time for another update:
2 weeks seemed like a month of not being able to autox. It felt great to get back behind the wheel. I was at fedex field again with wdcr-scca.
The course was a challenging one with lots of difficult offset turns, 180 degree sweepers and quite a few slaloms. Walking the course I thought it would be pretty fast but driving it was a completely different story. It had plenty of wierd braking points where if you got on the binders too late you blew the next 3 corners. You could link quite a few sections together. I was a little too fast in sections and it screwed some of my slalom entrances up at first. Last run I overdrove and slid the car way too much, I should have been in the 62s. Overall I was happy with how the day went, I left with a smile on my face knowing I didn't leave too much on the parking lot.
I ended up 7th out of 14 in street mod with a best time of 63.25 which was only a tenth out of 6th and less than 2 tenths out of 5th. We were pretty tight from 5-8th. Fastest time in class was stupid brian karwan with his stupid fast k20 civic with a 58.20. I was pushing to beat a few friends in sts and I beat the lead sts civic coupe by a hundredth of a second haha take that aj. The overall and pax overall results aren't ready yet but i'll put those results up whenever josh gets them up on the site.
On an even better note, Ian baker(3rd place in sts2 at the 07 nationals) broke out the scales and started weighing cars. His fully prepped 89 crx si sts2 car weighed in at 1975 lbs, a fully prepped 89 crx hf? sts2 weighed in at 1895 lbs, a d stock e36 325is weighed 3045 lbs, a sts2 88 mr2 was 2375 lbs, late 90s viper 3400 something I didn't actually see the weight just heard it through the grapevine.
last but not least my 99 L street mod terror was 2035 lbs with a little under a half tank of gas, rest of the car was in autox trim. This is very promising for next year when I run in fsp. With a 1/4 tank of gas i'd be close to 2000 lbs even. I can still drop some weight in the car and hopfully get somewhere down around 1950 lbs when i'm done. God I hope I can get everything done this winter. If anyone wants to contribute to ANDY'S FSP ACCENT FUND you can send some money to my paypal anytime
. In the mean time I should start cutting weight myself because once my fat ass is in the car I lose some of my lightweight advantage.
Next week i'm racing at fedex again with autocrossers incorporated. Should be fun, its my first time racing with this organization but I already know plenty of the people. I will update again next week. later
