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sperry · 2003-09-01, 11:06 AM

Lovelock was dope!

The track consisted of three legs, one out a taxiway, one down the runway, and one back in the taxiway. The wierd part was that because the runway was "active" when a plane came in, we'd have to run around tossing cones off the runway so the plane could land! Luckily we only had two planes come in... one early before the event started came in to refuel, and another later during the 2nd run group (iirc) for a touch and go.

The Saturday course was really difficult. Tons of cones and DNF's. It had a lot of long, fast straights interrupted by very tight, narrow chicanes and hairpins. Very difficult, but not necessarily "unfair" or a BS hard course. You could go fast, but only if you had a lot of balls to really push it on the straights and lots of precision to get it thru the small stuff.

The Sunday course was changed quite a bit. In addition to running the course in the opposite direction, Dave also opened up the course a LOT. Times were a good 10 seconds faster on Sunday! Most of the spots that had been tight corners were now additional straights, connected with some high speed transitions. I almost lost it on the starting slalom... my stock springs allow for a ton of body roll on fast transitions, and I must have fish-tailed it 3 times before finally hauling the car back into control!

The only problems with Derby field: it's small... there's very little room for the paddock and grid. It's also in the middle of nowhere... no food or anything for like 10 miles... I had no idea it would be so isolated, so I didn't pack a lunch, thanks to the Evans, Debbie and the Debordes for spotting me food! Finally... there's rattlesnakes at the airfield... you gotta watch yourself out there!

It looks like the Hawthorne event is going to be moved to Lovelock. The people there are really friendly, the Ramada's a decent hotel (happy hour domestic beers only 50 cents!!) and the pavement at the airfield is pretty nice. So everyone'll have a second chance to do a Lovelock event. Plus, it looks like we're going to be trying to pull off the show-n-shine that event, so I'll prolly need as many SECCS people as possible!

I'm about to upload some pics from the event... they'll be up here shortly!

2003-09-01, 11:06 AM	#37
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	Lovelock was dope! The track consisted of three legs, one out a taxiway, one down the runway, and one back in the taxiway. The wierd part was that because the runway was "active" when a plane came in, we'd have to run around tossing cones off the runway so the plane could land! Luckily we only had two planes come in... one early before the event started came in to refuel, and another later during the 2nd run group (iirc) for a touch and go. The Saturday course was really difficult. Tons of cones and DNF's. It had a lot of long, fast straights interrupted by very tight, narrow chicanes and hairpins. Very difficult, but not necessarily "unfair" or a BS hard course. You could go fast, but only if you had a lot of balls to really push it on the straights and lots of precision to get it thru the small stuff. The Sunday course was changed quite a bit. In addition to running the course in the opposite direction, Dave also opened up the course a LOT. Times were a good 10 seconds faster on Sunday! Most of the spots that had been tight corners were now additional straights, connected with some high speed transitions. I almost lost it on the starting slalom... my stock springs allow for a ton of body roll on fast transitions, and I must have fish-tailed it 3 times before finally hauling the car back into control! The only problems with Derby field: it's small... there's very little room for the paddock and grid. It's also in the middle of nowhere... no food or anything for like 10 miles... I had no idea it would be so isolated, so I didn't pack a lunch, thanks to the Evans, Debbie and the Debordes for spotting me food! Finally... there's rattlesnakes at the airfield... you gotta watch yourself out there! It looks like the Hawthorne event is going to be moved to Lovelock. The people there are really friendly, the Ramada's a decent hotel (happy hour domestic beers only 50 cents!!) and the pavement at the airfield is pretty nice. So everyone'll have a second chance to do a Lovelock event. Plus, it looks like we're going to be trying to pull off the show-n-shine that event, so I'll prolly need as many SECCS people as possible! I'm about to upload some pics from the event... they'll be up here shortly! __________________ Is you is, or is you ain't, my con-stit-u-ints?