Wonderful Autocross day at Candlestick, Just a fun, beautiful sunny day! Options

[nine14cats]

PCA-GGR had their first AX of the season today at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. All the reports of rain and surf and wind were wrong. Althoug cool, it was a beautiful sunny day for the most part.

Andrew Blyholder took TTOD in his 914 on a course designed by our own Fiid. Fiid was able to run his Suby powered 914 as well. That motor sounds great when stretching it's legs. I'm afraid Fiid's gonna need more tire under those fenders.... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif)

I was able to instruct a student in a Cayman today. Nice car!

And for Fritz' first AX, he didn't do too bad. After 1.5 years of AX exile, it was a blast competing again.

2 run groups and 10 runs total.

Really a great day for all!

Bill P.

[nine14cats]

QUOTE (grantsfo @ Mar 12 2006, 08:12 AM)

QUOTE (J P Stein @ Mar 12 2006, 07:42 AM) QUOTE (nine14cats @ Mar 11 2006, 07:52 PM) Andrew Blyholder's TTOD was 1:02.5 or something like that.  Most of the field was running ~1:10's or 1:11's.   Bill P. And Bill P's times were? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) If Bills times were anywhere within 3 seconds of Andrew he was screaming. If he was within 5 seconds he was still fast. With my new six I will be happy if I get within 2-4 seconds of Andrews times this year.

I ripped off an "unofficial" 1:05.005 during the afternoon. "Unofficial" since the timing slip guy didn't know if I hit any cones. For whatever reason the timing trailer was not calling out cone counts to him. I had an earlier run of 1:05.8 clean. Both times seemed to place me 2nd overall out of the field to Andrew, not counting a 996 driver on Hoosiers who was hella fast in the morning. He was in my run group, so I don't know how far down he got.

If I did hit a cone, I still should make top 5, top 10 for sure! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif)

"Fritz" will be competitive in AX. The course design was great, but one high speed section bottomed out about 3/4's of the way down it then back up leading into a hairpin. Because of my front spoiler design (very low) that holds my front hood in place, I had to brake hard before that section. That had to cost me at least a second, maybe two.

Initially, I tried to leave the suspension settings for the big track on the car. I pushed bad all morning, running 1:09's. I loosened the front bar by over an inch and a half and took 4lbs out of the rear tires and 2 out of the front and bingo......the car was good! Gained the 4 seconds.

The 911 still won't be as nimble as our 914. You can feel the weight in the back, but it was sure fun! I hope I can make the next GGR event at Alameda. I won't have to lift there for sure....great venue....

Bill P.