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Post by prancingdawg on Nov 12, 2006 19:41:39 GMT -5
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Post by markt on Nov 12, 2006 19:54:01 GMT -5
Finish of another great season, great folks, great competition, great weather(for the most part this season), if you missed it, we feel your pain, but our joy as well...
"Live every day as though it's going to be your last; for some day you're sure to be right." - B. Morant
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Post by damnyankee on Nov 12, 2006 20:07:18 GMT -5
It was a "difficult" finish. I coned on two of my runs there.  Just one more new thing that I learned.  I think "Rankin" corner ;D was much more difficult to do. But all in all, I had fun today!! |
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Post by nitroc5 on Nov 12, 2006 20:10:51 GMT -5
Finish of another great season, great folks, great competition, great weather(for the most part this season), if you missed it, we feel your pain, but our joy as well... I agree absolutely  |
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Post by prancingdawg on Nov 12, 2006 20:25:49 GMT -5
Melynn and I hadta work during your run group, Rick. She wanted to ride widya. Maybe next year eh?
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Post by damnyankee on Nov 12, 2006 20:28:52 GMT -5
Did Melynn have a good time? Is she hooked now?
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Post by prancingdawg on Nov 12, 2006 20:31:15 GMT -5
She says she is. Keeps talkin' about money and time. I told her she's welcome anytime. She may be at your Statesville event in December if I persuade her and Steven...shouldn't take too much. Besides, I need a gofer and a tirewarmer  |
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Post by prancingdawg on Nov 12, 2006 20:32:44 GMT -5
BTW, sorry I missed out on the cake and other goodies, she treated me to Chinese... any leftovers Deb can bring to work tomorrow or did you eat em all?
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Post by sleeper on Nov 12, 2006 20:34:01 GMT -5
My last run would've been a 40.8 except I absolutely plowed into two cones after the finish line. My next fastest run was good enough for first, but damn if that finish line wasn't tricky.
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Post by prancingdawg on Nov 12, 2006 20:34:20 GMT -5
Oh, and Zimmer told her he was single... I told her he was just pullin' her laig, but she definitely bit on it... way too funny, if you know Melynn at all... |
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Post by prancingdawg on Nov 12, 2006 20:35:50 GMT -5
Steven, I feel yore pain. I plowed em that way at the end of my quickest run as well... had the foot on the floorboard all the way through the finish...
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Post by prancingdawg on Nov 12, 2006 20:37:12 GMT -5
FAulkner seemedta have no trouble though... devil  |
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Post by damnyankee on Nov 12, 2006 20:51:24 GMT -5
BTW, sorry I missed out on the cake and other goodies, she treated me to Chinese... any leftovers Deb can bring to work tomorrow or did you eat em all? They were good cookies and cake!! Deb sez, no cookies or cake left Cassino ate them all!!! She will bring yer trophy though!! |
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Post by damnyankee on Nov 12, 2006 20:53:34 GMT -5
She says she is. Keeps talkin' about money and time. I told her she's welcome anytime. She may be at your Statesville event in December if I persuade her and Steven...shouldn't take too much. Besides, I need a gofer and a tirewarmer Yer braver than I!!! |
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Post by soloracer on Nov 12, 2006 21:07:54 GMT -5
BTW, sorry I missed out on the cake and other goodies, she treated me to Chinese... any leftovers Deb can bring to work tomorrow or did you eat em all? They were good cookies and cake!! Deb sez, no cookies or cake left Cassino ate them all!!! She will bring yer trophy though!! Deb cookies AND cake? Missed them. Whine!! James |
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Post by lagunamiata on Nov 12, 2006 21:14:40 GMT -5
I was just stopping by to say hello and she feeds me... what a lady!!
Ya got a good one Ken!
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Post by soloracer on Nov 12, 2006 21:18:57 GMT -5
I was just stopping by to say hello and she feeds me... what a lady!! Ya got a good one Ken! Agreed. Deb rocks, guess ken is o.k. too. lol ;D James |
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Post by damnyankee on Nov 12, 2006 21:19:13 GMT -5
She knows the way to a man's heart!!!
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Post by damnyankee on Nov 12, 2006 21:20:29 GMT -5
James, you KNOW she ALWAYS brings her goodies!!!
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Post by rob falkner on Nov 13, 2006 6:29:55 GMT -5
the finish was trickie yes, the secret was to brake before the corner then toss the car and catch, not too difficult is it. ;D
it was much more difficult than I though it was going to be.
with 20-20 hindsight I would have WIDENED the exit.
I feel we had a sea of cones problem also.
thanks to all who help with the running of a great event.
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Post by caSSino on Nov 13, 2006 6:55:31 GMT -5
BTW, sorry I missed out on the cake and other goodies, she treated me to Chinese... any leftovers Deb can bring to work tomorrow or did you eat em all? They were good cookies and cake!! Deb sez, no cookies or cake left Cassino ate them all!!! She will bring yer trophy though!! I only had 2 cookies. |
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Post by Warp3 on Nov 13, 2006 10:46:49 GMT -5
the finish was trickie yes, the secret was to brake before the corner then toss the car and catch, not too difficult is it. ;D That's actually what I ended up doing on my last 3 runs. I almost overshot it on my 1st run, so starting with the 2nd run, I'd stab the brake at the gate just before the finish lights and lightly drift the car through the finish which seemed to work quite well. Never could convince myself to take the "kink" as fast as I knew the car could do it, though. Instead, I rode the brakes lightly through the kink then got back on the gas coming out of it which kept the car nice and stable through that section. |
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Post by bigredgto on Nov 14, 2006 13:24:16 GMT -5
I thought the course was very well setup. I esp liked the last section it was fast, yet, is was technical and the finish was great! haha
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Post by prancingdawg on Nov 14, 2006 16:07:04 GMT -5
Kink? What kink?
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Post by Warp3 on Nov 14, 2006 17:22:14 GMT -5
The offset section at the end of the long straight. |
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Post by C4Shane on Nov 14, 2006 18:07:23 GMT -5
That was dead straight to the Fiesta...small enuf to just set it to one side and blast thru it....Colin seemed to not need to brake there, but I used them at the cone.
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Post by Warp3 on Nov 14, 2006 22:45:36 GMT -5
Well I'm pretty sure the WRX could have flat-footed it too, but I couldn't convince myself to risk it, so I wussed out and rode through it with light-to-moderate braking (seeing and hearing about several curb near misses after that section probably had an effect on that thought process since I was in the 4th group).
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Post by prancingdawg on Nov 14, 2006 22:59:31 GMT -5
The offset section at the end of the long straight. There was an offset there? Oh, yeah, I remebber now. I saw it as I wizzed pastit, just before the " oh nutse, I needta brake" took over... |
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Post by trickbrick on Nov 14, 2006 23:01:08 GMT -5
Hehe...sometimes it is difficult to drive with no fear!
Personally, if the twisties are more gentle like a road coarse (like the autocrosses we have at TGPRX!), I forget to go fast and just kinda coast along. I didn't have a hard time going through the "more difficult" passages, it was the easy stuff I didn't do right! LOL. ;D
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Post by prancingdawg on Nov 14, 2006 23:02:15 GMT -5
Well I'm pretty sure the WRX could have flat-footed it too, but I couldn't convince myself to risk it, so I wussed out and rode through it with light-to-moderate braking (seeing and hearing about several curb near misses after that section probably had an effect on that thought process since I was in the 4th group). I deliberately kept the right foot planted on the floor through the last run and didden liftit...mowed the cones and was so flustered didden ebben back up to avoid a dnf... or was that a previous run...  |
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