David 2

Thank you.

Is there a good solution available to have a car and gear shipped to Nationals? I would enjoy a flight to Lincoln so much more than days of driving there and back ........

Wise words Scott. Thank you.

Here is my best TO run at 37.280 on 4/28/24. It felt very sloppy and had a lot of turn-in and mid corner understeer all day. It might have been my worn tires. I changed pressure and it helped but still had a lot of understeer. Maybe it was the lower grip in Tucson vs Phoenix and I should have softened my front bar or firmed up my rear shocks. Either way, the car did pretty good though there were plenty of spots to clean things up. From the video I can see that I am still not looking ahead enough, still late on power, not trail braking enough, not smooth enough, etc. etc. Having video with data is proving to be helpful in seeing and understanding my driving flaws. If you see anything I should take a look at or think about, please let me know as I don't know what I don't know!!

Good run Ron!

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.

That looked almost identical to my best run...........kidding! Great run Jason. Thanks for posting it.

Yep, what Stephen says is true. I drive the 2023 version of the car which has a slightly wider wheel. I run the Bridgestones and am very happy with them. But, if you look at the results from any National event for DS class you will rarely find anything other than the Bridgestone RE-71Rs.

Thank you.

So, as it turns out, I am the forgetful soul who left the Milwaukee M12 compressor at the March 9th event. Hopefully it got put into lost and found in one of the storage units. If so, I'll pick it up in April. Thanks

Nice!! I get to slalom again.

There were three observers in D group. I was one of them. There wasn't an issue with observing (yes I am biased). We were down to 2 observers for about 1 mintue when we had a lost child incident but other than that it went smooth. The observers, by design, don't have a time sheet in front of them and they rotate car assignments so they wouldn't know that a driver was pulling a DNF on repeat runs. But, I will say that all DNF's were announced quite clearly over the PA and I think the announcer did that well, to my recollection. However, the speakers are set up to announce towards the grid and a lot of times announcements are made before the driver makes it past the exit gate so another speaker pointed inward toward the course and the exit lane could be very helpul. I think this is probably the best solution. Personally, I don't have my car radio on to the announcer when I'm on the track as I find it a distraction. I do agree that it would be great if someone could have gone to that driver and advised there were multiple DNF's. Maybe that driver knew, maybe not. But, there really isn't a method or time available with the current staffing at the tent to do that. The observers are busy, the announcer is doing their part to announce it (if the driver is hearing it or payng attention), and the timer is busy recording the times. If we need another person under the tent to run out and talk with a driver about their messup, that is another worker needed under the tent. The current workers don't have the available time to go talk to drivers about their mess up. I personally had a similar issue early in my "career" where I had DNF's three times in a row and didn't know where on the course I was screwing up and ran over to ask some people where. I was told and fixed it on run 4. It wasn't their responsibilty to come and tell me, or so I thought. But, that assumes a driver is aware by checking their runs on Live Timing or listening to the announcer. I was listening to the announcer and on my third DNF I got an earful from Dave Schotz over the PA who said something along the lines of "He better go find out where he is missing the course". Dave made it clear on the PA that I was screwing up and it was my responsibility to fix it. Maybe the solution is for the announcer to say something along the lines of "someone go talk to this driver, they need some help as they have three DNF's in a row" or, what Dave told me which was that I needed to figure out how to solve my problem. It was my error and I appreciate Dave making it clear on the PA that I was screwing up and it was my responsibiltiy to fix it. Another question is when do you trigger that disccussion, at two DNF's, at three DNF's, one DNF? On that day we only had four runs, I wouldn't think at 2 DNF's they should be talked to. But, at 3 DNF's, maybe that is when it needs to be announced very clearly on the PA that some consulting would be helpful and someone can intervene. The good news is I suspect that particular driver will be checking Live Timing or listening to the announcer very closly from now on. It is a good lesson to all of us. I lived a similar experience but mine was very fortunately limited to three DNF's (thank you Dave Schotz). I feel for Greg but at least it was only a lack of recorded times and not a car breakdown or a cr.sh (I dare not write the entire word).

Thank you Matt

So many great choices. There is the Mustang Mach 1, Camaro SS 1LE, GR Supra, C7 Z51 Corvette, and the almighty (for me), albeit a bit pricey, 718 Cayman 2.5 GTS...... none of which I know how to drive. Or, go back with a GR86 which seems to work well for me. Plus, I have the opportunity to test drive my cousin's C7 Z51 and expose some new layers of rubber on his tires. I can't pass up that opportunity!

Thanks... my friend might be able to get a windshield before Sunday just to be safe.