IT Results at LRP?

[mossaidis]

Someone must have the IT results from this weekend?

I do somewhere in my office underneath boxes of parts. I will try to dig it up tonight.

[jimalley]

How did you make out with the new setup?

[jimalley]

I do somewhere in my office underneath boxes of parts. I will try to dig it up tonight.

How did you make out??? Details, details

[mossaidis]

Race Group #1 - Race Sat 10am - ITA/7 only though group ran with EP, FP, HP, SSB, SSC and GTL as well

ITA
1 Windell Holmes 1:02.826
2 Shane H. 1:02.775
3 Geoff B. 1:03.316
4 Steven Frederick 1:03.556
5 Tim Klvana 1:04.433

IT7
1 Madison Bolden 1:05.147
2 Norman Latulippe 1:05.349
3 Lou Iannaccone DNS (broken wheel studs and crash in qual race)

[mossaidis]

How did you make out??? Details, details

Hi Jim,

Ups and downs for sure. My heart said "I hope you get a podium or at least a personal best laptime". Reality said "...sort the car and you idiot". Mind you, I have not been on track competitively in over 11 months and I have not at LRP since Oct '09. So, I definitely knew I needed to sort myself out first, hence I double-dipped. I just double checked, my best at LRP is 1.03.619 back in May '09.

The motor pulls like a bandit out of hell - LOVE IT! (thank you Matt Kessler, I bow to the) Tires were so-so, they were 1 years old from NHMS July '10. Suspension was completely different for me: pre-season we removed the front sway bar, stiffened the rear to full (24mm progress) and went from 450 lbs rear spring to 1000 lbs. Same brakes from last year... old rotors and newish DTC-60's.

ITA qual session - mid 1:04's with Lou and I mixing it up for fun. Tranny kept popping out of gear when in 2nd and 3rd and then oil temp spiked to over 250+ degrees. We're still breaking in the motor with dino oil, I get nervous and pit late session. Matt said "eh... you're fine" I qualify 5th in ITA.

STL qual session - low 1:04's (I think) mid-session I'm down on power by 20+whp, check engine light is on and oil temps spike again, I pit mid-session thinking I just blew another motor. Truth: VTEC solenoid wires came loose, problem fixed. Matt said "wtf... check your connections next time". I qualify mid-pack in the group at 18 or something.

ITA qual race - 1:0X.X (I don't remember) though I remember passing cars on the start to Big Bend plus a few others but at some point mid-race speedometer goes nuts on me and eventually dies. ECU goes into limp mode, again 20+whp down, I finished but to fell back to 9th. Speedometer wire came loose off the speedsensor - easy fix and we're good to go again. PS. Windell was FLYING through cars! Good to see him back!

STL qual race - 1:0X.X (I don't remember) this race was the pinnacle of my weekend... seriously. I should have been lined up as 18th... but me and apparently another 4 maitae showed up late to grid. LOL! I started 31st out of 35 or something like that. Passed 10 or so at start and moved to 11th by the end of the race... wow, what a good time! If I pissed anyone off, please let me know!!!! I am guessing I did 1:03's though I need to wait info to get posted on mylaps.com.

ITA race - started 9th, moved up to 6th with Klvana, Frederick and a Prod car in front of me - I was flying! then.... GRINDDDDDD.... no 4th on the downshift to bigbend, no 3rd... no shift at all so no race. I pit and call it a day. Quote of the day, "you drive the wheels off that thing"... what goes around came around, pooh.

STL race - I watched this one from the sideline. (DELETE)

Tranny aside I was getting FASTER! front tires almost gone entirely, so I was driving HARD in the STL qual race and ITA race. I clearly didn't do my research when I built my tranny... I believe the counter shaft bearing pressed into the clutch housing was walking out on me hence it keeps popping out of gear. We're not 100% sure if that was the cause of gear popping AND/OR of the bigger "no shifting" but we'll see. Car is at Matt's where he will be dropping/opening my tranny (i.e. fixing my mistakes), adding an oil cooler, new front rotors, new brake ducts and maybe a new clutch/pressure plate. If all goes well, we'll be at LRP July 1st-2nd with 225/45 R6s. If not, WGI for sure.

We missed you Young Jim Alley. When's your next race?

Mickey

[rhygin]

I ended up at the back with Mickey and had a blast passing cars taht I should be passing. All in, it was a good weekend for me as I got some good work on my racecraft, had soem very close racing, and now know just how far I need to go to get fast-fast at this place.

For me it was great to have some family around on Sat and share the adventure.

As has been detailed on the "other" LRP post, the last group #3 race was a mess... and a mess right from the start. There was no room beign given on the start really at all and I got hit hard enough (square in the back) in the middle of Big Bend that my hands got knocked off the damn wheel. I mean it was hard and I was not expecting it. Some very, very fast hands kept it on the track, but I was pretty pissed. Pretty sure that the person who hit me got collected and was able to finish 1/10th of a lap for his money. Nice job.

The video is the first eight or so laps for the first group #3 race... starting DFL.

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...lime+rock&aq=f

[mossaidis]

The video is the first eight or so laps for the first group #3 race... starting DFL.

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...lime+rock&aq=f

SWEET! Thanks Bradley - good hangin with you as well!

[lawtonglenn]

That was me in the RX-7 you guys were coming up on. I cringed when I looked in my mirror and saw you almost get nailed.

Do you have the next minute or two of that video? I got stuck behind the yellow Golf when it missed west bend and the Ford and BMW went by me. I was not happy. You went by me coming out of the downhill on the last lap.

Here you go.... videos of the entire am and pm ITR/ITS/ITB races:

http://vimeo.com/lawtonglenn

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[benspeed]

Awesome drive - Tyler had a code brown on that one!

I have the same video setup - what file format and resolution are you saving at?

[Drew M]

Here you go.... videos of the entire am and pm ITR/ITS/ITB races:

http://vimeo.com/lawtonglenn

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Thanks Glenn!!