I has been awhile since I posted videos. It has been a busy season running with clubs all over the north west. I also ran the SCCA Solo Championship tour event in Packwood, WA in July. That event was proof that my GT is now seriously outgunned in F Street class after SCCA in their infinite wisdom move some really fast cars from B Street into F Street just before this year's Solo season began. Those cars included the Mustang GT PP2, the Camaro SS 1LE, the Shelby GT 350 and the new Mach 1 Mustang. The Nationals in Lincoln, NW were held about 3 weeks ago and sure enough, the Mach 1 took top honors in FS. Anyway, on to this last weekend. I ran the SSCC Fall Enduro again. I always wanted to run that event with a car capable of a record run to see how I would do against top drivers that have run the event. In practice last year I was running record setting pace. Then, Sunday around noon it started to rain. By the time I ran the track was flooded in places. I came home with a class first place, yet, no chance of a record. I went back this year hoping for good weather as was forecast. Saturday I was running even quicker than the previous year. I'm sure that had to do with the 10R80 10 speed in the newer GT. I registered for this event 1/2 hour after it opened up on Motorsport.reg so that I had the best chance of getting the practice session and run group times I wanted. I picked the 1:00-4:30 Saturday practice session in order to run on a warm track and have time to recover from the 4.5 hour towing drive down to the track. I picked the 11:20-12:30 run group time slot in order for the track to be dry and warm, yet, not hot. I've been to this event when afternoon temps were 100+ degrees. The forecast was for 75 degree daytime highs both days. We actually got 90 degree temps both days. That meant tire temps were going to be a problem for me. I'm on Advan A052s. They are fast right out of the gate, yet, heat up quickly. Even in a normal Autocross event competitors have to cool them down between runs after 2-3 50 second runs. I played with that at the Porsche Club event the weekend before heading to this event and it definitely makes a difference. The tires for this event in street class were the Falken RT660 or the new Bridgestone RE-71RS. Both of those tires were faster each lap on fellow competitors cars. They aren't as quick the first run of a typical Autocross, however, they catch up by the 2nd-3rd run and hold up to the heat much better. So, my run. First lap to fifth lap. 51.007, 50.880, 51.211, 51.457, 51.677 for a total of 4 minutes, 16.232 seconds. Fast enough to set a new track record for F Street. The previous record was 4 minutes 16.793 seconds. .561 second difference. Here is one of my practice runs Saturday when I had a fellow competitor riding along so I could show her the line she should be driving. Also, the record setting run. You only get one attempt. No mistakes. Dance on the edge of the razor blade, don't fall off.
Saturday practice.
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Sunday's trophy run.
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