IT Festival at MO

[JLawton]

To All,

When this venture started the Cincinnati Region did not anticipate that SCCA regional level competition at Mid-Ohio would be as limited as it has become. Thus we didn't think a PDX before our event would evolve into such a hot topic. It is true that DJ probably would not find a PDX format useful ( Lord, knows I've watched him boogie around the track more than once.) BUT for drivers either totally new to the track, haven't been on the new pavement, or just trying out a set-up it will hopefully be a useful experience.
For those of you who have competed at Mid-Ohio before don't rule out becoming an instructor. I'll give out contact information once a Chief Instructor has been named.

P.S. When I read the " Passing in the corners" sentence all I flashed back to Jan Lammers in a Panoz trying to pass Ron Fellows Corvette and making contact at the bottom of Madness. ( Got a nice Panoz nose plate as a souvenir). LOL
Todd
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I would be very happy with a PDX day before (not having been to the track).


I've also been to test days at Lime Rock that were almost the same usefullness as testing at a PDX day. Some of the other racing clubs (don't want to offend anyone) come out with their really expensive cars and act like speed bumps. Yeah, that's great that you have 300 HP, but when I almost rear end you under breaking because your so freakin' slow!!!!

Then at VIR this year before the 13 Hour, they sent cars out in groups of 6!!! That was great!!

[Knestis]

...Then at VIR this year before the 13 Hour, they sent cars out in groups of 6!!! That was great!!
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It did NOT however stop a pair of Miatae from having a metal-to-metal during one session. Imagine that, with 3.25 miles of wide pavement to work with...

You just can't MAKE this kind of thing up.

K

[gran racing]

If the PDX is run well, it will be a huge benefit to the majority of racers. The key will be limiting the number of cars in each run group (not to Jeff's extreme). There are a couple clubs which run HPDEs in the N.E. which do a great job running events. Although the instructor group does not allow passing in the turns, the event is still useful.

It will be interesting to hear how the PDX will be organized: how many groups in total, how many geared towards people racing the next day (hopefully more than one group), max. number of cars allowed on the track in each group, ect.

Gotta say I got a good laugh with the WARS comment. LOL!

[shwah]

Well. Sorry to get your hackles up. It was unintentional. I think we are saying the same thing with different terminology.

[Rabbit07]

A pair of reck-miatas, Never.............

[p99ro]

I did not read that LONG thread but.
I would pay more and Love it to be at the GLEN
Scott
CRX ITA 07 NER

Count me in. :026:

[thedemoguy]

http://itforum.improvedtouring.com/forums/...showtopic=11587

[TAC]

I thought I'd dust off this thread to say thank you for all the support, suggestions and fun. I can't believe Andy started this up in December of '06 ....and here we are. I want to give special thanks Dave Burchfield for the Idea for the I.T. festival, Andy for starting this thread up, and Butch Kummer for all the help. Its' been great fun working with all of you to make this event happen.

Be safe driving to the track.

Best Regards,

Todd Cholmondeley
Cincinnati Race Chair SCCA

[Andy Bettencourt]

I thought I'd dust off this thread to say thank you for all the support, suggestions and fun. I can't believe Andy started this up in December of '06 ....and here we are. I want to give special thanks Dave Burchfield for the Idea for the I.T. festival, Andy for starting this thread up, and Butch Kummer for all the help. Its' been great fun working with all of you to make this event happen.

Be safe driving to the track.

Best Regards,

Todd Cholmondeley
Cincinnati Race Chair SCCA [/b]

This race is going to be awesome. I hope that it continues as an ANNUAL event and I hope other regions schedule around it.

Like I said in another thread, my schedule precludes me from attending this year but as a die-hard Red Sox fan, we all know there is always next year!

It has been fun working with you guys to get this up and running!

[Catch22]

Those are great entry numbers for a first time event!!!
Lets hope the weather co-operates and all goes well.

Hopefully this will become an annual event and sort of a MidWest ARRC (NARRC, PARRC...).
Mid Ohio certainly has the drawing power, and with some contingencies and continued strong competition/participation could make it one of those "must" weekends for regional class type folks.

I love the format too.

[R2 Racing]

Lets hope the weather co-operates and all goes well.[/b]

For August in Ohio, I don't think we could've asked for a much better forecast! Lets hope it stays that way.

Saturday, August 11th - Partly Cloudy, 76°/60°, 20%
Sunday, August 12th - Partly Cloudy, 84°/62°, 20%

[bonespec]

Kevin, with typical Ohio weather we might even have snow next weekend! :snow_cool:

I'll be there early Sunday morning to spectate