SCCA National Event, Crows Landing |
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SCCA National Event, Crows Landing |
Randal |
Jun 15 2014, 09:44 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,446 Joined: 29-May 03 From: Los Altos, CA Member No.: 750 |
Live broadcast and results here: http://sololive.scca.com/
Drove down to see the event with Richard Linsdall in his new Tesla. Nice trip and during the day we sat in that supercar with the AC on. Nice. Anyway, Crow's Landing is a GREAT venue. Not sure why I've heard negative comments about this place as it's HUGE and has a great surface. Not necessarily tire friendly, but grippy. Like 280 cars and drivers. My first time to see a national event. They are run extremely well.. so well organized. Watched Bill Charron run in the morning yesterday. I think the surface was dirty and he wasn't hooking up, but he'll be at it again this morning -right about now I think. I think he was good for a low 60 second time yesterday, but not sure what running the course backwards will equate to in time today. Although watching the live feed it seems like times are maybe a bit faster this morning. Just watching the live feed: Bill didn't run with the EM group, so maybe he isn't running today or has a mechanical. Shoot. Also got to hang out and watch Britain Smith and Brad Roberts drive the yellow 914. They ran late in the afternoon when the course was clean. Car looked good, but the course (more later about this) was tough to master and you only got three shots to win the prize. Hard to drive that monster smooth on a course that is nothing but slaloms. Also had some performance issues when the ground cable got loose and fell off. TTOD day car, excluding the carts, no question. So much power, but with the slalom setup tough to take advantage. And the course, unfortunately a poor design. Nothing but slalom courses from the start to the end with two sweepers for turn arounds. It didn't flow and had nothing interesting from a drivers perspective. Who ever designed the course should be made to sit down and read Roger's book on SCCA autoxing. Sure would have liked to run this event, but maybe next year. |
Borderline |
Jun 15 2014, 07:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 720 Joined: 8-February 05 From: San Juan Bautista, CA Member No.: 3,577 Region Association: Northern California |
Andy broke his car on Sat. Those times you see for Sunday were run on a borrowed Corvette!!! Andy can drive. Not sure what happened to Brit on Sunday.
The warm weather and high winds took their toll on me. I decided not to run on Sunday. I need to rest up for Parade and save the tires. My tires look like they have been cleaned with a fine grit belt sander. Never seen anything like it! Nice photo Richard, thanks! |
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