Catching up - originally posted 6/23/05
I've been busy, so I haven't been able to get to this blog.
Memorial Day Weekend
There were two events I attended on the weekend, the SCCA event on Sunday and the BSCC event on Monday, both at Bremerton Motorsports Park, an unused runway and taxiway at Bremerton National Airport. I was in the afternoon run group on Sunday, so I got to sleep in a little before making the drive from Everett. I actually did pretty well, improved my times with each run and only coned on the first run. After the festivities were over, I helped set up the course for the next day. Since it had been run in the opposite direction by the PCA group the day before, we couldn't just turn it around again. I got out of there about 1930 and went ot the hotel - I wasn't going to drive back and forth both days...
I got up early and checked out on Monday. I was in the morning run group, so I needed to get out there and walk the course again. I had left the car and trailer at the track, so setup was unchaining the car, warming the engine and putting the nose on. I ran, improved on times for each run, but coned on the first and third runs. The fourth run was my best and I ended up 0.13 seconds out of the trophies. :( I did spin twice, both times after the finish and didn't take out any cones in the finish box - a real advantage to a car this short. Loaded the car and went home.
I was planning on running the WWSCC event at Everett on June 5 and even worked setup on Thursday evening (don't ask), but it was raining when I got up, so I went back to bed. The rain tires aren't mounted and since I can barely control the car in the dry, I don't even want to see what would happen on slicks in the wet...
Off to Bremerton on the 12th. I was in the PM group, so once again I didn't have to make the early morning drive. When I got there I discovered that things were delayed. Someone in a Lotus Elise had spun off course, clipped the timing trailer, and ended up sitting in grid, seriously trashed. It was a good thing he hit the trailer, otherwise other cars would have been damaged. It took a while to get the course modified and things back underway. The course was an absolute hoot - really fast with lots of full throttle time for me. Unfortunately, I spun in the same place on my last two runs and think I coned the other two; I haven't seen the results yet. I gotta do something about this brake bias, the rears lock up and I'm off in the spin cycle.
