Those of you attending this weekend:

Track gates are open from 7:00 - 10:00 pm Friday night. They open again at 7:00 Saturday morning. Registration starts at 7 am in the driver's lounge. Driver's meeting is at 7:45.

Garage spaces are $20 and reserved. If you want one, call Rusty Rush at 979-690-2500 or you can get one at registration.

See you Saturday!
Misty Cain

House inspectors due 12/16 at 9am

well guys, how was the weekend?
i got the car running and the roof fixed.

Glenn,

One of the Instructors walked up to me first thing and asked for me by name -- He had on an SVT Cobra T shirt and said he knew you and Mitch. Being the gracious soul that I am I did not hold that against him but I did eye him with some suspicion since he freely admitted it. Sorta squinted at him like Clint Eastwood in Hang 'Em High.

Met y5e06 ( Morgan) and he was working hard getting his CMC car sorted. Met Stangkiller. I also hooked back up with GuySS for the first time since Big Bend. He drove up for just a few hours in a sweet little '40 Chevy.


As far as my experience? I had a mind bending time... That is really the only way I can describe it. It was humbling and frustrating at first but by the end of the day Sunday I was throwing the car around the curvy parts alot better. Becky Laughlin was my instructor both days and she was a patient soul - God bless her. She did take me on a ride in her Porsche that was just astounding.

I have never been anywhere close to this kind of experience before and there was a pretty steep learning curve. Even though the ORR car is not set up at all for this, it did pretty well. Tranny (A4) ran hot even with a cooler because there was just not enough air getting to it. The tune was all wrong since I have the converter locking up and stayin locked at 90mph plus. The extra weight in the car killed me -- and my arms. The alignment was not good for this and I could go on and on.

Am I going to make any changes to the car? No, it is a specific purpose car and it does well at what it is built for. Did I learn anything? Most definitely!

I have some videos and pics I will post later.

Ah, Becky in her purple Porsche. She's a bank VP or something. You'd never, ever guess by looking at her she is a speed freak and damned good at it.

Glad you had a great experience and I certainly wish I could have been there.

The home inspectors were canceled for Saturday as I had to chase down a Power of Attorney and then rescheduled the INspectors for Sunday (yesterday).

Trust me ... you had a LOT more fun than I did.

How many cars were there?

That was me Andy, sorry I didn't get back around to visit with you some more but after the "Dirty Harry" squint I figured you were busy lol. Glad to hear you made the most out of the weekend, I had to bail after Saturday but really enjoyed that track time and the weather we had.

Mike,

Everyone was busy. I would be chatting with someone and just start getting into it when they would call my group to the grid. Not a lot of time for visiting.

The weather WAS extraordinary for mid-December. T shirts were perfect for the temps.

Oh Jesus ...

It was Bell that was honored to know us, not the other way around.

Pics




Hangin'out






Front straight











GuySS --- That is Misty and her Fbod in the background

Damn ... I wish I could have been there ....

Me too Mitch-- especially if you would have stayed over in your trailer. There was ONE other group of younger folks who set up tents in one of the garages -- other than that it was just us. We had a blast in the evenings wit the entire place to ouselves.

Sunday was the best -- most people had left and there were very few cars running in the different groups. I asked Morgan to take the ORR car out for a session but he was just too darned busy tweaking his setup. Had you or Glenn been there I would have gladly let you guys thrash it for awhile.

Hahha, I like that second pic. That is Ryan Kyle in the Tacoma pickup that you passed on the front straight. Bone stock 4 cyl 5 spd 2wd Tacoma...with 315 Victoracers mounted on 17x11 Cobra wheels. He does surpisingly well in it.

Well, I'm glad I pulled it together and made it out Sunday. With issues I was working out I didn't get one full speed session in until after lunch. Felt good knocking the dust off.
The weather last weekend was absolutely gorgeous. I usually hate the drive home after a long day but even that was super. I was up and out of the house by 5am so when I finally got home after screwing with the car all day at the track I was beat.
It was good to meet AndyJ & Guy as it is always nice to put a name and face together. Too bad everyone is so spread out across the as a FRRAX track day would be a ball.

Oh, even though it isn't listed on the website there is another Motorsport Club weekend 20-21 January (good tune up for 1st '07 CMC weekend?)

I posted a one lap video with the instructor in th ecar in the video section