School's Out Regional - LRP

[Jeremy Billiel]

I will be there instructing as well so I am going to appoligize to the students in advance. LOL...

I believe Dave needs to stay back for more seat time.

[gran racing]

I received a waiver so I already have my license.

[JLawton]

I will be there instructing as well

Good thing you've read a lot of books on it!!



Are they short of instructors for tomorrow? :eek:

[Jeremy Billiel]

Good thing you've read a lot of books on it!!



Are they short of instructors for tomorrow? :eek:

Not nice Jeffy... I will remember that next time you want some help!

[lateapex911]

Good thing you've read a lot of books on it!!



Are they short of instructors for tomorrow? :eek:

Jeff, please send your remittance for a new wireless keyboard after I spewed lemonaide on mine after reading that.


See you at the track.

[Andy Bettencourt]

I will be there instructing...

Is it April Fools Day? Huh? What? HA!

[Jeremy Billiel]

Is it April Fools Day? Huh? What? HA!

Don't blame me, blame Patullo who talked me into helping...

[rthiele]

Forecast for Lime Rock, CT:

Wednesday in Lime Rock, CT: Rain. Heavy at times. Followed by periods of precipitation.

Thursday: Lingering showers throughout the day. Chance of rain 800 percent.

Friday: Moist. Damp. Sodden.

Saturday: Rainish. Showery. Precipitacious.

Sunday: Light rain followed by heavy rain followed by pouring.

Monday: Unseasonably rainy in the morning. Uncharitably rainy in the afternoon. Unconscionably rainy in the evening.

Tuesday: Endless showers broken up by occasional flooding.

Wednesday: Remember ''Waterworld''? Like that, only with more rain.

Thursday: Not sunny. The opposite of sunny. Just forget about sunny, O.K.?

Friday: Clearing just long enough for you to make weekend plans. Followed by obscene amounts of rain.

Saturday: Take a wild guess.

Sunday: Incessant, spirit-crushing rain. The kind of rain that makes it futile to get out of bed in the morning. The kind of rain that seems as if it will never end. And guess what? It never will. Ever. Do you understand?

Monday: Please go away.

Tuesday: Ample, brilliant sunshine throughout the day. Wait -- did I say sunshine? I meant rain. Really hard rain.

[lateapex911]

Don't blame me, blame Patullo who talked me into helping...

PAtullo's always the scapegoat...c'mon, you can do better Jeremy!

[raffaelli]

Been here at LRP all day. The place under friggin water. But I got my stuff all sorted out.

I like driving in the rain.

By the way, $240 bought me 2 hours of track time today with the CT Autocross club. They were undersubscribed so for the most part, the track was clear.

[BruceG]

Many thanks to all the great IT7 guys, other drivers and SCCA workers for making my opening debut a great experience. we learned alot along the way(like not arriving with a freshly repainted car, having to put on all numbers,stickers,etc and still having to go thru tech inspection!!).

Unfortunately, I drove all but 2 laps of qualifying and all the race with no clutch!!!! got into third and had to drive both events that way. Hope I didn't hold anyone up too much(I watched my mirrors constantly) and tried to let people thru. I had a spin past turn 2 to the outside and it took several minutes to restart the engine).

I don't know about anyone else but my spin wasn't caused by lack of traction. I had no heater core or defroster vents and no vision. Coming down the front straight with the spray from cars in front, turn one was just a mystery in front of me!

We'll be back shortly with a new master and slave clutch cyl and a better prepared car...but again, THANKS TO A GREAT GROUP OF FELLOW RACERS AND WORKERS!!

ps....STARTED AT EQUIPMENT INSPECTION WITH YOU, DICK P.

[dickita15]

The school was interesting as the closed wheel group had more diversity in both driver experience and car speed than most recent schools. There was enough going on that most of the flag drills did not have to be staged.
When the hood blew off the HP car it hit the pedestrian bridge on the front straight. While I was asking one student about the school she said when she saw the hood her first thought was “wow, they dropped something from the bridge to see how we would react.” We do work hard to expose students to all kind of situations but we never thought of trying that.

[Seabee]

Tire choice was difficult as stated. For me it was the first time on the Hoosier wets so I was on a learning curve as they work far better than I was.

My other issue was traffic in terms of catching them at the bad spots and losing time.

Max and I split a Ford Fiesta on No Name and he won the drag race to the uphill.

Overall no on-track issues that I noticed and it has been a pleasure running with IT.

[Andy Bettencourt]

Happy to have gotten the win for sure. Not much of a gamble in my mind for the wets. With the 8-car FV run-group in front of us and a fairly constant drizzle at the 7-laps to go mark, I was confident that my R6's would not be heating up enough to generate grip because there was really no dry line...even the track announcer was watching the conditions deteriorate. I can't remember the last time I went out on wets thinking that dries were better but I can remember a ton of times going out on dries thinking wets would have been the choice.

Brian Blizzard in the Golf did a great job - Steve in the Miata and Max L. in the 240 (all on rains) drove well. Goal - don't get stuck!!!

Give Jeff and Jake some rains, add Joe and Timmah and it would have been an awesome nose to tail race.

Finally figuiring out the new set-up for the new pavement...happy to qualify a tenth under the record. Cool air, some better driving and some Goodyears could have a 1:00.9xx in ITA soon. Heck - if a 1:02.xx is possible in an ITB Volvo...........

Thanks to all. Sorry to see Dave Gran has some gremlins hit.