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National Tour at Atwater, this weekend!
I'm contemplating going to the National Tour Solo2 event this weekend at Castle AFB in Atwater, CA. Anyone want to go?
You should expect some real stiff competition as well as a really fast and long course. Good practice for the Divisional and Nationals! Assuming my tires go on tomorrow, and there's nothing wrong with my steering rack, I'm gonna try to haul my ass out there, some company would be awesome, even if it just someone coming out with me to hang out or co-drive my car or something. Atwater is about 30 miles south of Modesto on HWY99. It also looks like Gary Szabo from Vegas Region will be out there running his WRX in STX! |
I might be interested in coming out and co-driving for one of the days... probably only one day though since I don't want to haul my car out there right now, and I've probably got plans here for the other day.
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I may see you guys there, I've been contemplating going, knowing I don't have a competitive car. But the story I've heard is that finding a room in Merced is going to be troublesome (but if you don't mind camping there may be that option there).
This event is really cool too, because there will be a number of other great drivers there as well as coverage that usually makes it into 1 or more auto racing publications. |
I'm going. Even thinking about taking Friday off to go test...
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BTW: there's only 3 seats left in for the event... And Debbie and Dean aren't any of 'em! And tomorrow, the entry fee goes up!
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I got my PayPal confirmation, but am not listed on the event...
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I'm in there now.....
Dean, maybe because somebody else already has #42? |
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Yeah, it looks like MyAutoEvents strikes again. :roll: That site has some issues. :x
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BTW: If anyone needs a room, Super8 in Merced has rooms available for that weekend. Call 209.384.1303 for reservations.
I've got a 2 bed room reserved for Saturday night. I'm planning on going Reno to Sac Friday night, crashing in Sac, then leaving from there to Atwater Saturday morning. |
My reg. came through.
If I can get the time off, I think I'll head down for the test runs on Fri. just to get the feel for the site, and National style courses. I don't know how it works, but I will try and scope out enough space for at least 4 cars. |
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I'll only be there for one day; probably Saturday. Does anyone know the run group order? What time do we need to be there for STX?
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I'm still not going 8)
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The National Tour event info on SCCA's website doesn't have any run/group information on it... these people need to get their shit together. The only thing it has is a schedule, which lists "Heat 1-5 competitions" on both days... that would seem to imply that all groups run both days? I think I'll call Mikey later on and see if he knows anything more...
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"Number 49 NAS comes to the line. That's Rowdy Burns, back in the saddle after recovering from a head injury on the NASCAR circuit. Let's see if he can get the top time of the day without the benefit of 'matched perfect and staggered special' tires!" |
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schedule is up!
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edit: http://www.scca.com/Event/Event.asp?...C747C0&Id=1516 |
It looks like STX runs 5th (last run group of the day), and works 2nd.
BTW: Debbie, are you coming down? |
Go to the Event Home and hit run/work order: http://www.scca.com/Event/Event.asp?...E70920&Id=1516
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Scott, Dean, Debbie, Austin and all who is going, MAKE US PROUD!
good luck! |
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I think we need a 'Team S.E.C.C.S. corral'. |
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There should be a number of Reno folks, and whoever shows up first should be grabbing space... It may be Pat Hosul...
I'll get the banner, but have my own shade so we will have two. |
Dean, about your sig -- good point. 3 runs, make'em count!
Tip I got when I went to Nationals, is to bring a pair of walking shoes that you can throw away after the weekend. The reason being, everyone who has gone has recommended walking each course at least 5 times. |
Any rule against videotaping the course while walking? Then you can play it back at speed...
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For everyone's information; I'm signed up and pre-paid for the weekend but I can't go to the second day, so anyone who might want to try out driving in one of the bigger events like this but doesn't want to enter their own car, could hitch a ride down with Scott and co-drive with him (assuming he approves you to drive his car :wink: ) on my entry for the second day. Matt's being a punk and won't go, :P so it's open to anyone.
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As for me, I have a lot to do, go to Home Depot, fix sprinklers, patch my ceiling, watch Nascar, etc...So it's not like I'm doing nothing., :lol: |
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You'd have to convince Laura, we have other plans. :lol:
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Well, she's coming on Saturday so you could try to convince her then - I'm not going to though, I know better. :lol:
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good stuff any pics?
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No Excuses, I could/should have driven better...
There were a number of shortcomings in how the event was run i could bitch about, but if I had followed through after each run to check my scores, and stayed by my car religiously, I probably could have trophied. I know better for next time, so I learned something at least. Most importantly, I was with a good group of people, and met some more, and overall had a good time. "I'll be back" |
I wanna see our run videos. 8)
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