Solo Sprint @ Mission, Oct 9th

[Marke]

This the list of competition for that date so far.

4 Racine, Albert / 1985 Ford Mustang
5 Olmstead, Darwin / 1999 Chevrolet Corvette FRC
7 Saville Peck, David / 2002 Caterham Super 7
8 Powell-Williams, Heather / 1997 Acura Integra Type R
10 Neveaux, David / 1937 Chevrolet Legends
12 Ruppe, Herb / 1983 Honda Prelude
13 Powell-Williams, Jared / 1997 Acura Integra
26 Erickson, Marke / 1989 Nissan Skyline GTR Jet Stream Custom Automotive
31 Sandham, Larry / Mini Vauxhall
44 Dickenson, Art / 1983 Jaguar XJS GT
73 Elsinga, Mike / 1973 Porsche 914
78 Carlyle, Campbell / 1989 Pontiac Trans Am
81 Michalak, Stan / 1972 Datsun 240Z
82 Vandekerkhove, Josh / Volkswagen Rabbit
88 Page, Robin / 2003 Subaru WRX
120 Buxton, Troy / Volkswagen SCIROCCO
125 Hulan, Scott / 1998 Chevrolet Camaro Z28
130 Sandhu, Johnny / 1980 Pontiac Trans Am

Guess which are the three fastest cars. Hint, I am not one of them.

PS: Aaron, why aren't you on here?

[Daryl @ RightDrive]

Corvette, Caterham and WRX are fastest?
And WOW: 1937 Chevrolet Legends

Sounds like a great event, lots are variety of cars, and interesting competitors!
Have a blast and stay safe!

[Marke]

You are right about the Caterham, he will most likely take FTD. He has a turbocharged Hayabusa and some serious down force. Your other guesses are way off.

Aaron is not allowed to play this game.

[WowWee]

1997 Acura Integra Type R
Volkswagen Rabbit

????

[Marke]

The Rabbit it is, but this is no ordinary Rabbit. It is stripped down and has a roll cage, weighing in at 2000lbs. Huge fender flares hold in 10" wide race slicks and to top it off it has an Audi TT awd with a 2L turbo churning out just under 400whp.

This Rabbit has insane acceleration!!!

As for the Acura, Heather is fast for her class, but a long way from pack leading times.

[Marke]

First off, HUGE thanks to John at Rocky Mountain Imports for coming thru at the eleventh hour to make it possible for me to participate in this event. You are the man, John!

The field for this event was not as large as was on the entry list. Potential rain scared off less than half.

First run group of the day was practice and the track was wet. I left my street tires on and my car handled like sh!t on the slippery track. Understeer understeer understeer!!. My street tires are crappy BFG KDW's on OE rims. My times were crap.

Second Session we had dry track, so on went the Volks with Z214's. Car handled great, was pulling well and I was finding the line.
Right at the end, rain began to fall. I finished early.

My time was not what I expected. Slow by about 3 second. Couldn't figure out what was up. Checked my boost controller and it was set to low. So I was making 14psi instead of 18psi. DOH!!

Rest the day was canceled due to rain combined with a Formula Vee dumping oil all over the track.

Ended up coming in First in my class and 8th overall out of 15 entries. Disappointed in my results but very happy just to be there.

[Transparent Skyline]

Hey Marke what are your lap times like around mission any ways?

[Marke]

For this event I was 1:21 in the dry. Last event I was 1:19. With some minor tweaking and a bit more seat time at Mission, 1:17 should be very do-able.

I have to add that my decision to go to R-comps for the second session was last minute and I didn't have time to put my Hawk Blue pads on, so I was conservative in the braking zones once again. I would have put them on for the 3rd session had it stayed dry.

I don't even want to say what my times in the wet were, although I was being held up by a Mustang that wouldn't wave me by in the passing zones for most of that session. Grrrr!! He was even ignoring the blue flags.

[bobbo]

Legends cars are always quick.

[GTR-Dad]

And WOW: 1937 Chevrolet Legends

There's a spec class of scale cars with Yamaha FJ1100 (I think) engines. They're about as 1937 as Nascar is Toyota, but even with that backdrop, Wow!

Dan

[Marke]

There were two legends out. One was faster than me by less than half a second and I was faster than the other by about 1 second. They were tail out around most corners. I easily pulled them on the straights but they could brake much deeper than me.

The third fast car I was referring to was the Vauxhall Mini. He was the only one of the fast three to show up and because of a poor tire choice he came in third.