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  1. Huge thanks to everyone for dealing with a somewhat challenging day with grace and kindness, all the Chiefs rocked it and all the drivers/workers did their part as well to put on a great day of racing!! Here's my 44.747, 3rd run Group B still pretty damp. Super fun course...
    8 points
  2. Hey Everyone, Judah was working hard this week on pics at the track. We have a few thousand pics to go through and scrub the blurry stuff out of. Hopefully, by the end of the week, I'll post up a Dropbox link. Some track and pit shots are to be included. The sunrise colors on Sunday were pretty spectacular. Here are a few he got of my car. Judah is getting better and even had his first paid photo shoot recently. The roller was from that shoot. He is working on saving for more photo gear and is willing to do a shoot for $50 if anyone is interested.
    8 points
  3. The Phoenix AZ Solo Region winds down their Spring 2023 series this Saturday April 15th with some very close competition for championships in several classes. Here’s a look at some of the tighter battles. Novice class had 36 drivers compete in the series and it’s come down to 2 for the title, David Alter with 2869 points sits in 1st and Ronald Herren right behind with 2846 points. The Sportsman class of all the top drivers of the Region is very tight with 21 drivers total and 9 drivers with at least 3 events under their belts. Jason Bucki 2971, Matt Underhill 2962, Bruce Hansen 2925, Brian Peters 2916, Ron Bistrais 2916, Jay Balducci 2882, David Webb 2877, Dave Bahl 2798, Scott Urich 2780 All but Bruce are entered in this last event, so look for some tight racing in this class on Saturday. CAM-C has 2 drivers in a battle for first, Trevor Drake 2818 and Patrick Sullivan right behind with 2790. Our largest and closest battled class is CAM-T with 15 drivers having at least 3 events under their belts by the end of Saturday. Lance Hamilton 2938, Mike Hitt 2931, Mat Leon 2879, Chris Hall 2854, Michael Jakubowski 2775, Juan Leal 2770, Erik Gagnon 2710, Donny Lofstrom 2687, Sean Fowler 2685, Amanda Hitt 2649, James Wolter 2543 Most of these drivers are running in Group B on Saturday, look for a lot of math to be done in between runs for drivers to see where they currently stand. DS is another well attended class with 6 drivers having at least 3 events in. Morgan Lee has a strong hold on first with 3,000 points, but will be missing this event. Steve Ashcraft is in 2nd with 2834 points but will likely also miss this event. Tanner Nolen is in 3rd with 2812, Chris Simons 2789, Mat Penny 2754, and Danielle Simons 2644 points. Drops will likely determine the final finishing order in this class. FS has 3 drivers in the hunt, Craig Borger 2989, James Harris 2931 and Dan Hawrylkiw with 1996 in just 2 events. This one will be tight once Dan gets his 3rd event in Saturday. STS has 3 drivers in the hunt as well, Brent McCune 2978, Jorge Rios 2927 and Kevin Rasmussen 2919. And lastly XP, John Harvell leasd with 2965 and is right behind with Jason Jarvie 2952. Good luck to all of the drivers in each of your classes and thanks to all for supporting our spring series so well. https://www.azsolo.com/results/
    8 points
  4. TO Run - 40.574 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF4HDQmmKHs&ab_channel=vexcivil
    7 points
  5. Congratulations Kevin and all the leadership of Phoenix AZ Solo on winning the SCCA Region of the Year Award for medium-sized clubs! Well deserved, thanks for all you do for this great club!
    7 points
  6. Haven’t gotten around to day 1 video yet but here’s my best run from day 2:
    6 points
  7. I'm starting to get a handle on my new GoPro Hero 10, the over exposure issue is fixed. Still can't seem to get my tablet to overlay my Solostorm data on the videos from the new camera though. That said, here was my first run of the day Sunday which was also my fastest with a 49.423. LOVE the new Bridgestone RE71RSs...this car hasn't driven like this in over 3 years. Now I just have to get back to trusting it once again to not push.
    6 points
  8. Great Event as always, aside from the temps. Whew. The boys and I did get a few good pictures, some track pics, and some of the event. I decided to include all the pics this time, even some from the neighboring motorcycle event. We were testing out a new prime lens on the Sony so some of the shots are zoomed out pretty far. I'm asking the same thing as last time. If you like a pic head over to my Youtube channel and like a video as a thanks. @DrivingForwardBuilds 10/15/23 Event Photos Here was one of the good ones.
    6 points
  9. We were out taking a bunch of pictures at the event. We don't know what we're doing but trying as part of our Homeschool routine. We wound up with a few good shots from each run group A-D and a few shots around the paddock. Feel free to download and use them as you wish. All I ask is if you like a pic hit my YouTube channel and drop a "like" on any video, it really helps. If you're feeling especially kind, a comment is awesome too. @DrivingForwardBuilds I should have my run video out this week sometime as well. If you don't see any of your car in the pictures, let me know. We have 725 we took! This folder is just the ones we thought turned out ok. My Boys wound up taking most of them. 🙂 This was one of our favorite shots by my older son, JJ. Link to Pictures...
    6 points
  10. Thanks again to the team. This was another great event. I can't wait to see everybody's summer updates in the fall.
    6 points
  11. Results from the 04/15/2023 event have been posted to the results page. Please post any corrections or questions here. Also, results for the Spring 2023 series have been updated. Please let me know if you spot any issues!
    6 points
  12. Day 1: youtube Day 2: youtube
    5 points
  13. Here is the course for 3-9-24. As always the course maybe modified at the time of set up for safety, visibility and flow reasons. PASR at AMP 3-9-24 Champions (wog).pdf
    5 points
  14. For your reading pleasure, Brian Miller's Pylon Press covering the Feb event and the PASR National Tour event. Pylon Press -- Feb 2024 --with rewrites.pdf Enjoy the read! Kim
    5 points
  15. Post up your videos from Sundays event!
    5 points
  16. I may have a solution if anyone is interested! So I recently purchased tire equipment (Mounter and Balancer). I am out in Gilbert if anyone wants to bring some work by. $50+a six pack of your choosing that you have to help me drink! Couple rules though... This is just me at home. I have done my wheels without scratches many times but I cant warranty anything so if you are scared of scratches or scuffs, probably best to continue using your existing shop. TPMS... I would prefer to do wheels without these just for the risk of breaking them. I have successfully mounted with sensors several times, but once again, this is just an at home thing. Lastly, if I cant get a bead to seat or a tire mounted or whatever, no charge, I'll give everything back except the drinks that have been drank. Feel free to shoot me a message here or a txt - 615-504-2538 -Hayden
    5 points
  17. SCCA has announced their 2024 National Tour schedule and I'm excited to share that it includes a stop in Phoenix at AMP February 23-25: https://www.scca.com/articles/2018013-get-ready-2024-national-solo-schedules-announced If you've never done a National Tour this your chance to attend one locally.
    5 points
  18. There will be more official announcements coming shortly but I wanted you all to save the dates for now. Check them out here. https://www.motorsportreg.com/orgs/scca/phoenix-az-solo
    5 points
  19. Had a lot of fun on Friday, thanks to everyone that helped make such a special event happen. Thanks also to John for forcing me to drive the Corvette and also Dave for loaning the GoPro. Brake issues to be addressed soon... https://youtu.be/Z20qLrV9tAk?si=541mRg3PJ1RInjXe
    5 points
  20. Here was my 125.6xx run. Still a ton of time left out there, needed about 3 more cracks at it to nail it down. SO much fun!!
    5 points
  21. I think Ben's reply comes from a long grueling weekend of a handful of volunteers busting their arse to make sure the rest of us have a good time. Many MANY of us went above and beyond this weekend and overall there was a great result behind it. Don't let that hide that fact that we are tired and we have yet another event to put on in very short order this Friday. If we do not get more volunteers to step up, you are going to see some of the regular VOLUNTEERS drop...then instead of worrying about details like above, you'll be worrying about who is going to get everyone registered, teched, waivered, gridded, started, not too mention having a course to run on at all. One does not need experience to volunteer, one just needs a willingness. We'll teach you the rest. Thanks, Lance
    5 points
  22. Almost every other region and club in the country requires numbers. Static cling, magnet, vinyl, painter's tape, paper. This isn't some unreasonable requirement. Also to your other point about numbers being hard to read from the tent... that's not the point. The point is for corner radio workers to be able to see the number and call the cone by number rather than "gray miata - no the other gray miata".
    5 points
  23. Here's my group B run in the STR Miata. 50.4 https://youtu.be/GamKptPPKM4?si=LTmf9O4QtQ4N0nu5
    5 points
  24. Just like to say thank you to all the workers that helped push the car off course yesterday. Also a big thank you to Tim B., Kevin V., Ben Z. for getting the car on the Trailer safely. Thankfully no one got hurt and the car can be fixed. I got very lucky that it wasn't worse. Got video of the disaster which was pretty comical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgJc0m1TTJA&ab_channel=vexcivil
    5 points
  25. That was an interesting course, and I wish I had signed up for TO's! There were many quick sections, but used the skidpad well for a longer course. It at least seemed longer. I've been working on pushing my comfort level, staying on the gas longer and braking later, but I need to work on smoothing out that gas -> brake transition. For the first time, I triggered the assisted panic brake "safety" feature... during my 3rd (other video below) and 4th runs, both of which caused me to take out cones. I had previously read many stories of other RS owners (I'm not sure if ST's are similarly affected) encountering it while autocrossing or at the track. Even though I was off the brakes and back on the gas so I could power around the corner, the car thought it would be better to keep the brakes locked up and ignore driver inputs. This nanny can't be disabled or defeated, so I'll need more seat time next season to find the limits of when it engages and how to avoid it. Run #2, my fastest clean run (48.681): Run #3:
    5 points
  26. Thought I would upload some favorites from the event. Had some camera issues due to not having used my old DSLR in 12 years... big surprise. Hope you like these... had to shrink the size due to my poor data connection upload speeds. Will try again today on Day2... hope camera (&me) operate correctly LOL.
    4 points
  27. Only had camera for day 2, here's my 2nd run. https://youtu.be/M0dQIjhj6vo?si=JuAKjVO-1Ddfahun
    4 points
  28. Day 1. I had the shakes after this run. Been a long time since that happened.
    4 points
  29. Kevin - Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d3ok1Qefpk&ab_channel=vexcivil Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpzC_IWL1KQ&ab_channel=vexcivil Stephen - Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUJNmC2ecPA&ab_channel=vexcivil Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPCSgyEsW6Q&ab_channel=vexcivil
    4 points
  30. Had a great day Saturday on a fun course, and really enjoyed the challenge of the weather and working on adapting to the evolving course condition during B group. Big thanks to Lance for getting me off the wait list on Friday so I could join the fun! Comp - 44.376 TO - 43.563
    4 points
  31. It's Boost Season PASR Doesn't disappoint MLK day Special AutoX on the road course OMG so much fun..😲 lol .. My best run 120.3## https://youtu.be/Sak5khYQgj8?si=EDA-y6d3n-H9IdSr
    4 points
  32. Here are the pictures from Sunday's autocross. Judah only took pictures of run group A and F this time. AutoX on the track coming up next. Sunday's Pictures.
    4 points
  33. Here's my 121.924 I ran in the AM session. I tried something different Monday which seemed to work pretty well for me. I got to 3rd gear as quickly as I could and left it there the whole lap. I found the upshifting and downshifting was more of an upset to my car than a help, it pulled out of the corners well enough in 3rd and not worrying about clutching and shifting let me left foot brake and concentrate on line and maximum grip more. Anyway, enjoyed the day immensely hope you all did as well.
    4 points
  34. 43.525 in the little pink Miata
    4 points
  35. Amanda put together a quick video of our best runs from Friday. https://youtu.be/s8CTYxG1apU?si=7oVs-GDnxjiJXe19
    4 points
  36. That was Awesome👍great event guys hope we do more of these .. So much fun 😃 ..🤌🙌 Everyone did a great job chasing cones wow and the Ridgeline what a recovery truck Good times...lol Thanks
    4 points
  37. Leeann and I wanted to say thank you to everyone that helped clean up the mess on and off the track after her little coolant spill. Also we wanted to say sorry! I promise it was a new hose that just burst! All seems good with the car and should be back together once the replacement hose arrives.
    4 points
  38. What an interesting course this was. I was totally expecting to run much slower but much to my surprise it was such a fast course. Thanks again to the team that makes this possible. We were taking pictures again and working on technique. The sun was sure making it difficult though. Shooting pictures from the outside of the track is limited as well, those darn bushes are too tall around the fence. You'll see when Judah (my 12-year-old son) was shooting some of them the fence made it into the foreground. He is trying to start a YouTube channel and would appreciate it if you like the pictures to hit the "like button" on some of his videos to show your support! He started a tech/editing/photography channel as part of his homeschool extracurricular activities. Check him out at https://www.youtube.com/@JWolfTechTV Here are the pictures. We didn't get any of run group C or time only. Here is my best run of the day.
    4 points
  39. Earlier this year my cousin and his friend came out for a race day. They produced a professional video of the event and some of the background. Although they did mainly want to focus on M-T Pockets (me) they did a great job making it about the sport as well. I’m sure more than a few of you were wondering what ever happened with the film crew that showed up. It just posted to their YouTube channel and I wanted to share it with everyone. Enjoy
    4 points
  40. Ivan M took some great photos at the last event. He gave me the go ahead to share the link here! https://lightroom.adobe.com/shares/0a3ceb3827ca49f69716e114823cf554
    4 points
  41. Results from the 10/15/2023 event have been posted to the results page. Please post any corrections or questions here.
    4 points
  42. Finally have my video ready. Was fighting a copyright strike all week. Lol.
    4 points
  43. Disagree with this not being feasible for a local region. San Diego region had a successful system for this where you registered your regional competition number annually (with a fee to have your Solo Card and ownership of that number). The SCCA magazine (which we should all be receiving with our memberships) has advertisements in the back for multiple vendors supplying numbers that fill this need. If people are spending $1000/year on tires, it's not a huge ask to improve the running of the event to have somebody spend $60 on numbers. Roll the annual number registration in with annual tech. For newer entrants, temporary 4 digit numbers were assigned and the paper + painters tape method was required. Eventually, they decide that they want to "look the part" at the events and buy numbers as well. This seems to come up every few years, and I haven't understood the pushback to improvement, other than just being resistant to change.
    4 points
  44. For a while registration assigned "Corner Captains" who were more experienced racers and were in charge of the radio and cone calls for each station per run Group as a way to clean up the radio chatter and more accurately report cone calls. I personally liked the idea but there was pushback so eventually we stopped that practice. Maybe time to rethink that? We've also extensively discussed going to large #s on cars in the past and once the details of what all would have to be changed with our systems to accomplish this, the decision was made by the steering committee to not go that direction. One may think it is simple fix for one issue, but in reality it changes just about everything we do with our registration and timing & scoring systems and then on top of that requires everyone to now put tape or magnetic #s on their cars every event...correctly. In my opinion, the current system works very well for us. We just need to be better and course work, clean up the radio chatter and remind people to stay away from timing and scoring area.
    4 points
  45. Just need the rear tires and we are going testing! 8 1/2 years in a barn, found, rebuilt and now back to life!!!!
    4 points
  46. Car is back in one piece. Had to miss the Crows Landing Tour but we made the Pro. Got a nice badge of honor on the side.
    4 points
  47. Had a lot of fun on this course, but never quite felt like I figured out the longer double element corners that would've had me making a smoother single steering input instead a bunch of smaller bites. I definitely had trouble sighting my way into the last right and confidently setting my entry trajectory with the brakes. I got a bit frustrated and really hit a wall at the mid 50s. I ran, in sequence, 50.63, 50.50, 50.90 (first TO, cooler tires), 50.60, 50.55, 50.58, so it's too bad we weren't doing bracket racing. Other than that, I'm not disappointed to be done with these 2018 BFGs, and hope to start getting actual feedback and pace from the tires again in the fall. Fast comp is shared below, and decided to post my more entertaining 4th TO run that's a bit slower than my 3rd. There may have been a low 50 there if I'd cleaned up a few mistakes.
    4 points
  48. Here is the course for April 15. As always course may change due to safely, flow and visibility. PASR April 2023 Grand Prix.pdf
    4 points
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