Dog Daze of Summer RallyCross - NATIONAL CHALLENGE event (Saturday Aug 7)

...and I'm sorry for stomping you by 15 seconds! lulz...

Great day everyone! Subaru contingency really paid off today!!!!

 

I had great fun, can we run at this site more often?

 

oic! well, just in case i meant

great course! why don't we do more there. nice to do fun runs and hang afterwords. the hummus was pretty good mark

 

You did.

 

Wow, then I really must have fubared some runs, I had two 38's and two 39's and a few 40.xx, so I must have netted some high cone counts or something. Have the times been posted anywhere?

 

I think 35.xx-36.xx were the fast side of things for consistent runs. I'm not sure though. Later in the day the timer was angled better for the finish line so starting grid had a harder time seeing what people were getting. I just watch Mark's times and pretty much say that's the fast side. I want to say he was in the 35-36 range consistently later in the day, but I could almost never read the time board later in the day. For all I know there might have been some 33.xx-34.xx times. It'll be interesting to see what people were getting.

 

on the 5th runset the times for the m4 and sa cars were quite a bit faster than they had been all day. you guys got some awesome course conditions for that set. i was working the grid for your group and dont remember anyone below 34. i think mark got a 34 but he had a cone.

 

i always forget to look for the timer. my goal at the finish is slow the f*** down, get the door open, and get around the cones. i kinda wish it was in a better spot of the drives to see at the finish. like right in front of ya

 

shhh don't say that! I finally broke into the 30s on my last run haha. It was a high 39 but still...goal accomplished Heck, for my first rallycross ever, my goal was not to finish dead last and make it home in one piece afterwords.

ps will there be any way to know how many cones you hit? Like when they post the times online, will they give a cone count as well?

 

No, when the times are posted they will only outline your times, not cone count.
Maybe I can get that info for ya though...

http://www.scca-lol.org/rally/rallyx/results.php


I think I hit a few cones before lunch, but think the afternoon was pretty clean. I was averaging 37s to low 39's

 

Typically I don't include cone counts on the final results as it just makes fitting everything onto a nice page harder.

I have the results ready to post, but I'm waiting for confirmation that what I've put together is correct, since this is what the people paying out the contingencies will be looking at.

 

cool, yea it'd be sweet to know if I took out any cones because I really don't recall any. But then again, it's probably tough to really know unless it was a big obvious mistake. idk if not hitting any cones is necissarily a good thing either I'll have to drive a little harder next time yea I said it...next time haha you guys have got me hooked

 

you were driving very well. getting in the 30s regardless of conditions is a solid drive on that course. the key to this course was knowing when to slow down so you could go fast later.

the hardest part was the pin turn after the slalom and the turn just before the gate to the north side of the track.

 

Thanks, I appreciate it. I agree that the pin turn was probably one of the harder parts of the course, but it wouldn't have been as fun without it. The trickiest part for me was getting myself set up and turning away from the turn before cranking it back around to whip the back end out a little more. All those sti guys can just touch the gas a little more it seemed haha. And right before you go through the fence was tricky to keep your speed through as well.

p.s. I've got my friend editing some of the video that I shot, so I'll probably start a thread when he cracks into it a little more. I know I've got a lot of footage of everybody which is cool.

 

I can haz footage of my second to last pin turn?! I hope its on film!

 

I can assure you that I've got multiple shots of everybody on the first pin turn as well as the last.

 

get them posted...we're dying here!!! :biggrin:

 

I wanna see video or pics of the 360's that we (me in the MR2 and then the guy that was driving the white STi) did during the fun runs! I would also like to see how I looked on course since it felt really good almost all day.

 

I have 1 vid on my phone of one of Mark's runs with me standing at the pin turn. I'll upload that later. I also have all my runs in-car. I'll have stuff up on YouTube in the next couple days.

 

..:lollol:.....and you didn't even stick around for the awards...


So next time you'll think twice before flapping your gums? :laugh:


sry bri- you had this one coming after all that smack talk. Maybe you want to try again in September? I tell ya what....I'll even let you have a 100+whp advantage!!! (oh wait, that didn't help you this past weekend, did it? )

 

Next event is September 19th!!!! Mark your calendars!!!!!

 

I know my last two fun runs were videoed. Hopeing that ends up getting posted soon. I'm anxious to see how it looks on a bigger screen.

Time to find some wheels and tires before sept 19th.

 

Results?

 

Sorry guys. No vids of the fun runs. I was helpin clean stuff up at that time.

 

Results: http://www.scca-lol.org/rally/rallyx/results.php

 

Helloooo. Oh my...

 

thanks for posting mark (vector)!!!

 

So um would it be a lot of work to figure out if I hit any cones? I'm just curious I guess.

 

I'll try to wrangle up that file and give you the results tomorrow

 

cool man, whenever you get around to it. No hurry

 

which car were you in?

 

you had a pretty good day indeed. nice drive.

 

I was in car 94. The newer generation hatch

 

Here's your scores.....you did not hit a cone all day!
45.27
42.226
42.747
41.329
40.235
40.842
41.749
40.823
41.744
39.872

 

Thanks, I saw my times online, but that's kinda cool that I didn't hit any cones lol. I'll have to go a little harder next time I guess

speaking of next time, I see that the next rallycross is on a Sunday. Boo that. I'll have to wait andsee if I'll be able to make it depending on classes n stuff. Driving from Fargo and back in one day blows. Just as Greg haha he did it last weekend

 

Excellent event and just checked the result.

Brian, Nice driving for your first event. I hit 3 cones on my last run (forgot the condition of the muddy bridge on the last corner) and lost my 3rd place in SA to you. However, great fun. Anna and I had a blast. I got to meet a few of you guys in person finally.

I hope that we'll do more rallycross at Corcorin lions park. This venue is awesome.

 

So I am the once that is editing the videos that Brian took and currently the first part (the file is too big to be one part) is currently rendering and should be done within a few hours, as soon as it is done I will upload it to megaupload and put the link up here and start on the second part
My apologies for it taking so long, it has been tough to find time while trying to get ready to move

Part one is finished and uploaded:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WMT40MSD

Hopefully part 2 will be done and uploaded by tomorrow

 

if i got you some blank DVDs would you be able to burn a physical copy?

 

Kevin lives in Fargo too, so when he gets back in town I'm sure he could get ya a dvd He accidentally left the camera in HD quality, so that's what you'll get

 

Well I dont live there quite yet, I will on monday though and I will for sure be able to get some physical DVDs done if you want, and like Brian said, I accidently left my camcorder in XP HD, which is the highest quality 1080p that it has

 

Here is the 2nd half of the video, sorry it took so long, moving 250 miles away takes more time than I thought it would

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2M1MBVTZ

enjoy :biggrin: