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Got a reply from Mid South Region: Not quite the bargain that our region's test-and-tune was, but probably worth testing the pavement and getting warmed up for Saturday and Sunday.

OK, here's something no one thought of. There are five entries in XP for the Blytheville event already. Driver's from other regions. Four of them competed in the national tour events this year, though several in other classes. The four scored 89XX, 92XX, 94XX, and 94XX on index points...

Mike had a pretty good day Sunday. The rest of us were struggling. Gary was having just about as much difficulty as I was, but showing less irritation about it. Mike was in my run group, so I couldn't watch much except for the big grin and hand gestures as he went by in the pits, indicating...

Joe has gotten a LOT faster this year. He was quick last year, but I beat him a couple times. He got new tires this year after borrowing my car last year. He was pointing out how much better the I-Mark stuck down. And that the car would be even quicker if any of us knew how to left foot...

I must be running a comedy of errors. I am guessing I glazed the brake pads at the test-and-tune event. The brake pedal felt like being in a covered wagon rolling down a steep slope, pushing that wooden handle to jam the wooden block against the wooden wheel. Push with all your might and...

I only had enough material to do complete sets of titanium shims for my front calipers. The smaller rear shim I have only two of (need four). The other two have to wait for the next batch, if there is space. Tomorrow I'll do the fronts and bleed them to see if the fluid did actually boil...

It drizzled during setup, but no rain. That was pretty funny with the wipers at Event 8. The left foot braking thing seems to have a couple different uses. Mahen, who runs the A-Mod wing car with the big Hurst written across the wing, talks about always applying a little bit of brake almost as...

I thought here was a thread about this... Guess not. You guys missed some good practice. And there were novices at the event. There was not a lot of testing going on. I expected to see people turning wrenches and getting some of the experts to drive or ride to diagnose things to change. It...

I've thought about doing Pikes Peak and finishing what the factory team (for my little crap box car) started but never followed through on. But it always sounds better after a few drinks than it does without. It might be better now that it is fully paved, but guard rails are scarce and gravity...

We really got the short end on the track conditions, the drizzle seemed to start with the third heat, and the first run looked like it was going to be the only decent one. I was pretty upset by the fourth run, it looked like I was going to be holding up the rear. Somebody gave me a "Oh, you've...

The punch line at the end of this is that Rick happens to be the one who invented the PAX Index system... 2011 Event 4 Fastest Raw Time 43.154 sec Rick in CP - 44.878 sec, ICP 9775 Gary in XP - 47.531 sec, ICP 8948 Mike in XP - 49.025 sec., ICP 8675 2011 Event 5 Fastest Raw Time 42.170 sec...

10.15 Overall Points (Driver’s Championship): Driver’s Championship event points are based on the percentage of the Index winner’s time and all other Index times. The Index winner gets 10,000 points. To determine other overall points, the winner’s time is divided by the other index times and...

Not as frustrating as Event 6, but it would be nice to get above my average and narrow the margin. My number for my clean run calculated out to a 8556 IC. If they had been generous enough to use my quicker, one cone hit run, (like Mike) it would have been a 8709 IC. Mikes IC was 9021! Andy...

The Index numbers show it was a pretty slow event for both of us. 8189 for me. Without the cone penalty it would have been an 8560. I was hoping not to dip below 8600 or 8700 all year long. Definitely not below 8500. If I had managed to match my driving in the third event, I should have...

It looked more like a competition to see who could get a clean run and not hit any cones, than a race. I keep hearing a chorus of "Three Blind Mice" every time I think about it. And I still can't figure out where that cone was called on my last run. Without the cone penalty, it would have...

Any chance it will take six months to get the kinks worked out? (Like my Wile-E-Coyote style upgrades). It looks like my adjustable strut rods are only going to be helpful if I take them off the car and use them as clubs. And I can't us my original air dam / wind deflector. It doesn't fit...

I'm in XP because I have a couple cars that won't fit into any other class, and it's the lowest class that allows stripped interior and no emergency brake (the I-Mark interior was rotted and combination calipers are a pain). The idea was that I could drive any car I own, and still be in the...

Sorry to hear about the family emergency. Makes me feel a little bad about needling you on the telephone Sunday morning, when you declined to drive the little car. It looks like they changed their mind again and are going to count the Event 5 points for class championship, but not the Index...

They managed to pull up a chunk of blacktop, fought about it for a half an hour, then changed the course (and had me re-chalk it), and then started fighting about if they were going to count the event for points or not, which is apparently an ongoing argument even now (Wednesday night after the...

Sunday was the correct day. Apparently someone found a web page that said it was at the Family Arena parking lot, and broke the speed of sound driving over to Gateway. The suspension changes were, in the very least, a step in the right direction from the un-driveable mess of Event #4. Maybe...