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Nice! I was out there Sunday helping Dale with his car in TT. Wish I knew you were there.

Here is my 2nd session Sunday where I set new PB 4 laps in a row. The rumble barriers are painted yellow inside the red/white curbing. https://youtu.be/eNkeO1bmdrQ?si=hPsknighugCDEVNy

Oh I'm already addicted... lol... Watch out for the new rumble barriers... They make it mandatory that you do not drop a tire anywhere near them. I spent all day Saturday relearning my line to make sure I didn't encounter them.

Event 3 of the Fall 2024 season was the first local PASR event that I've missed in a LONG time... Sounds like it was a fairly good event though and you all got along simply fine without me. 😀 I promise to not make it a habit of missing events though. I do have a good excuse though, as I was out of town doing this all weekend at Podium Club. I even ran into some other autocrossers out there, it was good to see you all there on Saturday (and even some on Sunday). I had a blast learning how to go faster on track and competing in Time Trial classes, which are like autocross on steroids kind of. Looking forward to seeing everyone again in December.

First off wanted to express a HUGE thank you to all of those that supported putting this event on as well as to those that participated. Kenny manned event chair duties masterfully, Kim made sure we were safe, Bill created a fantastic course, Craig got a bunch of people to come in Sunday night to prep so we'd be ready to roll at 8 am sharp, all drivers kept their nose clean for the most part all day and everyone chipped in when extra help was needed all the way up to teardown and cleanup where we had 3 workers assigned and at least 12-15 people stuck around in the heat to help us clean up quickly and efficiently. Thank you all. These special events take some extra work to put on but in my opinion anyway they are SO worth it. Hope everyone else had as much fun as I did. I had technical challenges once again with both my GoPro and my Solostorm GPS, so I only have 1 of my 7 runs where they both worked. It wasn't my fastest at a 134.762 +2, but it was pretty close. My fastest on run 3 in the AM was 133.648 which was good enough for P1 in CAM-T, 18th in PAX, and 24th in raw time out of 80 timed drivers. I'll take that happily...

I think Chris Hall, Mike and Amanda Hitt and Mat Leon will all be there tomorrow...

Here's the direct link to the survey, I filled it out the other day. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SQK76H2

Here's my 44.434 on my last of 6 tries...this run jumped me from 8th in class to 3rd. Definitely struggled staying off the cones and taking the favored line. It seemed like there wasn't a lot of places to make up time on this course, just plenty of places to loose time. Still a super fun day and a great way to cap off a great season. See y'all in the fall.

Steve, I have replied to both of your emails asking the same questions...did you receive my emails? Lance

Hello Racers, This is your friendly reminder that registration for our last event of the Spring 2024 series opens this Wednesday evening at 8:00 pm. http://msreg.com/PHXAZSolo2024Spring4 This will be a normal points event. As always we anticipate a rush to register and you may be allowed to initially pick a spot in a run group, but by the time you check out it may be sold out and you'll be waitlisted. I'll be watching live and will redirect your run group choice to an open group as quickly as I can and confirm your entry. Run Group C is always the first to sell out so maybe consider an alternative if you don't want to get waitlisted right off the bat. Good luck with the race to get into the races... Also, the Region is hosting a Social event at Ground Control Craft Food and Drink immediately after this event. The Region will provide the Food and Non Alcoholic drinks. Beer and other alcoholic drinks will be the responsibility of each person on their own. This link leads to the event which is to allow people to RSVP and pay for the banquet so that we can give the restaurant an accurate head count prior to the event. Admission to the Banquet for PASR members is $5 each and all non-members and guests of members $20 each, which is our cost. http://msreg.com/PASR2024SpringSocial Please come out and rehash the Spring series with us and enjoy a few moments with each other away from the track before the long off season starts. Thanks, Lance

Got any heat cycled out 660s you need to dispose of? How about some almost used up Nankangs? I need at least 2 tires to make one more track day this spring. Thanks, Lance

The pics with two cars in them are my favorites, but all of them are pretty good. Thanks for taking and sharing them Mike.

6 month old does need to register as a guest, parents will need to fill out a minor waiver for the child. https://www.azsolo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AMP-minor-waiver-new-2021.pdf

I just went back to look and it appears we were down one Observer in Group D and the 2 Observers we did have were both not "normal" Observers. Add in that Danielle was training a new T&S person and it's understandable that the T&S tent was unusually busy and left no time to let Greg know he was DNFing. It sucks and hopefully we can learn from this and have a better plan going forward. If any of the 35 people that canceled their registrations the week of the event are wondering, this is a byproduct of what happens when we run short on experienced workers.

That's BS! Far as I'm concerned it was his mistake and you fixed it!! 😉 That makes you just as good as Bucki and even better this month because you were there. 😄

Danielle says she'll have the final results posted this afternoon...

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...

I'll ask MSR Support once again if this is still on the requested upgrade list. Last I heard they were very aware of the issue but had no hard plans to address recognizing the SCCA Digital Annual Waiver.

https://philstireservice.com/product-category/competition-tires/nankang/

Here's my 46.937, loved the course design Nick Sloan, so much fun! Car seemed to work great, love my RE71rs tires...all the driver had to do was hang on and not screw up.

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.

I fixed the entry list to now show registered guests. If your wife's name isn't on the list as a guest, she needs to register as a guest before registration closes tomorrow. Any questions, shoot me an email at phoenixazsolo@gmail.com Lance

Thanks to everyone for showing up and being respectful to our neighbors, you all are a great buncha folks. We ended up with only 2 pieces of pizza and 4 wings left over so it seems like the Streets of NY food was accepted nicely. Thanks to everyone that sampled our coffee and even more thanks to those that purchased a bag after, really appreciate that. Also have to give a shout out to Doug and Michelle that helped man the scales all day giving me a bit of a break to mingle around. I forgot to set the GoPro up and haven't tallied the tech sheets yet so have no idea how many we actually teched and weighed, but I'm guessing about 55 Techs, 25 weighs, and 5 corner balances. I didn't take many pics either but Terri grabbed a few, these were my favorites. Please share any that you may have taken if you can.

I'd suggest the Bridgestone RE71RSs also but I don't want you to start raw timing me again... 😉

Trailers are okay, will probably have to unload a block or so away. Main thing is to only park on one side of the streets to leave enough room for people to still get by.