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MAYBE we can get patti out there!
Here is the link http://isuzu-suvs.com/events
-mike
Anyway, for tomorrow, in fact tonite, get a gallon bottle and fill it half way with drinking water and freeze it. Top off the rest in the morning. You'll need it.
-Dave
Ed was knocking on my doors @ ~47 sec. and... he wasn't even pushing his Forester.
Glad you could come out to play
-Dave
-mike
I finished 8th of 8, or if you're scoring from home, dead last. I averaged about 2 seconds slower than Dave (hypov) and about 7 seconds slower than the leaders. My off on the first run was due to the fact that I didn't know which side of the "pointer cone" I was supposed to drive on! Somehow I missed that when I was reading the novice info @ autox4u.com. Looking at the results I can see that I did improve with each run and that's what counts. I managed to do that without really pushing the car or the tires ("performance all-seasons" but street tires nonetheless; everyone else was running on dedicated track tires). I really wasn't sure how the car would perform or, based on talking to the people at the registration tent, whether they'd even let me run (tallest, tippiest car out there). My solo runs were faster than my runs with an instructor (dead weight?).
One snafu that embarrassed me and made me a bit angry: after one of my runs with an instructor a prepared Triumph Spitfire came up very fast behind me. I was waved into the area between the track and the paddock and that's where the instructor decided he wanted to get out. He asked me to stop; I stopped; he got out; the Spitfire passed me on my right as he was getting out; I beeped at the Spitfire and everybody started yelling at me. NOW I know I wasn't supposed to stop but the instructor should have known that as well. I missed that instruction in my reading and it wasn't made explicit during the novices meeting, so I was a little mad at the assumption that novices should know all the rules.
I imagine I was good for a chuckle for at least some of the spectators, as at one time someone said it looked like I was "out for a walk in the park" and at least two people called my car "the flying shoebox." (The NASA people put an extra "r" in "Forester" as well.)
I'm sorry I couldn't stay for the cookout but glad the Subaru crowd enjoyed the beans. They weren't anything special - just a couple cans of Bush's Best. Apologies to the non-pork eaters but I figured there were enough options that they wouldn't go hungry.
Thanks to paisan for the encouragement. Special thanks to Dave (hypov) for the helmet loaner and major moral support, and for hanging out under our adjustable rear wings (a/k/a tailgates) between heats.
Ed
Will he be back! Hopefully he'll catch the fever that Hypov did be back in full force with the Scooby Nuts! Next event hopefully it won't be so hot and the cookout will be better. Also the SVX will be running at the next event so I'm sure there will be several Fun Runs with it.
-mike
After hearing Dave talk about it so much at the Woodbridge meet, my wife is even thinking about taking her OB out.
Ed
IMO it was a victory for you to even get out there. It's about having fun and improving upon your own times, and that you did, I'm sure.
Besides, looks like your times were quicker than some Accords and V6 Maximas (in other classes).
-juice
In fact, there may not be much. The usual film crew were all running in 'H' that day. Would be a bummer if there weren't any.
-Dave
-juice
Did you get any flak about being an "SUV" or were you put in H-class without much argument?
BTW, what tires are you running?
Ken
Tires? Ed had his daily drivers on. SP Sport 5000 is it? No, Michelin Pilot Sport A/S.
-Dave
-juice
-mike
Tires were the street tires, Michelin Pilot Sport A/S. They show very little wear but again, I didn't push them. An Impreza owner offered to swap on a set of Falken track tires on WRX wheels but I declined as I knew there would be clearance issues.
Ed
-mike
I think I can do much better next time. Again if I focus on the original goals - to gain better knowledge of the car and to improve my times with each run - then I was successful.
Ed
Think about it - the Forester and the RS have the same final drive and ratios, so only the bigger tires on the Forester make the gearing more relaxed.
-juice
-mike
Remember my P7 fiasco? It's the wheels, not the tires, that would have been the problem. Wrong offset, ya know.
I left it in "3" a couple of times, then went to shifting from "1" to "2" as in my old '79 Hondamatic. Times were better with the latter approach though I doubt that was the primary factor.
Ed
The wheel wells would look kind of empty, live Dave's Outback that one time, but I bet they would fit.
-juice
Ed
-mike
Ooooo I might get to ride the SVX sooooon
-Dave
-mike
-Dave
-mike
Ed
-mike
I'm coming
-Dave
-mike
-Dave
-mike
Want that first glimpse of the SVX
... and watch it's tail end later
-Dave
Mark
-mike
Just checking that things are still on for this Sat (9/21). Assuming everything is a go, I'll see you at the OB crossing at 7:30 AM. I'm looking forward to it!
Mark
-mike
Frank is coming up from Atlanta and we're gonna get a bite on Tuesday 10/22. We're meeting up at the Farragut West Metro (time not set yet), and probably walking over to El Chalan, a Chilean/Salvadorean place on I street that has some good steaks and latin american foods.
Let us know if you can join. So far we got Frank, Mike, Bob, and myself.
-juice
Bob
Bluesubie:
One of the last shots of Al-gator:
Bat felt the need for speed:
The rest are at:
http://isuzu-suvs.com/events/sbd-10-08-02/index.htm
-mike
I think some car dealers use the Glenmont lot for overflow, so you can check those out.
LOL, Ed.
Dennis looks almost bald in that pic, but he wasn't last time I saw him. Is that stress, or the effect of that lighting?
RIP Al Gator.
Bat wore blue. :-)
-juice
juice - I AM almost bald. :-D I just wear a hat a lot. I also recently cut what I did have off.
Yeah, nice pic of me getting ready to run to the bathroom. :-)
The pic of Ed is also a good one.
Poor Al Gator. :-(
-Dennis
My hair line is receeding so fast, you'd think the left side of my head is racing the right side! I just got a buzz cut, too.
-juice
Bob
-juice