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Randal
post Dec 29 2012, 08:43 PM
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We all have our special moments on the track, autoxing, running an enduro or some special motor sports event.

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post Jan 2 2013, 08:34 PM
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I have one hill climb run that I’ll always remember and then there are a bunch of autox’s. The hill climb was last year at Cascade Lakes.
This was the last run of the day after breaking the SPU record for the hill by four seconds the day before (*). The weather, unlike the day before, was finally warm and I knew my tires would hook up, so had a bunch of adrenalin working while sitting on the starting line.

When I started out and went for second I hit reverse, and then hit reverse again, and again. After 3 seconds I finally got the car into second and started up the course knowing full well that I had blown the run.

But with the warmer weather and the car sticking I decided to go for it and started pushing through the corners. After the first high speed part of the course and a (slow down slalom) everything felt good, the car was handling great and I started pushing harder (8/9 tenths) through the corners. Good news was that I made up a huge amount of time and ended up a second faster than my record run of the previous day. Also ended up within a second of the two fast well driven Z-06’s - so my day was made. (*) The first day run is on YouTube (Cascade Lakes Hill Climb / Randal Barrick)) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfwSBy8B7a8

My other run, really runs, were done on various autox venues all over CA and Oregon. My objective on any autox run is to go absolutely flat out, i.e., full acceleration, braking as hard as I can or steering through a corner; no time in between.

Of course reaching my objective of a “perfect” flat out run is tough as everything, i.e., all transitions, have to be perfect to pull it off, but once in a while you get close and the times will reflect as much. Great feeling when you get close. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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Randal   Favorite time   Dec 29 2012, 08:43 PM
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SirAndy   take a closer look at that sheet.   Dec 30 2012, 10:07 PM
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stewteral   We all have our special moments on the track, aut...   Dec 30 2012, 04:08 PM
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Racer Chris   We all have our special moments on the track, aut...   Dec 31 2012, 09:12 AM
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Randal   1) 2004 NARRC Regional Runoffs - Started on fron...   Jan 3 2013, 06:10 PM
Racer Chris   Chris, I had already seen the other two videos, b...   Jan 3 2013, 08:01 PM
Randal   We all have our special moments on the track, au...   Jan 30 2013, 09:51 AM
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