Not bad for a lowly old autoxer in his first year of National road racing huh?

I'll be there Saturday morning. It's my birthday, and a good showing from Dave would be a great present. Then we'll have another autoxer's name to add to the list of top flight road racers. The fact he and I are pretty competitive has no bearing on this at all...... :leaving:

4th place right now is local (to NoVa) racer Rob Hines, who owns two T2 Camaros (but is driving a 350Z).

He's autocrossed once or twice but I don't think you can classify him as an autocrosser.

Pat

Sam,

I thought Dave said the race was on Sunday? And if so, are you going to be there? I have to change balljoints on an explorer for a friend on Sat, but I might talk my wife into letting me come up Sunday (if it's not over).

Happy Birthday Sam!

Wow, go Dave! Too bad we won't be able to see the race until New Years or somethin'. I love it when someone goes out to represent the SoloII crowd!

T2 Race is scheduled for 11 AM on 9/24........

thank you.....

GOOD LUCK GUYS :drive:

I have seen Dave drive, he will leave notting out there

It's good to see him doing so well thus far. Hopefully he and the other CamBird guys will stick it to the rally cars despite the power/weight ratio deficit.

People should keep in mind that Dave has been competing on roadcourses as far back as 1998. Sure, he's an "autocrosser," but he's one with more seat time on roadcourses than many "roadcourse guys" here.

Yeah, Dave just has a lot of seat time (and of course tallent). I've always maintained that one does help with the other as long as you don't try to use EXACTLY the same approch with both. I'd hate to give up either...

Go Dave!

Jason S.

Looks like Dave finished 8th. Link to results.

Pat

Damn those STI's anyway, taking 1st & 2nd. Though Don Knowles set the fastest lap of the race in a Firebird, the F-Bodies came in 3rd & 4th. Sounds like it was an exciting race to watch.

I know it's delayed, but does anybody know when Speed will be showing these races?

Xmas day Dennis

Does anybody know who won?

Went to the Runoffs on Saturday, and it was an interesting time to say the least. Not only did I get to see Dave race, but also learned something quite pertinent to a few other threads (will be posted soon.....) about some very fast A-Sedan cars and what they have for suspensions. Heh.

But is about Dave, so here's the report. He indeed finished 8th, and the car definitely looks like it was though the mill. The entire left rear is not black from tire marks, to go along with two donuts on the right and a crunched front when he contaced Hemmingson in Madness (station 8) at the start.

Considering Dave basically couldn't always get up to 3rd gear from 2nd, I think he did a hell of a job to finish where he did. I couldn't see the start, but Dave got the drop on Hemmingson and pulled him, but missed the 2-3 upshift, which hurt something internally. From then on getting into 3rd from 2nd was a crap shoot, but he could go down. So he ran most of the race coming out of the Carousel and the Keyhole in 3rd instead of 2nd. Both the corners lead onto the only straights @ Mid-Ohio.

I admit I'm a little jealous that Dave was out there and I wasn't. But money talks and frankly after watching Adam Dean's car get his and break the LF suspension, and then Rob Hines' 350Z get crushed in an accident which if sure wasn't his fault from what I could see. I can't afford to throw a car away, and that's what you need to be able to do to run T2 or A-Sedan. I'm proud of David, you drove well and I think the Pole and 8th (one of the top Kumho cars I think) @ your very first Runoffs is awesome. And he beat a hell of lot of FAST people. And it's pretty cool to watch someone you know you can run with out there doing the deed. Nice Job, and I hope when he reads this Dave will tell you himself. And I hope that he made it home to LA without any trouble.

As for the STi battle in T2... At one point Knowles hit Hemmingson pretty hard and had him about 45 degrees to the direction of travel. Hemmingson floored it and the car just dug out in a 4 wheel burning powerslide, never even losing the lead. That's one of those things that makes the rally-cars so formidable. Oh yeah, I forgot that Dave got a shot from Rosenblum (STi) into the Carousel and Dave tells me was what felt like 90 degrees to the direction of travel (I'm sure not that far, but he was way sideways) and that lost him a few spots initially too.

Chuck Hemmingson won. Skavnes was 2nd. Don Knowles was 3rd in a Firebird (and was doing some beating trying to get up more). So it was an STi 1,2. F-body in 3. An Evo was up there somewhere, maybe 5th? An SRT-4 was 7th (Stan Wilson). Schotz 8th. I think Terry Eskind was 9th....

...having raced against the "rally cars" a ton this year.....it's official....I HATE 'EM!

Bummer, major contact sucks. Much of the time there is rough driving involved and also penalties, thank goodness or I would not be road racing!

First Miata's, then BMW's, and now Rally Cars.

Pretty soon you're going to hate everything

The F-production race on Sunday wasn't much better. My cousin from Flordia was running so I went up (didn't make Saturday, had too much going on). We watched a CRX roll/cartwheel about 5 times total after the front left wheel seperated under braking from the car and it made a hard right over the curbing at speed (driver crawled out in about 10-15 seconds and was shaken, but ok) and several cars had battle damage (I have some pics, nothing great, just a basic 3 meg canon with a 4x zoom...damn I miss my pro gear). I'll post some pics tonight.

I love contact.... of course that is why I race on the dirt track. :leaving:

We had a guy from dirt track join up with CMC - he said there was a bouncer at one of the tracks he did events at!