914's dominate Marina except that one tail dragger Options

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Wow great course, tons of teeners and a perfect course for us. Nathan and Trekkor were 2nd and 3rd. Nathan was on the cords of his Hoosiers. Damn that was quick Nathan. No more burn outs for you!!! Trekkor has really improved his driving. Much smoother and he is starting to get fast!

Albert and I were battling it out with out 1.8s and he had a new set of Hoosiers. He won our class (BX) by less than half a second.

Thanks to Randal. Had my first instructor ride along since I started this silly sport and he taught me alot.

Nathan and Trekkor were in low 52 second range. I was about 2 seconds off the pace. Think there were at least 4 914's in top 10.

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QUOTE (Randal @ Jul 24 2005, 10:05 PM)

Trekkor's course today was actually the best one he has designed to date.   It flowed well, had lots of technical challenges and the worker positions were in the right places.  Nice job Trekkor. As Nathan said there was lot of places to get the lines wrong, and most people were, but our 914 crowd did a pretty good job. My impressions for the day:   Instructing Grant and enjoying his ability to control his car.  He is driving a 1.8 and his times reflect a much faster car.   Good job Grant.    Did you ever get a run where you didn't leave anything on the table? When we were looking at Nathan's tires before he put them on in the morning it was clear he would be lucky to get 10 runs out of them as they were on the edge.   But as always it is a kick to run with Nathan as that car just goes like stink and Nathan likes to drive it at the limit, OK, maybe a bit over, but that is the way you get fast times... I still feel he would do better with 23/24 lbs air pressure in the Hoosiers, but I guess I am the only one that believes lower pressures work better with these tires. How did you end up doing Nathan?  Every get a run where you didn't leave anything on the table? I didn't get a chance to watch or run with any of the other guys as I had to leave by 11:00AM, but what little I got to do with our guys made my day. The Marina is simply one of the best autoX venues on the planet.

Thanks again Randal you helped me see that course in a completely different way than I would have approached it. I had one run that was fairly clean and turned in a 54.2, but I gave up a little too much speed on that very slow 180 (that was a very tough corner on low powered cars). Never had a 100% clean run, but I was getting very close. Nice thing is that I constantly improved my times with each run in the afternoon session.

I was running 28 psi all around with my Hoosiers. I'll probably try 26 psi next AX just to see how it works for me.

I rode with Nathan in his car and I now understand why I cant get much closer than 2 seconds. That car has gobs more power out of the corners and Nathan knows how to use it.