ActiveAero
09-23-2002, 01:18 AM
Had a blast today at auto-x. In was pouring rain for a few hours before the event and stopped about halfway through. Stayed nice and cloudy all day as well. The course was soaked with a few runoffs and alot of standing water. This was my first event in the rain and I was up against the other WRX's in my class. We got a total of six runs.
1st: DNF missed gate.
2nd. Spun it around and the timing lights and went around them. DNF
3rd. Spun it right then back left. 58 second run ( I think)
4th. Spun the freak again.
5th. Slowed down and took it easy. High 54 second run. Put me behind in my class by more than a second.
6th. Pulled it all togther and whipped out a 53.3 to give me second place in STX. Lost to Micheal Fiyak a pretty experienced driver in a WRX who also had coilovers. He ran a 52.5 which ended up being fastest time of the day.
Its not confirmed yet but I think I was second fastest of the day possibly third.
I loved running the car in the rain. I hate to say it, but us ITR's don't have that big of a disadvantage. I was extremly surprised at the wet weather handling. I only had two clean runs and I knew of a bunch of spots I could have cleaned up. The WRX's really only had an advantage at these really slow 1st gear tight sweepers at the both ends of the course. One was really off camber going up hill so I really had to wait to get on the gas.
Kelli had a blast, well at least while she was riding. I let her tag along on three of my runs. Sam (240SX Turbo/Volvo) also drove my car and busted out an amazing 52 second run but picked up a few cones along the way. My car definitly had fastest time of the day in it if I could have just put everything together on a clean run.
1st: DNF missed gate.
2nd. Spun it around and the timing lights and went around them. DNF
3rd. Spun it right then back left. 58 second run ( I think)
4th. Spun the freak again.
5th. Slowed down and took it easy. High 54 second run. Put me behind in my class by more than a second.
6th. Pulled it all togther and whipped out a 53.3 to give me second place in STX. Lost to Micheal Fiyak a pretty experienced driver in a WRX who also had coilovers. He ran a 52.5 which ended up being fastest time of the day.
Its not confirmed yet but I think I was second fastest of the day possibly third.
I loved running the car in the rain. I hate to say it, but us ITR's don't have that big of a disadvantage. I was extremly surprised at the wet weather handling. I only had two clean runs and I knew of a bunch of spots I could have cleaned up. The WRX's really only had an advantage at these really slow 1st gear tight sweepers at the both ends of the course. One was really off camber going up hill so I really had to wait to get on the gas.
Kelli had a blast, well at least while she was riding. I let her tag along on three of my runs. Sam (240SX Turbo/Volvo) also drove my car and busted out an amazing 52 second run but picked up a few cones along the way. My car definitly had fastest time of the day in it if I could have just put everything together on a clean run.