Time trials went well, despite the poor scheduling.
*Huge* thanks to Robbie (wrxkidid) for coming out. Without him, there would have been no race. Scheduling pretty much prevented me from working timing and scoring, and Robbie took care of it on his own as a volunteer, with virtually zero help or instruction. Thanks a ton man!
As far as the trials event: We ran a practice session, a qually session, and two races. I ran street tires for practice just to see how things felt, then switched to the Pilot Sport Cups for the qual and race session. I sat out race two since the car was running a bit hot after race one, and stood on my race 1 time.
We race configuration H, which is good for me since it's got less straights than some of the other configurations, and the Vette's eat me up on the straights. I ended up getting Art Majors by a few seconds. I ended up with a 1:52.230 to Art's 1:55.010. Going into the 2nd race, I had the fastest lap time (including laps faster than the two formula cars that were on the grid
). I ended up after race two in third overall (the formula cars finally ran some 1:50's in race 2). My nifty new GPS telemetry gizmo reported a theoretical fast lap of a 1:50.954, which is in the neighborhood of the overall fastest lap of 1:50.361 set by the Formula Atlantic car. So I'm pretty stoked.
I've got some issues with the scheduling of course... us trials guys got very little track time when compared to the other groups, and our runs were all in the afternoon heat -- not that it was all that hot -- but if we do the same schedule this summer, I'm going to end up having to run a total of like 6 laps for the whole day due to heat. Nothing like paying $125 for an autocross number of laps.
Anyway, all in all it was a good event, since I was able to stay ahead of Art's vette. I tell you, if he (and Luke for that matter) ditch the RA-1's for some stickier tires, I'm in trouble. I'm gonna need to get that 100 octane map before the next event!
And just for fun, here's some cool stats from the telemetry from my fast lap:
Max Speed: 128.99 mph (Just one .01 seconds away!!
)
Max RPM: 6838 (look Mike, I'm being nice to your motor!)
Max Lateral Gs: 1.89 (most corners show sustained 1.2 G turns
)
Max Brake Gs: 1.31
I'm attaching the G-G Plot. I'm pretty sloppy in there. A great driver will minimize the data points in the middle of the diamond. However, I seem to be doing a decent job with my cornering.
Also attached is my lap segment screen cap.