2014 SCCA SOLO National Championship

AK370Z · 09-06-2014, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by j-rho

Heh, yeah, um, they probably don't teach that at the Evo school...
I thought I probably hit the right-side cone in the braking spot just before the finish left-hander. Turns out I didn't, but didn't feel like waiting any longer to find out.

Having to adjust to the relatively small size of the Z after having spent 6 of the last 7 seasons in Vipers, which feel like aircraft carriers in size comparison. In the Z I am way off the cones (didn't hit any all week) because of a lack of adjustment to its dimensions, and familiarization with its sight lines.
As the proprioception builds, should start to do better.

haha no they do not! I did similar thing this year in one of the event. I "felt" that I clipped a cone. Of course my eyes goes straight to the rear view mirror to see if a cone worker ran out. Of course that threw off my whole run bc I took my eyes off from front. I actually out "wtf are you doing Kaiser??" haha .. Let say from that event, I keep my rear view mirror folded up. Also, do you know you can fold our side view mirrors forward? Let me see if I can pull a pic. I think it allows slight more view of the course looking through side. I think I saw a few nat guys do it last year.

Just curious, what made you go from glorious, rare, hey-look-at-that-viper to 370Z?

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Originally Posted by 14BlackCherry

You can definitely see the experience in the other drivers and it was amazing to see Stuart put that time of a 64 up on the east course. I'm looking forward to next year and to keep learning the car/seat experience. Very fun time.

I think I'm in the same situation here. I want to prep the car even more for C-Street and attend some National events this year.. Maybe we will see each other. I see you got some mods.. do you run ASP?

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Originally Posted by 03threefiftyz

My woulda, coulda, shoulda 54.7 run from the West course. Hit the second to last cone in the finish offsets (pass side). Still would not have overcome a bad day one, but would have put me about a tenth out of the win instead of .6ish. Pretty happy to PAX 7th overall with the crappy day one and sitting on my safety run on the west. Still only good enough for 4th in BSP, though. BSP was mega fast this year.

Fantastic driving. Couple things just blows me away are

a. How can you guys add so much speed in turns/sweepers and don't end up doing 360? every time I try to add speed in turns/sweeper, my rear end goes sideways and I must counter steer. Does that have to do with aggressive alignment? I mean, in your run (or jeffs or jasons) I rarely saw you guys counter steer. What's the secret ingredient?(alignment? shocks? sway?)

b. you guys (pro Nat level drivers) can carry soo much speed through slalom and stay so close to cones -- it's just amazing. I backside the cones too but I think with shocks, sways and more aggressive alignment (oh and practice), I will start to carry much more speed.

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