Pahrump TT

[TheStig]

gah your 993 makes me want to spend more money on another car


Hmmmm do I really need a 944 for autocross?

[jack miller]

I liked the original configuration also. I know we only drove the new portion of track at slow speeds but it did not seem all that interesting to me compared to the orginal track. Does any one know who designed the new portion of the track? It did not feel like Ruppert (the orginal owner and designer of the track) desgined it.

To all who expressed their appreciation, you are very welcome. For next year, I'd like to get some names of volunteers to help with equipment transportation, timing, and towing (at BW and SM). I'm also conversing with Z7 about doing a TT at their event early June at the Vegas Motorspeedway. I'll post other dates as I get them.

Kary, I think the back section is a nice addition. I would have made the banked corner faster, but I liked the first off-camber hair pin and I love that zero gravity drop and the blind sweeper following it. I also did a fast blast onto the "fastest" configuration entering old track at 5B. I think you will like that a lot! Personally, I think that will be the way to go next year.

[kary]

I liked the original configuration also. I know we only drove the new portion of track at slow speeds but it did not seem all that interesting to me compared to the orginal track. Does any one know who designed the new portion of the track? It did not feel like Ruppert (the orginal owner and designer of the track) desgined it.

To all who expressed their appreciation, you are very welcome. For next year, I'd like to get some names of volunteers to help with equipment transportation, timing, and towing (at BW and SM). I'm also conversing with Z7 about doing a TT at their event early June at the Vegas Motorspeedway. I'll post other dates as I get them.

Kary, I think the back section is a nice addition. I would have made the banked corner faster, but I liked the first off-camber hair pin and I love that zero gravity drop and the blind sweeper following it. I also did a fast blast onto the "fastest" configuration entering old track at 5B. I think you will like that a lot! Personally, I think that will be the way to go next year.

You could be right Jack, as I said it was driving at a slow pace so at full speed it might be quite different. It just felt like a different flow compared to the old track. I guess we will have to drive it to find out how well is flows all together next year!

As far as volunteers, as long as I make the event I will be able to help transport some items as long as my family doesn't fill the space with their stuff.

[Greg Phillips]

I liked the original configuration also. I know we only drove the new portion of track at slow speeds but it did not seem all that interesting to me compared to the orginal track. Does any one know who designed the new portion of the track? It did not feel like Ruppert (the orginal owner and designer of the track) desgined it.

I think it was Chris Benbow who pointed out that if you looked at the new track it was almost a mirror image of the old track from turn 3 to halfway down the front straight. Especially the inner loops. So although Rupert may have not designed it- he was involved

Greg

[ttweed]

Big Congrats go to my class nemisis Dan Andrews for his AM victory.

Looks like Dan figured a couple more things out on his 3rd visit to the track. A 1:50.8 is pretty quick for an old geezer. Another couple of tenths and you could have had my AM-class track record, Dan! Too bad!

I think it's indicative of how technical that track is that everyone seems to be cutting 2-3 seconds off their times each successive event. Practice makes perfect! I remember how I was getting lost on the track for at least the first two sessions I did there. It was very difficult to learn. The longer configuration is going to make it a new ballgame next year, I think.

Kary-
Something funny happens when I hit the "flip time format" button on those results. The times over 120 seconds seem to be missing a "0" after the "2" and are a little hard to read correctly. Is that a bug in the conversion program?

TT

[kary]

Kary-
Something funny happens when I hit the "flip time format" button on those results. The times over 120 seconds seem to be missing a "0" after the "2" and are a little hard to read correctly. Is that a bug in the conversion program?

TT

Tom, yes, sorry about that. I have not had time to get in there and fix it lately. I will ook at it soon.

[gulf911]

Looks like Dan figured a couple more things out on his 3rd visit to the track. A 1:50.8 is pretty quick for an old geezer. Another couple of tenths and you could have had my AM-class track record, Dan! Too bad!
TT

Yeah Tom, I figured out you can't get a good time with a 1973 suspension.... and I also figured out you can't compete with 60" wings when you have a Duck Tail... With cantilevers or slicks I may have been knocking on Kary's door...

[kary]

Looks like Dan figured a couple more things out on his 3rd visit to the track. A 1:50.8 is pretty quick for an old geezer. Another couple of tenths and you could have had my AM-class track record, Dan! Too bad!
TT

Yeah Tom, I figured out you can't get a good time with a 1973 suspension.... and I also figured out you can't compete with 60" wings when you have a Duck Tail... With cantilevers or slicks I may have been knocking on Kary's door...

I wouldn't answer the door

[MVZ944T]

I'm kicking myself, too!
Congrats to you, Kary and to Bob, and congrats to all who stayed for the Time Trial. It's a shame so many left!

John,

So that's why you wound up third? Good job guys. Did you run the same track as last year or?

Thunderhill for me this coming weekend.

[Junior]

Great Event...Thanks to SD PCA, Jack, Robert, and all the grungy "far end of the paddock crew". My Check engine light decided to finally come on today when I arrived in Boulder....2000 hard miles later....go figure.