WCC Autocross Results Options

[Demick]

Congratulations to everyone who ran the 914 WCC Autocross. Here are the results:

Top time of Day: Bill Pickering 51.205 seconds

Stock Class:
1st place: Darren Doud 58.058 seconds
2nd place: Nathan Breitling 59.843 seconds
3rd place: Benjamin Guyot 59.849 seconds

Improved Class:
1st place: Demick Boyden 53.445 seconds
2nd place: Rob Ways 54.911 seconds
3rd place: Rich Bontempi 55.061 seconds

Race Class:
1st place: Bill Pickering 51.205 seconds
2nd place: John Peterson 57.072 seconds
3rd place: Brad Roberts 57.830 seconds

Our Most improved award winner was Andrew Lauder with an improvement of 40.398 seconds from his first run to his best run.

Our Cone King award was a tie between Keith Sammons and Birgit Heniz. They each took out 6 cones over the course of the day (much less than I expected for the Cone King). The tie breaker for the award was the person who hit the most cones in a single run - and that was Keith Sammons with 4 cones in a single run. Sorry Birgit - you were just too consistent with your cone killing abilities.

Congratulations to all of the winners. I'll try and publish the full results below. Hopefully it will work.

Demick

[Demick]

There have been some questions about how we broke the cars up into classes. Below are the rules that we used to divide up the Stock, Improved, and Race classes. Most everyone answered an autocross questionnaire which asked the appropriate questions and I assigned each car a class based on that. These rules were posted at the registration table, but I doubt many people paid attention to them. At the Friday breakfast I had these rules and the list of all of the cars with their classifications and numbers that I had hoped to be able to display and discuss with anyone interested, but there simply wasn't time.

The rules are loosely based on the GGR car classifications, but highly simplified to only include a few key items - such as tires, engine, and weight reduction. Were the rules perfect? No. Could we improve them? Absolutely. But my goal for the rules was to only create 3 classes for competition based on a very simple set of criteria. Anytime you try and classify a wide varitey of cars into only 3 categories, some cars will be advantaged, and some will be disadvantaged. There is no way around it.

My other goal in the classifications was to evenly distribute the cars that participated. It doesn't do any good to have 3 classes when 90% of the cars end up in one of the classes. Based on the questionnaire, we signed up 20 cars in stock, 21 in improved, and 20 in race class. Couldn't ask for a better distribution than that.

In hindsight, yes, I would have changed a few things. But you can't change the rules after the fact to suit the results. On the whole, I think it worked very well and I would only make minor changes if I had it to do over again.

Demick




STOCK:
Tires:
Street tires with wear rating of 120 or higher AND width of 205mm or less

Engine:
Stock engine displacement and compression ratio
Stock intake and fuel system (914-4's must have stock fuel injection)

Car:
Car must be licensed and street legal.
No significant change in vehicle from stock weight (no fiberglass lids or bumpers, must have full interior)




IMPROVED:
Tires:
Street tires with wear rating of 120 or higher AND width of greater than 205mm
OR
Competition tires (AKA: DOT-R tires) with a width of 205mm or less

Engine:
Engine displacement up to 2.0 Liters (Porsche motor only).
Compression ratio no more than .5 points (euro pistons) over stock ratio.
Carbs allowed.
No Turbos (everyone knows you can't turbo a 914 anyway)

Car:
Must be street legal
Fiberglass bumpers OK, but no other major weight reduction (no fiberglass lids, not stripped interior)


RACE:
Tires:
Anything goes

Engine:
Anything goes

Car:
Anything goes


FUN:
Fun class is for non-914's and for those who are not registered for the West Coast Classic (such as GGR Instructors)