·clyde·
07-28-2003, 07:13 AM
I went to the Mazda Rev It Up event in DC on Saturday. I saw a few fest members there. Had an interesting time. Of the skills practice things, I only did the slalom and I only did it once. I coned the last cone of the second slalom set. Steering response and turn in of the 6 were more responsive and crisp than I expected.
WHile watching the main course with bren (and Mrs. bren), we spotted Nick325xit_5sp climbing out a car and talked with him for a little bit. He told us a bit about the course, and I took some of what he said a little too literally...like "You don't have to brake for the first left."
Start, immediate shallow right follwed by a reasonably sharp left. I'm thinking, "Need to brake a bit...but Nick said no. Okay, I'll listen to him." Hit 6 cones on the outside as I nearly push off course. "Thanks, Nick!" :banghead: ;) Get a little flustered but go about attacking the rest of the course. Cone again (just one this time) about halfway through the course and come through the second half with good speed and I nail the last hairpin pretty well. Raw time was a little over 30 seconds (index time was 28.4x at that point IIRC). I'm thinking, not too bad.
Second run was a little over an hour later. Right behind me in line were some of the local SCCA autox hotshoes. We see the name of another hotshoe on the board with a DNF. A couple minutes later he comes over and tells us that his car was screwed up. He said that he shifted to second, but that it didn't shift somehow that caused him to go off course a bit. That's kind of :confused: but this guy knows his ****, and because he said it, I'm willing to take his word that there was something to it. While finishing out his run, he said that it shifted from 1 directly to 3 on it's own. (Remember, that these are autos with a steptronic type feature.) So, his advice was to stay away form the #8 car. Guess what car I got? :rolleyes: They don't let you pick cars...you get what you get.
So, I'm in the car up at the line waiting for the signal to go. I'm worried about the tranny. I'm worried about that first left that I screwed up before. I've been in the sun for hours and have not had enough water (at $3/12oz bottle :irate:...Nick, I forgot to pay you back yesterday). And I've got some of the fastest local guys right behind me. I decide that the only important thing is not to embarass myself. I short shifted to 2, hoping that might keep the tranny from going bonkers (and it shifted immediately), went through the left without incident and did the rest of the course well enough. I made three significant errors on course that cost me time, but I came in with a 30.4xx and the index time had changed to a 28.8xx. Good for 591 points and second poisiton on the Club leaderboard at the time.
Here's where I stand after completion of the DC event:
National Rank 542 of 19,537
National Class Rank 88 of 2,083 (Club)
Location Rank 34 of 1,971
Location Class Rank 6 of 238 (Club)
The only other person that I've seen post a score was beewang. Hercules posted enough info to find his scores as well. Anyone else want to contribute their scores?
WHile watching the main course with bren (and Mrs. bren), we spotted Nick325xit_5sp climbing out a car and talked with him for a little bit. He told us a bit about the course, and I took some of what he said a little too literally...like "You don't have to brake for the first left."
Start, immediate shallow right follwed by a reasonably sharp left. I'm thinking, "Need to brake a bit...but Nick said no. Okay, I'll listen to him." Hit 6 cones on the outside as I nearly push off course. "Thanks, Nick!" :banghead: ;) Get a little flustered but go about attacking the rest of the course. Cone again (just one this time) about halfway through the course and come through the second half with good speed and I nail the last hairpin pretty well. Raw time was a little over 30 seconds (index time was 28.4x at that point IIRC). I'm thinking, not too bad.
Second run was a little over an hour later. Right behind me in line were some of the local SCCA autox hotshoes. We see the name of another hotshoe on the board with a DNF. A couple minutes later he comes over and tells us that his car was screwed up. He said that he shifted to second, but that it didn't shift somehow that caused him to go off course a bit. That's kind of :confused: but this guy knows his ****, and because he said it, I'm willing to take his word that there was something to it. While finishing out his run, he said that it shifted from 1 directly to 3 on it's own. (Remember, that these are autos with a steptronic type feature.) So, his advice was to stay away form the #8 car. Guess what car I got? :rolleyes: They don't let you pick cars...you get what you get.
So, I'm in the car up at the line waiting for the signal to go. I'm worried about the tranny. I'm worried about that first left that I screwed up before. I've been in the sun for hours and have not had enough water (at $3/12oz bottle :irate:...Nick, I forgot to pay you back yesterday). And I've got some of the fastest local guys right behind me. I decide that the only important thing is not to embarass myself. I short shifted to 2, hoping that might keep the tranny from going bonkers (and it shifted immediately), went through the left without incident and did the rest of the course well enough. I made three significant errors on course that cost me time, but I came in with a 30.4xx and the index time had changed to a 28.8xx. Good for 591 points and second poisiton on the Club leaderboard at the time.
Here's where I stand after completion of the DC event:
National Rank 542 of 19,537
National Class Rank 88 of 2,083 (Club)
Location Rank 34 of 1,971
Location Class Rank 6 of 238 (Club)
The only other person that I've seen post a score was beewang. Hercules posted enough info to find his scores as well. Anyone else want to contribute their scores?
