yep. so sign up if you want to come. this event has no entry limit!

http://www.thscc.com

4/26/2006 3:14:53 PM

4 of us coming.

1 RX 7
1 98 Celica GT
1 Ford Focus

Hell even my gf is driving... my car though. God help you if you're doing the cones.

4/26/2006 3:47:36 PM

awesome. there will be 41!!! novices this time. thats an all time record

4/27/2006 8:09:11 AM

hahaha I bet I could get my gf to drive in this if she knew another girl was going to be there.

4/27/2006 9:23:06 AM

as of now there are 4 (maybe 5 depending on "Terry") girls signed up in Novice alone. probably 20 at the whole event

4/27/2006 9:31:12 AM

yay girls! woo!

4/27/2006 9:32:45 AM

^hrm why are YOU still novice?

4/27/2006 9:40:01 AM

^ she's only done half an event with our club and 1 with another. she's definitely still a novice.

[Edited on April 27, 2006 at 9:54 AM. Reason : ]

4/27/2006 9:54:00 AM

^ if your car hadn't broke maybe I could have gotten the whole event in!

I got a lot of seat time at the TnT. I'm sure that I'll move up after the next couple of events.

4/27/2006 10:01:03 AM

yeah i wasn't counting the TnT as an event.

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"I'm sure that I'll move up after the next couple of events."

look at that confidence!

4/27/2006 10:34:53 AM

Anybody got a fun car I can run?
Ahmet

4/27/2006 10:39:26 AM

well Im not claiming that I'll be competitive in LAD or SM or even NOV but I think after a couple more events I at least won't be a n00b anymore. I dunno we'll see.

4/27/2006 11:12:12 AM

let me take my go kart

4/27/2006 6:09:43 PM

does DS NOV get a different PAX multiplier than normal DS ?

4/28/2006 9:43:37 PM

no, but if you are in NOV, then your PAX time will be used to rank you among the novices. If you ran open DS, your raw time would be used to rank you among the other DS drivers and the PAX time wouldn't really be used for anything (except to compare yourself to everyone else at the event who isn't in your class).

[Edited on April 29, 2006 at 11:27 PM. Reason : ]

4/29/2006 11:26:31 PM

since lots of state ppl went,
post your times
57.9s clean (DS, 3rd run)

4/30/2006 8:03:23 PM

52.3 FTL! bah. lost by a tenth.

STU (white e36 M3)

4/30/2006 8:47:52 PM

No laughing...

68.3 with 3 cones on the slalom.

Started the day with Matt as an instructor and did a 78... then did 73 ... hitting 6 cones. I was afraid of hurting my car.

My girlfriend comes up and does a friggin 69 TWICE... once getting 1 cone. We're right at the announcer booth and my friend goes "dude did your girlfriend just beat your time in your own car"... and take a guess what the announcer did next.

My last two runs were my better. I got a 71 with 1 cone and a 68 with 3 cones. I just wasn't pushing my car hard enough.

So sadly enough... my girlfriend beat me in my own car with a 69.18. There's no salvaging the pride here.

4/30/2006 9:12:57 PM

hah awesome.

BUT WAS IT FUN?

also, did you get a chance to ride along w/ anyone faster? thats an eye opening experience

4/30/2006 9:17:55 PM

nah every chance I had to ride with someone faster one of my group was there first. No biggie. I'll ride with someone next time we come.

It was a blast. I'm so used to driving in smaller cars that I only hit the cones on the right side of the car because I misjudged distance.

4/30/2006 10:05:49 PM

61.7 clean

I finally got clean the last run of the day!

5/1/2006 8:08:39 AM

^^ if/when you come next time i can mentor you and let you ride w/ me. i think seeing it done is ten times more helpful than you driving and having the more experienced guy tell you how its done. once in awhile i slack off and need to ride w/ someone really fast to get reminded again what fast/aggressive is. hah its suuuuuuuper helpful. i garuntee its worth 3 seconds off your time

as far as running clean, there are two opposing schools of thought. one says make every run count and if you cone away every run, then oh well at least you gave it your all and didnt waste any shots on sissy runs. the other says take the first run a little easy and be SURE to get a clean smooth run under your belt. w/that as a foundation your confidence is up and you can push harder and harder the next times and hopefuly maintain the cleanliness. its like practicing something in slow motion and then working up to speed. the con to this though is that if you take your sweet time getting up to speed, the day will be over before you get a fast/competitive run in.

i like the latter school of thought. i just feel much better knowing i have a solid clean run in and i know the course/didnt dnf, etc. but the con did sort of show up w/ my yesterday, i didnt hit a cone all day! so i guess i wasnt trying hard enough . maybe if i was more aggressive from the get go i coulda went faster in the end. oh yeh but my point is that i think novices also do well w/ this approach because it a) relieves pressure from the first run (just take it easy), and then when that goes well it b) gives the confidence to push harder on the next runs

5/1/2006 8:38:16 AM

51.8 clean, third run

5/1/2006 9:18:37 AM

i think 54.6 was my fastest clean time. i got a 53.8 on my last run, but hit a couple cones >.<

the kuhmo MX's were a shit ton better than the Michelin Pilot Sports i had on the front before.

(SM Supra)

5/1/2006 9:30:01 AM

i need to burn through my RE92s faster so i can put some falken's on :{

5/1/2006 9:42:30 AM

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"51.8 clean, third run"

real nice! who are you and what car were you driving? class?

5/1/2006 9:48:31 AM

clay rouse, csp 4 (silver miata)

5/1/2006 9:50:34 AM

ahh one of the guys kicking Ryan's butt eh?

5/1/2006 10:05:36 AM

I think he was just having an off day.

5/1/2006 10:39:07 AM

he was running the same times but coning out. I was running a bit slower in the morning and coning. That run just came together for me.

5/1/2006 10:44:58 AM

Thanks Danny, I probably will. I was at the end line when you crossed with that time. Damn you were hauling ass.

5/1/2006 11:37:01 AM

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"My girlfriend comes up and does a friggin 69 TWICE... once getting 1 cone. We're right at the announcer booth and my friend goes "dude did your girlfriend just beat your time in your own car"... and take a guess what the announcer did next."

sorry, we just have to take advantage of situational humor like that!

but its all in good fun!

i think dan's gf beat him at rallyX once

5/1/2006 8:50:48 PM

Hehe the worst so far is that I get a call from my Dad in Kenya.... "Hey man, heard your girlfriend whupped your ass at the autocross".

... I hate technology sometimes.

5/1/2006 11:00:05 PM

^bahah

results are up! http://www.thscc.com/autocross/events/index.html

#7 PAX and #10 RAW out of 150+ (it stops counting at 150)

5/1/2006 11:09:52 PM

My Girlfriend
29 HS 133 Hannah Lewis 1998 Toyota Celica 69.791 69.447+1 68.201 68.358 53.196 0.295

Roommate
31 HS 666 Christopher Pendergraft 2001 Ford focus 73.909+1 73.733+DNF 68.186+DNF 67.021+1

Friend and Dad
33 ESP 46 Jim Henry 1985 mazda rx7 69.542 66.941 72.074+DNF 65.380 54.134 0.070
34 ESP 146 David Henry 1984 Mazda Rx7 62.099+2 64.214+3 61.280+3 59.736+4 54.730 0.596

My Jenkie ass
36 HS 33 Chad Stinner 1998 Toyota Celica GT 78.831 73.007+6 71.370+1 68.674+3 57.228 0.653

5/2/2006 12:01:55 AM

198(5) rx7... not 1984 I just cant type.

My friggin dad beat me this time. Oh well, his turn to win I suppose. I would have done a lot better if those cones would stop jumpin in front of me!

5/3/2006 10:57:20 AM