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Well, finally stretched my legs on a rare weekend off and went to an SCCA event! This was the Champ Tour at Mineral Wells. Quite the smattering of national champs attending and a very fast course. I'm needing more seat time and I wanted to experience a "big" event. Seems all the CAM guys were in STP or at Optima in NOLA getting rained out.

The car is a whole lot faster than the driver, something I'm working on improving! I'm working to get better at looking further down the track. Had a few DNF's and coned this run, but it's all in the learning process.

VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDIw6fxPot8

The drive down there from Lubbock was quite sketchy. A fully loaded car (wheels, jack, tools, etc. etc.) and I made the foolish mistake of taking I20 as I haven't made that drive in a long time and it seemed fine last time. I can't tell you how many times I scraped the roadway because of how rutted the asphalt was. I picked up a trailer at the event that I'd arranged to buy off a member there, loaded my stuff on the car and drove back after everything was done. Went a different route and it was so nice and the car just felt better without all the crap piled up in it (and I felt a little safer with less stuff to potentially fly around).

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WarShrike View Member Profile	May 1 2018, 01:43 AM Post #1
Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 102 Joined: 26-February 10 From: Lubbock, TX Member No.: 8,943	(IMG:https://i.imgur.com/NRLkKRr.jpg) Well, finally stretched my legs on a rare weekend off and went to an SCCA event! This was the Champ Tour at Mineral Wells. Quite the smattering of national champs attending and a very fast course. I'm needing more seat time and I wanted to experience a "big" event. Seems all the CAM guys were in STP or at Optima in NOLA getting rained out. The car is a whole lot faster than the driver, something I'm working on improving! I'm working to get better at looking further down the track. Had a few DNF's and coned this run, but it's all in the learning process. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDIw6fxPot8 The drive down there from Lubbock was quite sketchy. A fully loaded car (wheels, jack, tools, etc. etc.) and I made the foolish mistake of taking I20 as I haven't made that drive in a long time and it seemed fine last time. I can't tell you how many times I scraped the roadway because of how rutted the asphalt was. I picked up a trailer at the event that I'd arranged to buy off a member there, loaded my stuff on the car and drove back after everything was done. Went a different route and it was so nice and the car just felt better without all the crap piled up in it (and I felt a little safer with less stuff to potentially fly around). (IMG:https://i.imgur.com/dJf7OOs.jpg)