Britain was FAST - very impressive watching him straightline and WOT through the little 'box' chicane that Rob put on the second part of the course.

Richard

Britains car:

No sway bars. Lowered in a driveway. Aligned in a driveway. New front shocks. Old rear shocks. 140 rate LINEAR rear springs. Semi sticky street tires. I have most of the newbies out on the Falken Azenia's right now. They are giving up almost 2 seconds to the Kuhmo's and probably 3 seconds to the Hoosiers. I want them to run on the Azenia's until Sept or so. After 6-8 events I will switch them over to Kuhmo's.

Great job everyone

B

Yea, I must say that I had a blast. I am really starting to enjoy pushing that little 1.7L around the course. I am starting to learn that without HP, I have to keep my foot on it and brake just enough to get around the corner. The car needs a bit on the suspension side, but I am having fun right now. Multiple people were saying that the car was leaning so much that my head was hanging out the side. I guess that I am in need of some way bars and a professional alignment. I will let everyone know that after I ran that 49.5, I had the biggest grin on my face and actually felt like I was getting faster. Expect to see me at the rest of the events both for LPR and GGR this year.

-Britain

opps

Britain,Andy everyone... This weekend Golden Gate fields.


B

I wish my car didn't overheat so bad.

I actually stopped once on the way home because oil temps were getting into the 250 range. Had to wait 20 mins for it to cool off to 220.

The autocross was generally ok because I had time while the other group was running to cool off fully. As long as I started my group of runs around 180 degrees I would be below 240 by the time I finished. But each run was raising my oil temp 10-15 degrees. It was taking my attention away from driving because I was worried about the car.

I am building a 2056 to "cure" this problem, but the 2056 build is taking 10x longer than expected with no end in sight. I am starting to consider fixing the 1.7 so it won't grenade before I am finished with it.

It's never OK to coast at an autoX. (Of course, there are exceptions to all rules...) You should either be accelerating as much as you can, braking as much as you can, or using the throttle and/or brakes to change the balance of the car and where it is heading. And sometimes you're doing all of this at once!

You have to work on not being scared of your car. Or at least, I had to work on not being scared of your car up at Reno at the WCW. I failed, too--I was definitely still scared of it at the end. But I could leave the pedal down longer than you could, and trust to that thing's magnificent brakes to keep it from going all pear-shaped... I also had a hell of a time fighting the understeer in the car at that event, my approach to the corners was all wrong for it.

...Damn, that's a car with fierce acceleration!!

--DD

Andy, well the difference between the car you are driving and the car I drive at the auto x right now is about 250hp.. lol

I cant keep my foot on the gas for very long. (and I havent learned how to left foot brake.. besides, the rear loves to come around, and I havent quite learned how to correct it 100%..)

Every time I go to an auto x, Im running different tires..

Hmm, I'll see what dad says about this weekend, I may see you guys. (golden gate fields.. wheres that? link?)

Andrew

but the same concept applies for both.

like our very own damp dave said, you should be either on the gas or on the brake or both, at all times. no coasting ...

i'd probably kill myself if i had 250 more horses

I was definitely coasting a lot. It felt like the more throttle I gave it the more I would understeer off the course and not turn in... Ok, I suck.

Im learning. Its hard to not coast, while going through a corner feeling the hoosers letting go... I guess you just cant buy used hoosers (grrr) And since you cant really hear when their letting go... I really dont like flat spotting hoosers anyways.. lol..

Andrew

Sorry, I missed a few folks in my haste to get the numbers out....

Here ya go:

Randal Barrick 914 Fm 48.528 48.528

Scott Yeaman 914-6 Fr DNF DNF 51.278 DNF 49.966 64.917 51.498 49.988 48.967 50.580 49.875 49.718 49.317 48.967

Scott Yeaman Jr 914-6 Fr 55.503 DNF 53.933 51.926 52.148 54.299 50.026 49.573 51.145 49.702 51.962 49.334 49.334

Patrick A Pickerell 914 A 59.246 58.767 69.298 58.662 60.512 57.462 56.345 55.643 55.071 56.878 55.101 54.422 54.422

Patrick E Pickerell 914 A 60.252 58.375 59.116 DNF DNF 57.933 55.337 54.722 54.593 54.593

Britain Smith 914 Ai 52.250 51.992 51.464 50.779 50.511 52.304 51.286 49.561 56.667 50.235 50.373 51.068 50.990 49.561

Jeff Keyzer 914 Ai 60.765 58.740 57.220 115.094 57.485 56.486 57.237 58.029 56.887 56.086 56.081 54.471 57.311 55.295 54.471

Trekkor Wills 914 B 63.318 59.159 59.228 58.239 58.558 56.708 57.572 55.676 55.129 55.495 55.272 55.867 58.692 55.129

Rob Ways 914 Bi 47.786 49.325 47.608 47.030 49.351 57.573 47.886 49.469 47.910 47.659 DNF 47.278 47.656 47.030

Albert Correia 914 Bp 48.943 47.406 46.941 46.331 46.155 45.861 45.861

Ken Holladay 914 Bp 51.357 52.305 50.363 DNF 51.723 50.713 51.370 48.541 54.272 48.566 51.684 49.896 49.030 48.541

Darren Doud 914 Bp 50.708 52.433 50.614 52.916 50.960 52.297 50.619 49.342 49.335 49.679 49.936 50.597 49.692 49.335

Jason Samson 914 Bp 63.193 DNF 52.780 51.050 DNF 51.430 51.152 52.267 51.760 49.487 49.487

Birgit Heinz 914 Bp 51.771 DNF 52.558 52.594 52.064 51.267 62.442 52.742 53.815 53.021 50.492 50.801 52.299 50.492

Andreas Schmidt 914 Bx 55.933 54.160 53.098 54.669 53.800 52.899 52.798 52.520 57.465 56.662 53.109 54.612 52.746 52.520

Mike Mueller 964 Mi 54.988 53.233 51.492 53.325 51.266 53.177 52.391 52.455 51.260 51.249 53.009 51.239 54.016 51.239

Richard Linsdall 911 M 53.893 53.692 53.241 52.511 51.697 DNF 52.585 53.437 52.261 53.114 53.505 DNF 51.697

Here's another shot - ranked

Albert Correia 914 Bp 2nd 45.861
Rob Ways 914 Bi 5th 47.030
Randal Barrick 914 Fm 9th 48.528
Ken Holladay 914 Bp 10th 48.541
Scott Yeaman 914-6 Fr 15th 48.967
Scott Yeaman Jr 914-6 Fr 18th 49.334
Darren Doud 914 Bp 19th 49.335
Jason Samson 914 Bp 20th 49.487
Britain Smith 914 Ai 21st 49.561
Birgit Heinz 914 Bp 26th 50.492
Mike Mueller 964 Mi 28th 51.239
Richard Linsdall 911 M 34th 51.697
Andreas Schmidt 914 Bx 37th 52.520
Patrick A Pickerell 914 A 42nd 54.422
Jeff Keyzer 914 Ai 44th 54.471
Patrick E Pickerell 914 A 45th 54.593
Trekkor Wills 914 B 46th 55.129

hey, you guys spelled my name wrong!

it's SCHMIDT with an H after the C ...
Andy

I don't know who Albert Correia is but geez, very humbling performance.

Oops my bad. Sorry.

what car was that? i took pictures of ALL 914's that were there that day ...

anyone?

going through my pictures ALL 914's are accounted for, except "Albert Correia" ...

funny thing is, i recall the guy in the white 911 (with that huge ass wing) ran a 45.xxx ...

could this be a "mixup" ?

Andy

I've got a card, the right date, and all the times. It looks like he ran the AM and split. He was in the "B" group, car#423. Did anyone catch him running?

It was a grey 914 - I mentioned him to B at lunch and we couldn't find him - I don't recall seeing him run in the PM

Richard

yep, car #423...I remember complianing* that it was hard to read his white numbers on a silver car

I didn't realize he was so darn fast!!!


*i was helping in the timing booth

Nope. Albert ran one GGR event last year with a Bp 914. He was pretty fast (9th overall). But I still beat him by over 2 seconds!

GGR Autox #7 results

Demick