Flying Turd in St Paul MN

[jeff s]

After day two at Car Craft RSE, the Schwartz Vega is now leading the autocross by .01, and tied for 1st in the lauch box, I have to hit the dyno by 11am tomorrow, gonna open the bottle and hope for the best.

The primary competition is my friend Randy Johnson of D & Z Customs, who won this event with his Schwartz Chassis equipped 66 Chevelle in 2008.
He's running a 2nd gen Camaro with Heidts stuff and IRS with a supercharged LS, he put down 604 hp to the wheels today and is leading that category.
There's also a real fast blue 69 Chevelle, top 3 cars are are less than 3 tenths of a second apart.

[jon72vega]

I follow the F/T Schwartz Vega cause I love what Jeff has done with this one.
Here's a pic of The F/T Schwartz Vega from Day 1, harvested from Car Craft's website:

[frankenstang]

Randy's Camaro came out swinging today and just nudged the Vega out of top spot in the autocross.

2nd place for the Flying Turd, not bad.

[Josh69]

That was awesome to watch on Sunday, the Vega and the Camaro were really moving! Congrats guys on your achievements!

I could hear Randy's Camaro tearing it up all the way up at the main stage!

[66LS7]

First of all I'd like to thank Jeff for putting up a great fight. The last thing you want to do is go into a compitition & have no compitition! Jeff did a great job driving the Vega (which is no slouch). I also would like to thank the crowd that gathered around to cheer us on, that was great & really gets you pumped up.

Randy, it was an honor to compete against someone so friendly and competitive at the same time. If we had to lose, I'm glad it was to you!



Oh and jon72vega, that picture you harvested is of me driving LOL. That was my first EVER autocross run and I used a little too much throttle coming out of the first turn and looped it. I came back in my second run and ran a 44.400. Not too bad for never having auto-crossed before!

The little Vega seems like it would be fun to drift, if we ever got into that stuff too!

[Derek69SS]

Originally Posted by jeff s

There's also a real fast blue 68 Chevelle, top 3 cars are are less than 3 tenths of a second apart.

It's a '69

It was fun competing against and hanging out with you guys!

[Tom Fuehrer]

How did you guys like the AX course this year? I'm part of the club that stages the event and we have struggled with using the space allowed for the AX for the best possible course. Looking at the times it appears the course was longer than last year, hopefully it was more popular.

I wasn't at the CC event last weekend. I attended the vintage car races at Road America (The KIC). Coincidentally, The Temptress was there with (I presume) Jeff's son.

I was at RA doing some reconnaissance on First Gen Camaro Road Race cars. I've started my Vintage Racing '69 Camaro project and needed to see first-hand what guys are doing.

[HAULNSS]

Originally Posted by Tom Fuehrer

How did you guys like the AX course this year? I'm part of the club that stages the event and we have struggled with using the space allowed for the AX for the best possible course. Looking at the times it appears the course was longer than last year, hopefully it was more popular.

Tom,
All the chatter I heard was very positive. I never made it down to the course as the line and the heat was a little more than I wanted to deal with.

For a lot of the guys, it was the highlight of the weekend. Hopefully, they can continue with a similar set up next year.

Randy

[Derek69SS]

The course was great for its size! It was a much "easier" course than I'm used to doing at SCCA events, but that is to be expected where most of the participants are novices. The space was about double last year's but there was a return area so you'd basically do 2 laps, making it almost 4X the length of last year's course.