Another Sunday, another great day of autocrossing!
Yesterday marked the 2nd monthly CalClub autocross and my first time making it out. We had 7 CAM cars show up
CAM C - Matt A. in his late model mustang that he calls "the rental car."
CAM S - Jane T. in her 64 Corvette (Scarlet)
CAM S - Greg T. in his 65 Corvette (Scar)
CAM T - Efrain D. in his 69 Camaro
CAM T - Ron M. in his 69 Camaro (making his SCCA debut!)
CAM T - Kevin R. in his 65 Chevelle
CAM T - Myself in the 68 Camaro
The weather was beautiful low 80's SoCal day, perfect for autocrossing.
The course yesterday was HUGE (times of almost a minute and a half)! The 2nd biggest course I've done and one of the big reasons I love going to the SoCal SCCA events. Both the CalClub region and San Diego region consistently create one minute plus courses with a lot of variety.
With such a long course DNF's were in vogue, though I think at least one or two of them were bad calls but everyone ran their best time without a DNF so it was all good.
In CAMT Efrain came out of the gate swinging and jumped into the lead in the first set of runs and kept that position for the first 3 of 4 competition runs. It wasn't until the 4th run that I managed to leapfrog him into 1st. In CAMS, Greg ran the fastest time of any of the CAM cars during the competition runs. Everyone loved Greg's car, including the announcer. Matt was up against another late model Mustang in CAM C who was on the RE71 tires and ultimately Matt wasn't able to catch him.
Here are the Official Results for the CAM cars as well as the X-runs that we did later.
And here is a video of my 77.8 second x-run.
And one final pic Ron took in the hot pits.
Thanks everyone for coming out! Hopefully, I see you again plus some of the other local autocrossers at future CalClub events.
PS. this is the same lot the CAM Challenge will be held in April so as you can see the courses possible in this lot are awesome!
Another month and another fun SCCA outing coming up. This Sunday is the first El Toro event of 2016 with Cal Club. El Toro is not only a fantastic location because it is close but the large size allows from some amazing courses and the concrete offers tremendous grip!
Lets get some more CAM T guys to sign up and come out for some friendly competition!
The next two weekends have SCCA autocross in Fontana!
This weekend (4/23-24) is the next monthly CalClub autocross and because it is competing with a national event the attendance is low. You can still get in on practice Saturday and 4 competition runs Sunday should be a shoe in. This is also another chance to practice on the same lot and surface as the CAM event the following weekend. I will be there both Saturday and Sunday.
The following weekend (4/30-5/1) is the California CAM challenge. As of this posting we have 48 CAM cars registered with the splits between CAM T/S/C being fairly even so each class is going to have some great competition! I'll also be at this event and am helping volunteer too. If you don't have a CAM eligible car you can still come out and run the same number of runs at a discounted price in exchange for helping with an extra work assignment on Sunday.
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Short clips: Goodguys Pleasanton autocross and pit videos
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