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sperry · 2004-10-11, 03:26 PM

Well the season ended with a bang for some, and a whimper for others... Matt and Eric finished with some awesome driving... so awesome that it really put the hurt on us poor non-STi driver.

IMO, the final course was very STi friendly... It seemed like the speeds were right inline with the middle of the STi's power band in 2nd gear, which means they were right in the uber-bog-zone bottom of second for the WRXs.

For reference, both Matt and Eric whamped on Dean, who in turn handily beat all the rest of the us like he normally does. To make things worse, both Kevin and I were running in NSM (Street Tire Street Modified) with our way-underprepped SM cars... so we got slaughtered in PAX.

Even with the "unusual" course, the final weekend actually had some pretty good battles. Matt and Eric were trading times almost every run. Dean and I were closer than usual at only 4 tenths apart... (that may have been our closest finish all season... though at the time I was concerning myself with catching Matt and Eric

). Kevin and Tyson were going at it... pitting Kevin's gearing against Tyson's power (Tyson took it by 2 tenths on his last run)!

In retrospec, I figure I actually drove pretty well (even though I felt slow seeing those STi's kill me), since I was only about 4 tenths off Dean, and he's usually closer to a second ahead of me. But because of my PAX factor alone, I lost like 3 positions in overall PAX season standings, and ended up getting beat by Matt! If I had run in STX, I probably would have ended up one place higher than Matt in the season standings!

Oh well, those are the sacrifices you have to make for a better track car. Not being able to go up in boost due to STX rules sucks, so if that means I'm in SM, so be it!

And, since this was the last event, I got the pleasure of reviewing the whole season and I have to say, SECCS straight up represented!! Since the final season standings aren't totally official yet, I probably shouldn't say too much, but it looks like SECCS members are going to take home around 10 trophies! :shock: That's like 15% of all the awards this year!

Nice job everyone!

2004-10-11, 03:26 PM	#19
sperry The Doink Real Name: Scott Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 20,335 Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata Class: PDX/TT-6 The way out is through	Well the season ended with a bang for some, and a whimper for others... Matt and Eric finished with some awesome driving... so awesome that it really put the hurt on us poor non-STi driver. IMO, the final course was very STi friendly... It seemed like the speeds were right inline with the middle of the STi's power band in 2nd gear, which means they were right in the uber-bog-zone bottom of second for the WRXs. For reference, both Matt and Eric whamped on Dean, who in turn handily beat all the rest of the us like he normally does. To make things worse, both Kevin and I were running in NSM (Street Tire Street Modified) with our way-underprepped SM cars... so we got slaughtered in PAX. Even with the "unusual" course, the final weekend actually had some pretty good battles. Matt and Eric were trading times almost every run. Dean and I were closer than usual at only 4 tenths apart... (that may have been our closest finish all season... though at the time I was concerning myself with catching Matt and Eric ). Kevin and Tyson were going at it... pitting Kevin's gearing against Tyson's power (Tyson took it by 2 tenths on his last run)! In retrospec, I figure I actually drove pretty well (even though I felt slow seeing those STi's kill me), since I was only about 4 tenths off Dean, and he's usually closer to a second ahead of me. But because of my PAX factor alone, I lost like 3 positions in overall PAX season standings, and ended up getting beat by Matt! If I had run in STX, I probably would have ended up one place higher than Matt in the season standings! Oh well, those are the sacrifices you have to make for a better track car. Not being able to go up in boost due to STX rules sucks, so if that means I'm in SM, so be it! And, since this was the last event, I got the pleasure of reviewing the whole season and I have to say, SECCS straight up represented!! Since the final season standings aren't totally official yet, I probably shouldn't say too much, but it looks like SECCS members are going to take home around 10 trophies! :shock: That's like 15% of all the awards this year! Nice job everyone! __________________ Is you is, or is you ain't, my con-stit-u-ints?