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Really nice production on your video, Jason - loved hearing the celebration at the end! Great footage of the cars in paddock too. This was my best TO run (43.257s) - tried my best to make our police officer friend Brian car sick while riding shotgun 😁

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...

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.

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/

Great course this weekend. It was very challenging in my beast. We set a goal to try and get into the 49 second range and made it on our last TO run. We were pretty excited. Can’t wait for January.

My best TO run (39.683) - https://youtu.be/nb_FCvLg8Gs?si=Jp0Zy18QWE56Fv_p

TO Run - 40.574 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF4HDQmmKHs&ab_channel=vexcivil

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!

Great Event everyone. I felt like the whole thing ran great even given the wacky nature of cones and the rain. Looking forward to the next one!

Great Vids! Thanks to everyone who helped put the event on, this was my first event participating. Great track layout and really enjoyed it! Sorry if I forget anyone's name who I met I'm horrible with names. I was running group A and working Group C but I managed to grab some photos of Group B. I'll upload a link to the gallery on my website for viewing and then a link for anyone who wants to download the photos. I'll be updating it as I get through the photos, I took a ton so taking my time a bit. Thanks again for the great event and cant wait for January. Photo Gallery: https://az41media.pixieset.com/phxazsolodec11thgroupbpics/ Photo Download: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12DVOWmEEgFq6ipE60zx65gf-oSDCPVDE?usp=sharing Edit: Forgot to share my best lap too - Old gopro so footage isn't the best.

Files are now all uploaded! The new camera body is amazing, resolution and detail are superb but file size is 30mgb+ per image sometimes! Two changes, I can no longer do the free image (13 hours of work plus gas and food adds up), but...If you buy any images I will send you a free one! Second If you buy 5 images or more I will discount the rate to $10 each but you need to contact me so I can set the gallery up, smugmug has not got this feature unlike other platforms. I have added file numbers to all the images this time around for identification. I can also offer high quality prints and prints on metal, ask me for details. Hope to have a sample table set up at the next round. Morning Session Images Afternoon Session Images If anyone has any issues please reach out phil@veitchcreative.com

- Scott

Don Sattler - CSP Comp Run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfjGR_PgxlM&ab_channel=vexcivil Stephen - CSP TO Run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zHASDzs0Jk&ab_channel=vexcivil

Here is my best TO run of 42.630. This is my first time with SoloStorm, data, and usable video. It is a little eye-opening. I make a lot more errors than I thought.

Haven’t gotten around to day 1 video yet but here’s my best run from day 2:

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.

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.

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...

Thanks again to the team. This was another great event. I can't wait to see everybody's summer updates in the fall.

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!

Congratulations to the Phoenix AZ Solo Region for winning SCCA's 2022 Tom Burke Award for Medium Regions. Dale Shoemaker, Area 11 Director

Great job everyone getting this event in considering the wet conditions. Special kudos to equipment setup, waiver and tech staff that did the majority of their work in a soaking rain. You all ROCK!! Event Chairs were great being flexible with the conditions and it looked like we were on track to be done on time even with 5 runs each during Comp Groups. Very impressive!! Here was my 49.355, the GoPro didn't record my 49.158 fast lap. And just for fun, here was Juan trying to learn how to drive my car, in the wet, having never even sat in the driver's seat before. He did fantastic!!

Thanks Kim...was an awesome day. I think we teched 55 or 56 cars and weighed 26. Here's a time lapse I took inside the garage for most of it. Thanks to everyone for being considerate to our neighbors...and making it a great day.

I decided I didn’t like any of the cones so hitting them on 4 of my 5 runs was therapeutic. This was one of my clean runs in the MK8

Very cool video Jason! The course was fun and challenging. Some of my runs that I thought were going to be slow were fast, and visa versa. I'll be spending a lot of time watching my videos... and everyone else's, to figure it out.

Results from the 04/23/2022 event along with the Spring 2022 season results have been posted to the results page. Please post any corrections or questions here. Congrats to all the class and trophy winners!

With little sleep and dealing with a herniated disk made for a rough day but we got some great images from both the morning and afternoon sessions. I appreciate the continued support and as a show of appreciation I'm offering anyone that buys 4 images a free 13"x19" print that I will bring to the next round. Here is the link! Sundays Images dropped prices back to just $10 each! Thanks again for having me and my son out at the event!

Results from the 02/12/2022 event have been posted to the results page. Please post any corrections or questions here.

comp run:

Day 1: youtube Day 2: youtube

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

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

Day 2-

Post up your videos from Sundays event!

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

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.

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!!

Here's my group B run in the STR Miata. 50.4 https://youtu.be/GamKptPPKM4?si=LTmf9O4QtQ4N0nu5

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

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:

Really challenging and rewarding Sunday course. That opening slalom was surprisingly tough with the awkward entry - super fun the couple of times I set it up right. I also found the final walloms tough to execute - only got that sequence right on a handful of runs. My best day 2 run:

As always I was really impressed with the events this past weekend. I am finally making strides in learning the car and love these fast track layouts.

Yesterday was really fun! This was my best, 51.983.

It was for sure interesting, especially the first slippy run. Autocrossing in the wet isn't something I'd want to do often, but it was something different to mix things up.. though run group A got to experience it the best 😄 I really liked the course and would be curious how it would be with a dry and clean skidpad! Here's my fastest run (48.894):

I loved the course design this weekend, but I couldn't put anything decent together. The best I could muster was a dirty 48.3xx

This driver just couldn't pull his head out and put together a decent run yesterday. The punitive elements directly after the sharp turns just didn't fit my car or driving style I guess. Still had a great time and CAM-T had an epic battle with the top 4 spots separated by about 4 tenths of a second. My camera didn't record my 50.486 run but here's my 50.7xx last run. Best part was, 2nd event in a row the car drove back home under it's own power!!

Fun course but we really struggled with rear grip Saturday, both on and off throttle. Spins, cones, and lots of counter steering… Made for an entertaining drive but unfortunately not as quick as we’d like. Best I could do was this 37.807:

Here is my 4th and fastest run, a 40.381. Data from that and my fifth run showed the car had at least a low 39 in it if it just had a decent driver. Loved the course and loved even more that I was able to complete all laps and drive my car back home again in one piece again finally.

My son and I had a great time on Sunday being back at the track, we are not used to this heat yet (WA is a little on the cooler side) but we managed to stick it out until the end of the day. This was my first time shooting autocross and I must admit I'm not used to all those cones! I agreed to give one free image to competitors so if you can give me your car details etc I will get a free image to you. The rest are up on my site and are available to purchase if you so wish. I hope to be back out again for the next round..fingers crossed. https://veitchcreative.smugmug.com/Car-Racing/SCCA-Solo/ I can also produce 19"x13" high quality prints if anyone is interested....Thanks!!