Thunderhill
Just wanted to let everyone know this was a
great event for all who attended. I brought up
a couple of buddies and thanked them many times
for helping me out.. they kept thanking me for letting
them come along. One buddy did a lot of videos from
many angles with my new go pro so hope to post soon
Lots of action for those running and watching
A bunch of Lateral g guys and many vendors with
a lot of info if you ask questions
... Jimmy and the Optima crew did a great job.. he said they had
roughly 80 entries and 14 newbees....
Everyone should come out and support these guys
and RUN YOUR CARS.. THAT IS WHY WE BUILD THEM
My goal was to try and sort my car out and try to
get familiar with it after not really running it much for 10 years
plus... I also changed everything so it was a new car to me
We did 13 stop box runs and during that time had a buddy
we met a few years ago at Good guys that worked with
Herb Adams on their racing program in the early days...Harry
Quackenbush.. great guy with a lot of knowledge
I had Nittos and started with pressures at 38/34 we kept dropping
them until we were at 23/21...Seemed all wrong to me but it worked
Then we went to the Autocross and started tweaking shocks
again 13 or 14 runs and worked up and down getting the car
to turn thru the bump at the big right hander before the finish straight
Finally got the driver (me) to get more aggressive and dropped
over .6 on the second to last run... wish I had a few more at that
time.... but to tell you the truth I was tired.. running for 3 hours at
each event was a lot of seat time
Great day and great people everywhere
I did not run the Track on Sunday as the rear brakes still
do not seem to be working.. need to do some valving
and my gearing is not right yet
9th out of 24 in stop box and 12th out of 24 in autocross (Vintage Class)
not a bad day for an old driver and car that is still progressing
and learning how to dial it in and change things while you are
at the track.. something I have been watching Mike Maier do
for years! Guess that is why he is so fast
They added Vegas the weekend of April 25/26 to their Qualifiers
Bob
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