTA Evo update, Moderatorcs82685, Jan-20-07 01:18 PM, #3
           RE: TTA Evo update, soulcontroller, Jan-20-07 04:43 PM, #4
                RE: TTA Evo update, TeamDR1665, Jan-22-07 01:32 PM, #5
                     RE: TTA Evo update, Moderator992gnt, Jan-28-07 07:11 AM, #6
                          RE: TTA Evo update, ModeratoreclipzGST, Jan-28-07 10:52 AM, #7
                               RE: TTA Evo update, Moderator992gnt, Jan-28-07 11:11 AM, #8
                                    RE: TTA Evo update, Moderator992gnt, Mar-19-07 04:11 PM, #9
                                         RE: TTA Evo update, ModeratoreclipzGST, Mar-19-07 07:52 PM, #10
                                         RE: TTA Evo update, TeamDR1665, Mar-20-07 08:08 AM, #11
                                              RE: TTA Evo update, Moderator992gnt, Mar-24-07 02:22 AM, #12
                                                   RE: TTA Evo update, ModeratoreclipzGST, Mar-24-07 06:06 AM, #13
                                                   RE: TTA Evo update, Moderator992gnt, Mar-24-07 12:17 PM, #14
                                                   RE: TTA Evo update, 97eclipse97, Mar-25-07 06:35 AM, #15
                                                        IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, Moderator992gnt, Apr-04-07 07:00 AM, #16
                                                             RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, ModeratoreclipzGST, Apr-06-07 07:26 PM, #17
                                                                  RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, soulcontroller, Apr-07-07 06:17 AM, #18
                                                                       RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, Moderator992gnt, Apr-11-07 05:47 PM, #19
                                                                            RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, TeamDR1665, Apr-12-07 08:41 AM, #20
                                                                                 RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, Moderator992gnt, Apr-13-07 03:08 AM, #21
                                                                                      RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, Moderator992gnt, Apr-19-07 06:01 AM, #22
                                                                                           RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, Moderatorxcasbonx, Apr-19-07 07:24 AM, #23
                                                                                                RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, kain_99gs, Apr-20-07 05:27 PM, #24
                                                                                                     RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, Moderator992gnt, Apr-21-07 04:11 PM, #25
                                                                                                          RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, ModeratoreclipzGST, Apr-21-07 05:35 PM, #26
                                                                                                               RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, TeamDR1665, Apr-22-07 09:04 AM, #27
                                                                                                                    RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, Moderator992gnt, Apr-22-07 04:48 PM, #28
                                                                                                                         RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, ModeratoreclipzGST, Apr-22-07 06:20 PM, #29
                                                                                                                              RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, Moderator992gnt, Apr-23-07 03:09 AM, #30
                                                                                                                                   RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, edxmon, Apr-26-07 01:56 PM, #31
                                                                                                                                        RE: IT'S RUNNING BITCHES!!!, Moderator992gnt, Apr-26-07 02:44 PM, #32
                                                                                                                                             Round 2, Putnam Park Indiana, Moderator992gnt, May-21-07 04:17 AM, #33
                                                                                                                                             RE: Round 2, Putnam Park Indiana, ModeratoreclipzGST, May-21-07 08:53 AM, #34
                                                                                                                                             RE: Round 2, Putnam Park Indiana, Moderator992gnt, May-21-07 04:51 PM, #35
                                                                                                                                             RE: Round 2, Putnam Park Indiana, TeamDR1665, May-21-07 05:28 PM, #36
                                                                                                                                             RE: Round 2, Putnam Park Indiana, ModeratoreclipzGST, May-21-07 07:57 PM, #37
                                                                                                                                             RE: Round 2, Putnam Park Indiana, TeamAvenger, May-22-07 07:29 AM, #38
                                                                                                                                             RE: Round 4, Mid Ohio, Moderator992gnt, Jul-16-07 04:43 PM #39
RE: TTA Evo update, Tguy, Apr-01-10 04:38 PM, #40
RE: TTA Evo update, Diceman19, Aug-17-10 08:32 AM, #41

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