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Pro Solo Finale and Solo Nationals news
So aparently the pro was quite a show. The interesting Subaru news is in A Stock...
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Damn, I wonder is the Sti will get moved to Super Stock now :lol:
Anyway, that's some damn good driving to put 2+ seconds up on 2nd place. wow. |
Our "local" Mark Sipe unfortunately did not fare well in his STU RX-8, fighting cones, and spins, and dnfs aparently most of teh two days... STIs and Evos and a stray BMW ruled the class.
Debbie only fared a little better in L2. I wonder if the car had problems. Well, hopefully they do better at the Solo early in the week. |
I'm not surprised that the STI didn't need shocks. Since lowering the car really only results in poor dynamic camber, and since you can't go up on the spring rates, I don't see any real advantage in "upgrading" the already terrific stock struts.
Massive tires and a real stiff front sway to prevent camber loss in cornering and a wicked alignment is pretty much doing everything that you can to that car. The 3mm front spacers is interesting though... I wonder how much camber they were able to get out of the front alignment... if it was enough to need more backspacing, I'd be surprised! |
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At the Wendover Pro I heard several comments that were skeptical of how "Stock" that car really is, boost-wise. It did seem to pull pretty hard compared to the '06 STI in the same class but the '06 still had paper tags and may not have been broken-in fully.
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I guess I am going to have to look into this whole LFB thingy. And some 275 hoosiers!! Got the swaybar already.
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It looks like Debbie is in 2nd place after the the first day and Mark had cone issues on all of his East side runs:
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T 2 93 Debbie Kerswill 2005 Mazda RX-8 Wht Yokohama 58.805(1) 56.969 55.876 55.876 |
Good for Debbie, but she is 1.5 seconds out of first. that is going to be hard to make up...
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Debbie finished 3rd:
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T 1 73 Amy Fair 1997 BMW M3 Slv Yokohama 55.937 54.966 54.320 108.154 |
Nice job Deb!
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Quick report from Topeka before we hit the road for home today. (Thanks for watching, guys.)
Besides being the most slippery asphalt I have ever run on (and I share that sentiment with what might be 90% of the other competitors), the car had handling issues the entire time. I was first one out on Friday morning at the ProSolo, and the back end of the car would not stay under me. There wasn't a turn I could take at speed or with any power so I had to slow up at every transition. Mark had many spins. He tried everything to get the rear end to stay in place - we went through multiple spring changes, rear bar changes, (even disconnecting the rear bar for one set of ProSolo runs), lowered tire pressures, more rear toe-in; Koni was onsite, and along the way all 4 shocks got revalved. The handling got a little better by Tuesday afternoon when I ran in nationals, but it still wasn't good enough to be able to pitch the car into a turn. On my first run on Wednesday, I took a spin through a wall of cones which was next to the dividing line to the other course. I got rattled, and then I couldn't get my head back into the game to be able to put down a really fast run on the west course. - - - - - Interesting story to watch will be the Thu/Fri CP competitors. We heard a bunch of them were running around over the last 2 days looking for Hoosiers to run (instead of their slicks). Mark was working the course on Sunday in the test & tune event, and watched the CP cars sliding all over the place. I hope for them, they can find more grip. Can't wait to hear how this year's results are going to factor in with 2007 pax (or not). |
Sucks about the traction issues... still looks like you did well tho! Good job!
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The trophy is even more impressive considering the issues with the car Deb. Can't wait to see what happens next year when it's sorted out!
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Random picture taken by Peaty, proprietor of Scoobymods.com:
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