Xenonk Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 The course was well over 0.8 miles long (and super fast, think 60+ mph easy). I got owned up really bad, I guess everyone else decided to put their "A+" game cuz they really just crushed me on the 4th run. Go figure. I was stoked to know I had it right and the times were just dropping like a rock for me. (and yes, I did say "YES!" at the end of the final slalom on my 3rd run because I really hit it the way it should be). On my 4th run, you can see that I was drifting it some and you can also hear the really loud rumbling sound when I turn.. that is when your car is understeering, so wise up and take some steering out of the wheel to keep the car from understeering. The camera was mounted here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/xenonk2828/GT-Car/camera.jpg Click here to watch Keefe's GT Run#3 Click here to watch Keefe's GT Run#4 Click here for Results Enjoy! Keefe Keefe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGT Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 What's up with the Lotus drivers and their uncompetitive times? Afraid to push them??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenonk Posted June 14, 2005 Author Share Posted June 14, 2005 most likely, yes.. and too new of a car to know how to push them well. It's not hard to loop one of those cars either. Keefe Keefe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobY Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 you are my hero... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godwhomismike Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 You make me proud to own my LGT. Kick ass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutter2k Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Damn media player streaming crap. Install plugin link sends me to microsoft. Anyone get these pages to work on linux? Can you post a downloadable avi, mpeg, mov, or asf? Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgags31 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 that was really cool Keefe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSiWRX Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Totally cool.....makes me want to give this kind of stuff a try! How do you keep from hitting those cones?! -A <-- I love Winky, my "periwinkle" (ABP) LGT! - Allen / Usual Suspect "DumboRAT" / One of the Three Stooges '16 Outback, '16 WRX, 7th Subaru Family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobY Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Damn media player streaming crap. Install plugin link sends me to microsoft. Anyone get these pages to work on linux? Can you post a downloadable avi, mpeg, mov, or asf? Matt What distro do you have... it works great with suse 9.3 For other distros... You just download Mplayer and the Mplayer Plugin. Mplayer should be compiled with most distros. The plugin can be found here.... http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ There are also pre-compiled click to install RPM or DEB files you just have to find them. If you run an RPM package manager try here... http://packman.links2linux.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenonk Posted June 14, 2005 Author Share Posted June 14, 2005 Damn media player streaming crap. Install plugin link sends me to microsoft. Anyone get these pages to work on linux? Can you post a downloadable avi, mpeg, mov, or asf? Matt I can compress it into Mpeg, but the quality just sux to me.. AVI file was too big (it's my raw file). If you want, you can shoot me a PM of your email and I can send you the MPEG. Keefe Keefe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenonk Posted June 14, 2005 Author Share Posted June 14, 2005 Totally cool.....makes me want to give this kind of stuff a try! How do you keep from hitting those cones?! -A The cones are actually pretty far away, and you just have to know how wide your car is and cut the cones as close as possible. If you are afraid of a cone dirtying up your pretty paint, use "racer's tape" which is basically masking tape that is durable for car's paint use and it's strong enough to hold up things (it's also known as Nascar-tape). After about a few years into doing this, you will get use to it and you wont hit as many cones.. it's just practice. Keefe Keefe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSiWRX Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 Cool beans. Knowing how wide the car is isn't much of a problem for me - but it seems that I almost get kinda "lost" looking at the cones. Is this because I'm looking at a video, and will be less lost with more peripheral vision out on the course? Thanks for answering my noob questions! -A <-- I love Winky, my "periwinkle" (ABP) LGT! - Allen / Usual Suspect "DumboRAT" / One of the Three Stooges '16 Outback, '16 WRX, 7th Subaru Family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTSpeed Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 Keefe, Nice driving...The video was sweet! If you're willing to take a guess, what time do you think you could have ran on that course with a bone-ass-stock LGT? I think it's time to take my LGT racing. -Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenonk Posted June 15, 2005 Author Share Posted June 15, 2005 Cool beans. Knowing how wide the car is isn't much of a problem for me - but it seems that I almost get kinda "lost" looking at the cones. Is this because I'm looking at a video, and will be less lost with more peripheral vision out on the course? Thanks for answering my noob questions! -A Nope, you will be JUST AS LOST if you never walked the course. I'll try to scan in the map for this course and post it up. From my experience, it's best to walk the course and remember key points. There is no way you can do well when you just look at the parking lot as a whole because it's just a sea of cones.. when you look ahead of where you are going, you will drive faster.. I usually look about 4 to 5 gates ahead and remember key points and make mental notes for myself to look for particular parts of the course to aim for. Some cones you can just totally ignore because it has nothing to do with your race line. Try out autocrossing sometime and you'll see when you are up to the line for the very first time, all you will see is a field of cones.. it's your job to know where you are going to get the fastest time. Keefe Keefe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenonk Posted June 15, 2005 Author Share Posted June 15, 2005 Keefe, Nice driving...The video was sweet! If you're willing to take a guess, what time do you think you could have ran on that course with a bone-ass-stock LGT? I think it's time to take my LGT racing. -Mike With RE92s? I could probably do something like a 62 to 63 second run. I would max out the stock camber and really bump up the tire pressures, run only 2 gallons of fuel in the car. In stock class, you can have r-compound tires, aftermarket shocks that doesnt lower the ride height, and a front sway bar, air intake panel filter, and an axleback exhaust. (I know, it's not exactly stock, but those are the SCCA rules for what is allowed in Stock class mods). If put on a set of Hoosiers, I am sure that I can come VERY close to my STU times by no more of a difference than .5 seconds. You'll be suprised that some "stock" class cars can actually beat out Street Touring cars (and it's really the difference in tires where Street Tires just suck, but it keeps the cost down for racing use). Yes, I forgot to mention, the driver skills would be the same level, it's just that some stock cars are just that much faster with just new shocks, front sway bar, and racing tires. Hoosiers can last about 8 to 10 events with maybe 200 to 1000 miles of public road driving? (something like that). Street tires can last 2 to 3x the amount of events and you can still put about 15,000 to 20,000 miles on them before you need a new set. I decided street touring because I like to just show up to a race and not have to change tires. I hope that helps.. Keefe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSiWRX Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Keefe, Again, thanks. I will definitely course-walk with more seasoned drivers as well as will try my best to commit their pointers to memory, as you directed. I am planning on making my first AutoX outing later this fall, representing both LGTs and our local Subaru Owner's Club, LERSOC, in a good-natured Subaru/Mazda day at a local event - I'd love to get in some classes and some sessions/seat-time before the event, but that will be very touch-and go, as my wife and I just bought a house and are in the midst of moving...and the lab will be getting very busy with a big, long-duration experiment as soon as I return from my vacation (read: move). So needless to say, I'm totally prepared to be the slow-poke and to humbly humiliate myself - being as this will both likely be my first time putting the car to such a pace as well as will be my first event. My goals are to first of all be safe - and second to simply be "clean" and also to not knock down too, too many cones with Winky. -A <-- I love Winky, my "periwinkle" (ABP) LGT! - Allen / Usual Suspect "DumboRAT" / One of the Three Stooges '16 Outback, '16 WRX, 7th Subaru Family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenonk Posted June 16, 2005 Author Share Posted June 16, 2005 Be smooth, look ahead, and keep telling yourself "dont over drive the car".. and you find out that you are way faster than being all hardcore about it and getting a slower time. Remember, the more you spend time on the gas to the floor, the more likely hood that you will be hitting the brakes just that much longer.. It's all about maintaining your average top speed higher than everyone else's to win these kinds of races since the race line is fairly of the same distance. Keefe Keefe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSiWRX Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Hey, I may be smooth with the ladies, but by the looks of things, the "driving skills" gene for the extended Lee family (guess what my last name is? yes, I'm first-generation Chinese) may have gone to you. I'll definitely keep telling myself to "be smooth, be smooth!" And you betcha I'll be taking it easy. I really don't want to embarass either myself nor get any head-shakes against LERSOC/greater-Scooby community in-general. My goals are simply to keep safe, enjoy myself, pick up some pointers and get started in AutoX as a true hobby, and not make an ass out of myself. -A <-- I love Winky, my "periwinkle" (ABP) LGT! - Allen / Usual Suspect "DumboRAT" / One of the Three Stooges '16 Outback, '16 WRX, 7th Subaru Family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenonk Posted June 16, 2005 Author Share Posted June 16, 2005 Hey, I may be smooth with the ladies, but by the looks of things, the "driving skills" gene for the extended Lee family (guess what my last name is? yes, I'm first-generation Chinese) may have gone to you. I'll definitely keep telling myself to "be smooth, be smooth!" And you betcha I'll be taking it easy. I really don't want to embarass either myself nor get any head-shakes against LERSOC/greater-Scooby community in-general. My goals are simply to keep safe, enjoy myself, pick up some pointers and get started in AutoX as a true hobby, and not make an ass out of myself. -A haha, if only my "smooth" driving skills ever become as my "smooth" lady skillz, I should be able get any woman's attention (call me Hitch ) Btw, 1st-gen Chinese here also. I started autoxing with a 1993 Acura Legend Sedan in AUTO! it can't be any more embarrassing than that. If any, just dont go off-course, that's the most embarrassing thing to do at an autox.. it's like dating a girl and not knowing how to talk to them on a date. Keefe Keefe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSiWRX Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 .. it's like dating a girl and not knowing how to talk to them on a date. Obviously, Keefe, you've not yet spoken to my wife. I'll do my absolute best to keep Winky on-track. I don't mind being the slowest guy out there (add my hefty porky butt to the car, and no wonder Winky is slower!), as long as I keep her between the cones. -A <-- I love Winky, my "periwinkle" (ABP) LGT! - Allen / Usual Suspect "DumboRAT" / One of the Three Stooges '16 Outback, '16 WRX, 7th Subaru Family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abakja1 Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Brings back memories of SCCA racing in a 87 Firebird Formula I had once,.. That layout is a lot faster than any we had in Hawaii,..but,.. Out of curiousity,..do you "left foot brake" thru any of the slaloms that you went thru?? Or has your suspension setup allowed you to use momemtum to carry your thru and keep your balanced enough?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenonk Posted June 18, 2005 Author Share Posted June 18, 2005 Brings back memories of SCCA racing in a 87 Firebird Formula I had once,.. That layout is a lot faster than any we had in Hawaii,..but,.. Out of curiousity,..do you "left foot brake" thru any of the slaloms that you went thru?? Or has your suspension setup allowed you to use momemtum to carry your thru and keep your balanced enough?? I only left foot brake when I need to scrub some speed off and still stay on full throttle through some corners and tight skidpads. My suspension allows me to be near full throttle for the slalom, it's a blast to just rocket your car through the slalom. If anything, just a small lift of the throttle (and I really mean SMALL), it's enough to get the front end to bite, and you just get into a flow of the slalom just have at it. I would say in that course, I only hit the brakes like 4 times, and only 1 time I used 100% threshold braking, the rest was just a tap here and there to just get some trail braking to get the car rotate under load. Keefe Keefe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWortham Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Bringing this one back... Was this a solo 1 event? I noticed it was a bigger, better, and faster course than the solo 2 events I've been to. And you need a special license to run in solo 1, correct? How would you suggest getting into solo 1? I read in one place that a competition license is required and you can obtain one at some driving schools. And then I read somewhere else that you can compete at three solo 1 events as a novice to obtain a solo 1 license, or something to that effect. I think there's a 3-day driving school sometime this year I could go to that's pretty close at the Texas Motor Speedway, but it's $500. It would be one way to get a regional competition license though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenonk Posted July 20, 2006 Author Share Posted July 20, 2006 bringing this back since I didnt replied to it. Nah, this is a solo2 event, it's just that our parking lot is big and we average a speed of 45 to 60 mph.. I dont recall solo1 needing a license. but for hillclimbs and such, you do need safety equipment.. Not sure what SCCA really needs for Solo1 racing, but you can find out everything you need at Sports Car Club of America Keefe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWortham Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 Thanks. I was having trouble finding information on it for my area. But I found out why, there are no solo 1 events in my area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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