AX CHARITY CHALLENGE!

[Tim Comeau]

What a blast!
I didn't turn one lap on the course and I still had a great time! It was a different kind of fun, but still fantastic.

Here's what happened. I offered up one of my 944-spec cars for all comers to go head-to-head in. $10 for 3 laps and possible bragging rights. $5 of each entry would go to Charity and I would keep $5 to help pay for wear and tear on the car.

Same car, same tires, same track, same everything.........
I didn't hear one excuse about why somebody went slower than anybody else!

We had 16 different drivers give it their all in the same car. My little car ran 52 laps and didn't skip a beat. The TOYO TIRES looked the same as when we started the event. We raised $169 dollars and I didn't feel so good about splitting the smallish pot so it all got handed over to Monica. Why $169? Well, one driver had $9 total cash on him(close enough!) and one chap just had to have a second go at it!
Drivers were generally very impressed with the cars performance as well as its "fun factor."
Stevie G. parked his red rocket for a while and jumped into the spec car. His 3rd lap was a smokin' quick 1:04.16!!!!! So it should be clear now that not only is Steve's red car quick, Steve himself is quick. He finished that lap a full second sooner than the nearest competitor.
Other drivers adapted to the car pretty easily. Check out the lap times.
1. S. Groskemper 1:04.16
2. D. Chambers 1:05.11
3. B. Hayes 1:05.14
4. C. Scragg 1:05.45
5. J. Kincaid 1:05.64
6. A. Wolf 1:06.04
7. M. McGowan 1:06.75
8. H. Meeder 1:06.84
9. K. Crosser 1:07.52
10. C. Sharp 1:08.14

It was a great competition, an absolute blast for me to share this class of Porsche racing cars with other drivers, and exciting for the drivers as well.
I was asked by one of the 2005 AX chairs to do it again.
Sounds like fun to me!

[Kim Crosser]

Tim - that was great fun - I hope you are thinking of doing that at future events (maybe even collecting enough to cover the cost of tires?).

No more BRI formulas - same car, same tires, same conditions, different drivers.

Maybe next time we can get some of the other "hot shoes" (maybe they are really "hot cars" instead of "hot shoes"?) to give it a try.

Thanks a lot for sacrificing your car (and tires) for a good cause and a lot of fun.

[paul-silver]

Great job, Tim!

The other charity challenge was the cone challenge that Carl thought up. $2 per cone hit would go into the charity pot.
That raised somewhere around $350 to $400.

So the total raised for charity on the day was somwhere between $500 and $600!!

Paul

[Tim Comeau]

Now that was a crack up. The red pot hanging from the tripod at the start finish line was a nice cross between the salvation army and a turnpike toll booth!

[Carl Scragg]

Tim,

Thanks for the chance to try out your spec car. I was quite impressed with the performance of that water-pumping 4-banger. What a blast to drive!

BTW, did you allow Steve to tweak anything before his incredible run? That was one fast time.

Carl

[Dan Chambers]

He finished that lap a full second sooner than the nearest competitor.
Other drivers adapted to the car pretty easily. Check out the lap times.
1. S. Groskemper 1:04.16
2. D. Chambers 1:05.11
3. B. Hayes 1:05.14
4. C. Scragg 1:05.45
5. J. Kincaid 1:05.64
6. A. Wolf 1:06.04
7. M. McGowan 1:06.75
8. H. Meeder 1:06.84
9. K. Crosser 1:07.52
10. C. Sharp 1:08.14

It was a great competition, an absolute blast for me to share this class of Porsche racing cars with other drivers, and exciting for the drivers as well.
I was asked by one of the 2005 AX chairs to do it again.
Sounds like fun to me!

Well .... not quite a full second, Tim. I'll grovel for my puney five hundredths under a "full" second. After all, us water-pumpers have to save face and stand up for ourselves every where we can!

That was really fun! As I'm driving home I'm thinking:
"Rear glass: 45#'s, interior: 200#'s, door panels: 35 #'s, passenger seat: 48#'s, .... hmmm what else, what else ........... WAIT! I like my car the way it is! What am I thinking."

Really, really fun to try to match up with some of my former instructors on the track .... boy, did I get lucky! Oh yeah.. I meant to ask: .... was I suppose to go around each of the slalom cones, or stay out to one side of them?

And thanks again for donating ALL your earnings, Tim. That was truly nobel. Our total cash from Tim, and all the cone killers was just over $600.00 for the day .... and lots of great toys, too. Thanks so much!!!!

Thanks everyone, for a great other-car A-X. It was a blast!

[Tim Comeau]

Thanks Dan. And you're welcome.
You can leave the rear glass in. It's required. The stock non-powered passenger seat is 38 lbs and comes out with 4 10mm bolts. Keep your nice interior, too.
What you can do is install the full 944-spec suspension and keep the car stock otherwise. You'll have a REALLY nice handling street car!

[Tim Comeau]

Let's do it again.

[Kim Crosser]

Tim - I hope that means you are going to repeat at the Jan 30 AX. Sign me up!

[martinreinhardt]

Tim, sign me up as well.

[Tim Comeau]

See new topic. Thanks, drivers.