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i won't be able to race, but my kid and i might be going through hawthorne in time to help set up. we're going to vegas for the weekend.
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is early registration going to be at the El Capitan?
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guess i should call up the holiday lodge then
so btw, the postings on IWSTI is correct, the 2005 STI comes stock with postive front camber, and -1.5 Rear . The guys at Lilly's told me the front was set to +.25 :huh: all they could get out of her was -0.6 (has to be a lot better then running around with positive up front though) they took longer then they said but oh wells. |
Alex, I've got floor space available if you want to save a buck or two.
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oh only $2 for floor space ? well Crapples i'de better hop on that :P lol
i'm hoping if its floor only like $30 ish , or if they can roll in a cot then 1/2 :) (call me selfish but i'm not gonna pay half price and sleep on the floor 2 nights in a row while someone else pays the same and gets a bed) lol |
Hope you guys kick some Vegas ass this weekend.
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Hell Yeah :) guess i should look up directions at some point before i leave huh? maybe i should even print numbers now just in case i'm suppost to have those.. hmff
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my cell num is getting there :)
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Hope one or two of you will post how Saturday went. I'm sitting up here in Truckee watching the snow fall and should be down with you all. Thanks for any updated, this is killing me.
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That was an event for the ages...wow what a battle Scott and I had...Everyone drove really well, I had a great time this weekend.
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More pictures, more pictures, more pictures..... How was the course? Fast or tight or both?
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Show what the course was like. Map it out. What were the times like?
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There were some left turns, some right turns. A few slaloms, etc...
It may sound wierd, but it was high speed, but tight as well. It was the fastest (mph wise) I've ever been at a solo event, but I was still significantly off the pace and it wasn't due to an HP deficit. |
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I'll agree with Matt, it was an excellent event competition-wise. Though most the competition was amongst us Reno folk, and not so much with Vegas... I think it has a lot to do with our normal events being of a higher average speed than Vegas' normal events. Our drivers simply have more experience/exposure to the higher speed type events.
Which brings me to the shitty part of the weekend. For the second time in 3 years, a driver lost control of their vehicle and slid off course into a course worker. Chalk it up to a "freak" incident, or to driver inexperience (the driver was a young kid from Vegas driving a WRX), but once again there was an ambulance needed at a Solo event... IMO, Hawthorne should be removed from the schedule. If we wish to continue the N/S Challenge we either need a new location that isn't runway based, or we need to split locations... one year hold it at Stead, the next at Vegas' "home" location. As far as the guy hit, I don't specifically remember meeting him, but he's from Reno, name's Ed, drives a white supercharged Miata. He got hit be the sliding car's left rear door in his back, which whipped his head into the C-pilar above the door. The window was smashed out, the door had a big dimple in it, and the C-pillar was banged up. Ed suffered a deep gash to his head, a concussion, and several chipped vertebrae. He's going to be laid up for a while healing, but he should make a full recovery. The real shitty part is that he starts a new job on Tuesday, which means he currently has no health insurance. I'm not sure what a care-flight from Hawthorne to Washoe Med, CT scans, pain meds, etc, cost but I can guarentee this poor kid will be paying for it for a long while. :( |
Ed made it out to the after party at Bully's after the first event. I talked with him awhile about just moving here. I think he has a wife also.
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The site is actually plenty large enough to not use the taxiways at all, and still make a 40+ second course. My guess is that National will not approve another course that uses the taxiways.
The problem with them is they are narrow and have a significant crown. Due to the narrow width, there is little to do but slalom to reduce speeds, and slaloms are extrmely upsetting to cars. When combined with the off-camberness of the crown they can cause small mistakes to turn into high speed course exits in fairly random directions as we have seen. IMHO the only way to continue to use that site safely is to stop using the taxiways, which is not likely to go over well with the general membership of the two regions. You could continue to push wokkers further off the side, but that dosn't fix the problem, and the next incident may well be a roll over that could involve the loss of limbs due to open windows or worse... |
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