So, that was a pretty fun weekend overall. This was my third Good Guys event and my first one with the new Street Machine rules which limit front tire size to a 285 max. Overall car count was down a bit because Optima was at Vegas this same weekend, but we still had a full crowd in SM which made for a lot of fun. Late in the afternoon on Friday the grid thinned out, the temps came up and those of us that stayed were treated to some hot lapping under great conditions. This let us get some heat into the tires and really cut our times down. At one point there were 4 of us from 2nd place to 5th place all within 3 tenths of each other and each of us kept getting faster on every run...it was a blast. haven't had that much fun racing with competitive speed cars and drivers in a long time. Mark Allen, Chris Hall, Adam Watkins, Rob Crosswhite and myself were all neck and neck and I luckily squeaked in a 43.047 late in the afternoon to secure second place. Tim Molzen had all all covered for first in his 63 Dodge Dart and ended up winning the class and having a very respectable showing in the shootout on Saturday.
This was an early run my Cousin Dale shot from the back side of the course. So thankful to get great on course video like this of the car...
Basically on this course, one had to time everything just right to carry the most speed into the corner, get the car whoa'd down and turned without sliding the fronts or the rears...then get back on the gas ASAP without blowing the rear tires off of it. Early on data showed I was slowing way too much on corner entry which was killing my corner speed. I put my tablet and GPS in Tom Kammans car for a run then compared his run data with mine and it showed me exactly where I had to go faster to pick up the 1-2 seconds I was leaving on the table. Thanks to Tom big time for the help and camaraderie all weekend long, he killed it in his C4 making it to the final two in the shootout Saturday afternoon.
Here was a later run where I was starting to put it all together.
This run was from inside on my 43.047 which was my fastest time of the weekend.
I was also helping Mike Hitt in his big beautiful blue Chevelle to find speed and even took a run behind the wheel of it. Me and manual brake cars just don't get along on an autocross course...eventually I'll talk Mike into putting a booster on his car. Had a blast in it though and he really picked up time even on Saturday morning before a part failure ended his day early.
Here are some pictures of some of the other cars we raced with as well of some of Barney. Again, shout out to Dale for the great shots. had a great weekend, car came home pretty much in one piece...and the driver\crew chief came home with some new ideas to make it run better at the next show.
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1985 Monte Carlo SS Street Car
So, that was a pretty fun weekend overall. This was my third Good Guys event and my first one with the new Street Machine rules which limit front tire size to a 285 max.
Woah, wait, what?
Apparently I missed the memo that the SM class is now limiting the front tire size at GG events! That, well, sucks after all of the work I've done to get a 315 front tire on TOW! Hmm...
Well, anyway, congrats on what looked like a really fun weekend!
Yup, added a Pro X class for the lightweight funny cars, Pro is fat big tire cars, SM small tire cars. Personally Im a fan... Changed the shootout format as well. ProX against Pros, SM against HR and Trucks...
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1985 Monte Carlo SS Street Car