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Beach Cruiser · #1 07-21-2015, 12:53 PM

Link #1 shows Mike Skeen in a Factory VW Golf GT7 R, but the main footage is my car! Link #2 is from inside my car the same lap! pretty cool. He was going all out, I was just coming out of the pits warming up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...xE&app=desktop

https://www.facebook.com/mills.robin...r&notif_t=like

Chad-1stGen · #2 07-21-2015, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Beach Cruiser

Link #1 shows Mike Skeen in a Factory VW Golf GT7 R, but the main footage is my car! Link #2 is from inside my car the same lap! pretty cool. He was going all out, I was just coming out of the pits warming up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...xE&app=desktop

https://www.facebook.com/mills.robin...r&notif_t=like

The second video isn't visible. Probably only available to friends on facebook or group members.

Beach Cruiser · #3 07-22-2015, 08:03 AM

yeah, that's probally the reason. I'll get it up on you tube soon, I'm crazy busy getting the car ready to go to Charlotte.

**waynieZ** · #4 07-22-2015, 08:18 AM

Its like the car chase from Bullitt always coming up in the mirror then it changes to Vanishing Point. Out of sight ! Nice!!

Beach Cruiser · #5 07-22-2015, 09:09 AM

I'll work on getting my in car up on youtube so you can see it. Its actually funny, Skeen is up there fighting for every bit out of that car, I'm hanging behind him, scratching my nose, adjusting the mirror, leisurely shifting just riding along.

Oil cooler, its 11x7 mounted in front of the radiator. most of the front of the car is blocked off so the air can only go through the cooler and radiator or the brake ducts. even as hot as it was this weekend, I didn't see anything over 220-230.

Justin@EntropyRad · #6 07-23-2015, 09:17 AM

Mike is fast in anything you put him in! Except his buddy Sam's boat, as he isn't behind the wheel...LOL

Beach Cruiser · #7 07-27-2015, 05:54 PM

Ok, so the results for Optima Challenge are in, I finished 10th overall in the GTV group. Now I know where my weak points are and I'll try and fix them for next year. Here is where I finished in each category in the GTV class which had 29 entries.

Speed Stop: 9th
Autocross: 15th
Hot Laps: 6th
Design: next to last
Road Rally: 1st (like everyone else)

I had a hard time with the autoX because it was just too tight for my car, plus I ran it in the afternoon when it was really hot! I was in the "odd" group along with Kyle Tucker, Chris Porter and Dan Howe. We were the only ones in the afternoon group to score in the top 25 in the autoX, meanwhile the afternoon group in the speed stop, had plenty of rubber that we left them to help stop. Zmax had stripped the track and the morning group had virgin track to accelerate on and stop.

I'm pretty stoked that I ran with the best of the best on the Road Course on tires I have no experience on, and came away with 6th place! I could run with all of them in the infield, but just didn't have the HP to keep up on the oval part.

Big thanks to Improved Racing for all the parts to keep my oil in check and my Temps in order on a really hot weekend! I'll be spoon feeding all you guys with pics and video as I get them put together.

My big takeaway, Is that a car that you design, engineer and build all by yourself doesn't have any merit in the corporate world we live in...

No more excuses, watch out next year!