So, how was event 2?
Congratulations on moving up the pax list a little. Were you able to keep the rear in check?
Everyone asked where Mike was and expressed concern and sympathy when I explained.
I am having a very bad start to the year considering that I have gotten rid of the cold pavement spin problem. The "little" part is really concerning given I feel like I am driving the wheels off the thing. I got Andy to give me a few sentences of advice, and he seems to believe that I can drive decent every once in a while, but the rest of the time I am over thinking it. The key seems to be something like being just conscious enough to look ahead, but operating the vehicle subconsciously.
Sunday's lesson seemed to be finding the braking zone. And going fast where you need to be going fast, but not fast where that is too much.
The main part of the course was very similar to last year, go south on the arena side of the lot up the little hill through a section of offsets that end at the crest, make an insane right turn, accelerate toward a 270 degree turn back, wallum back up the trail side of the lot to the finish. But what would normally be the 270 degree decreasing radius sweeping turn had a big flat spot straight away in the middle of it because of cars parked along the edge of the lot.
My problem was staying on the throttle all the way up to the last second going south through the offsets before cresting hill into the blind insane right hand turn. Not enough courage and I kept misreading the little bridge for the apex cone. If I just stood on it through the offsets, I knock them all down. A couple times I got into the 270 degree turn too hot and knocked out the outside cones on the flat spot.
I felt like I was running wide but OK through the rest and was running the wallums at the end in third gear. Joe said he was doing 70 MPH at the finish.
