Chuckwalla results are up!

[tb911]

http://results.pcasdr.org/event_standings.php?time_format=0&database=tt&event_date=2013-01-27

[Greg Phillips]

The sun was in my eyes
The wind was blowing sand onto the track

The new camera mount acted like a Gurney flap and took away all the air off my wing

I left my best tires on the trailer

That should be enough excuses for now

Greg

[ttweed]

Looks like Mark Rondeau is getting used to the engine being in the wrong end of the car!

TT

[Jad]

Looks like Mark Rondeau is getting used to the engine being in the wrong end of the car!

TT

I think it would be more accurate to say he is getting used to sticker 710's

[Greg Phillips]

Looks like Mark Rondeau is getting used to the engine being in the wrong end of the car!

TT

He is still trying to get the engine up front

Greg

[ttweed]

I think it would be more accurate to say he is getting used to sticker 710's

Uh-oh. That can become quite an expensive addiction.

TT

[mrondeau]

Tom, I am getting used to the rear engine car. I tried out my first set of new tires on the Silver Bullet at Chuckwalla and I have to admit, I liked them.... a lot! I didn't put them on until the session before lunch on Sunday and they immediately brought my time down by 3 seconds. I was able to take another 1.5 seconds off in timed runs. Now I have to work on set up and a way to keep buying sticky tires.

Jad,

Greg, The engine never got in front of both front wheels.

[Don Middleton]

... I tried out my first set of new tires on the Silver Bullet at Chuckwalla and I have to admit, I liked them.... a lot! I didn't put them on until the session before lunch on Sunday and they immediately brought my time down by 3 seconds. I was able to take another 1.5 seconds off in timed runs. Now I have to work on set up and a way to keep buying sticky tires....

Mark, I meant to ask you at the track - is this a hard decision to switch from Hankooks to Kumhos, i.e. do you think the Kumhos might be a little faster?

[mrondeau]

... I tried out my first set of new tires on the Silver Bullet at Chuckwalla and I have to admit, I liked them.... a lot! I didn't put them on until the session before lunch on Sunday and they immediately brought my time down by 3 seconds. I was able to take another 1.5 seconds off in timed runs. Now I have to work on set up and a way to keep buying sticky tires....

Mark, I meant to ask you at the track - is this a hard decision to switch from Hankooks to Kumhos, i.e. do you think the Kumhos might be a little faster?

The Hankooks I ran on the 911 were 225/245 and were used for for timed runs at Chuckwalla last May (100+ temps!) on the 944S. The 710's are 245/265 and very new and very sticky. Wide with stick trumps narrow with stick. I'll have to see how they hold up. I used to be a lot easier on tires, but I was slower then. I'm planning on staying with the 710's because they come in the optimum size for my car and the Hankooks don't.

[Dan Chambers]

The sun was in my eyes
The wind was blowing sand onto the track

The new camera mount acted like a Gurney flap and took away all the air off my wing

I left my best tires on the trailer

That should be enough excuses for now

Greg

Greg, you forgot: "I don't have a 3.6L"

[Jad]

Dan,

Even your excuses are cautious, go big with a cup car 3.8l engine, not a wimpy 3.6l. Now if he had 'that' engine then....

[Steve Grosekemper]

Where is the evil wizzard stirring the boiling pot emoticon?