My Mom moved to hawaii so the race is on! hahaha.

I took my Mom out to lunch today, so I may try to do both morning and afternoon both saturday and sunday depending on how worried I am about finals.

I saw my Mom last weekend in lieu of this weekend.

So did I! ;)

Yay for you!
Bring them out, let them know there are some moms there who autox who really enjoy it, and see if they want to get in for a ride, or even give it a try themselves. Tell them I, as a Mom, said it's very liberating.

But at the very least if you don't see her on Sunday - give her a call and let her know you really appreciate her.

Thats all I have to do. My Mother lives far far away.

I can see my Mom's house from the tarmac at Stead. I'll just take a drive up to see her after the event. :D

There's also an event in PHX on Saturday. If you're sick of the cold weather up there come on down- its supposed get up to 105° here.

Its' been 80 all week!

I did a track event when I was down there at PIR with the Bondurant school... it was 117*. Feck. I'm SO GLAD to be back in Reno... Except I miss Angie and Jimmy's sub shop... If you haven't been there Pat, I HIGHLY suggest it!!!

¿Dónde está?

IIRC, it's at Indian School and about 35th avenue... From I17, head west on Indian School, and it's on the right hand side. Order the Italian Cold Cut Sub. it's making me hungry just thinking about it...

Any Sacromento ringers coming?

Wait, the corvette guys are still complaining even though there is a BSP Corvette at the top of the pack? On race tires, no less. -NevadaSTI
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Take a look at his address. He's going for the PAX title.

I wonder too. The bay area autox forum has a thread that they are wondering why there are no events down there this weekend, and someone posted that there is an event up here.

I helped set up the course today. It doesn't look like I'll be doing any downshifts to 1st but thats what I said last event. See you all tomarrow.

I won't make it this weekend. Possibly not next event, either (right next to my wife's bday = no money or time). I don't know if I'll make it to more than one or two events this year.

I'm thinking about selling my subzeros and azenis in order to fund a few other little bits.

Link to my first run on Sat. Man was I slow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjev2j2O7zY

And one more...faster but eat a cone in the outside of the finishing curve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxQMyqAPTEY

Wow, hurry up and wait, huh? A 3 minute vid for 50 seconds of autox. :lol:

I'll post some of the pictures from today when I get a card reader. From what I can see on the two inch screen they look good but I was only able to get the first run group before I got kicked off the course.

Oh was that you that got kicked off the course? I was at station 6 with the big guy that kicked you off. Yah, you gotta get a spotter next time. Can't wait to see the pics.

Happy Mom's day all you Mothers. :P

I had a spotter for the first run group and I was coming over to six to ask if one of you guys would spot me but that guy wasn't having any of it. Oh well, I just napped in Pete's car instead.

and got harassed by my mom. :lol:
whats up man.

Corner worker <> spotter. You have to have your own, the corner workers already have a job... :)

Car crapped on me today... Saturday was not bad at all tho! Overall, a good weekend!

What's wrong with your car Cory?

I'm sure the corner he went to needed all 6 workers.

Congratulations to MikeK for beating an old man by .001 seconds today in SM. I knew I should have taken the walker out of the trunk to save weight. :P

What is really funny is that we tied in PAX. :lol:

Subbies really represented today. Congrats everyone.

Cory, what's up with the car? I can recommend a good mechanic. :)

It was good to see the rolling money pit out there today. ;) It will be interesting when Scott gets his car dialed in.

Not the point. It is not the photographer's call. It is the Safety Steward's. He needed to ask before doing, not the other way around.

If we have excess workers and you ask the safety steward, they might be willing to pull someone from a corner. But not asking will get you in trouble every time. That is all I'm trying to say.

I didn't expect that big of a drop from yesterday. But getting 6 runs in was Awesome! :cool:

Oh, and most importantly, Thanks Matt and Scott!!!

Yes many thanks, great event today!

Werd!

Yeah. Awesome course both days Matt and Scott. I had a lot of fun.

I'm just glad I got my groove back and was able to be sorta competitive again.

I had a lot of fun today, thank you to Dean, Nick, Kevin, Derrick, Mike, Cory and others for all the help this weekend.

Dean, I was looking for the Safety Steward that I spoke to before the first run group but he was nowhere to be found once the second run group started. That's why I walked to six since they had so many people.

No worries though.

In the second group Helen Perry was the Safety Steward. In the future you could also look for the Event Chair(s) directly if you can't find the orange vest.

How did the afternoon go and what did the times look like?

My F*ing car is doin' some strange stuff. It feels like the fuel pickup is running dry, but the car has 1/4 tank in it. I checked for leaks and such, nothing. The only other time it did it was event 1 when Scott and I were driving, and it had 1/4 tank then too... I've had more than that at every event since, including Saturday, and had no problems, but when it's at 1/4, if I find myself accellerating out of a fast corner, the engine cuts out. It really feels like fuel slosh, but I didn't think I'd be able to slosh it THAT bad, even at 1/4 tank. That's the only thing I can think of tho, since it won't do it at 1/2 tank. Looks like I will need to run more fuel from now on...

Oh, and I do need to add a BIG thanks to Scott and Matt for an awesome course! That was a TON of fun guys! And no thanks needed for the help Matt, I'm just glad things went smoothly!

Adding another round of applause for all the work from Matt, Scott, Carrie, all the SECCS folks out there who put in extra effort to make the weekend. And, one of my best Mothers Day, ever!

Strange Cory.

I started below the 1/4 mark and My low fuel light came on during my last run or maybe 2nd to last and i didn't have any problems. Although i don't like being that low on gas so I plan on showing up with at least 3/8's of a tank in the future. but at my skill level i don't think the weight is much of a factor.


Oh and Joey,

The yellow (300ZX?) 13 EM had some more oil come off it on its first run. it was smoking at the line for its 1st and 2nd runs. I heard something about it being oil on the rails on the radio, but it was windy and I never asked the owner afterwards what really happened.

So there was a small delay on starting for the kitty litter and sweeping. and part way through some weird small green bugs flew in and started to annoy everyone. Then came my turn to drive. :) Lots of fun! I found the course challenging but also really fun! I think my best was a 47.4 something, and i got beat with a 46.x something . not quite sure what the Karts were running i know i saw one 40 but i don't know if that was a slow or quick time for them. (or if that run was clean)

If it was in/after either the tank slapper tight section, or more likely the right hand sweepers, I'd lean towards a dry pickup issue.

We had quite a few heavy acceleration right handers on Sunday. Was it a clockwise course when you and Scott had problems?

I really had fun this weekend. Saturday left me really frustrated becuase the course was super tough to get a grasp on, especially with only 4 runs. Sunday was awesome though. Thanks again Matt & Scott. It's good to be back in SM :D

My sentiment's exactly. :)

Happy Belated Mothers Day. I meant to say something yesterday, but it slipped my mind. Rachel is looking faster and faster out there every event.

Being a parent, I can't imagine a better gift for Mother's / Father's day then to be able to spend the day doing something you love to do with your child.

...And your child liking/loving it too. This morning she asked me when the next autox was, when I told her it was Memorial Day weekend, she says, "darn - I can't wait". :lol: Thanks to everyone who is encouraging her on!

Interesting re: fuel cutout -- John Burns, the #38 kart driver, said he was having a problem with his fuel system this weekend too. Though I realize karts are alot different from subarus, and Dean's explanation makes alot of sense.

Green bugs - we were out at station 5 during group 3, those were really annoying!! For the longest time I couldn't find a place to stand where they weren't swarming. I think I might've brought a couple of them home with me too, blech.

Those guys were everywhere. They attacked me in the morning at registration too.

I think it was maybe a first for Stead, but I was actually hoping the wind would pick up and blow those little guys away. :lol:

Yep, I'm leaning towards that, due to the nature of the incident. Both times it's happened, it's been a clockwise course, and it's happened coming out of a high speed RH increasing radius corner, and only when the car's near 1/4 tank. As I pick up speed out of the corner, power cuts. Seems pretty simple, I just really didn't think my car would be able to do that to itself! Guess I'm pushing it harder than I thought! :D