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You made my first race weekend a great experience! Thanks for taking it easy on the new guy!
And I am really glad that Chuck (ctbimmer) is okay. He helped me out A LOT during the Friday Comp School, so it was especially scary/sad to come around Turn 3 and see his car on its side against the tire wall.
M3Bill wrote:
[quote]You made my first race weekend a great experience! Thanks for taking it easy on the new guy!
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Who won? tell us more.
Elephant4 wrote:
[quote]M3Bill wrote:
[quote]You made my first race weekend a great experience! Thanks for taking it easy on the new guy!
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Who won? tell us more.[/quote]
Skeen won both days and I think Damion Moses finished second both days. I’m not sure where to find the rest of the results online. I’d post them if I could.
Saturday Results (top 10):
Mike Skeen
Damion Moses
David Cullen
Robert Patton
Chuck Taylor
Travis Wilson
JP Coates
Craig Geiger
Robert Summers
Laura Patton
Sunday:
Skeen
Moses
Wilson
Summers
Kelly Childress
Cullen
Coates
Laura Patton (beat Dad!)
Geiger
Robert Patton
Wilson won the coveted 6th place trophy on Saturday, along with the $50 from Gran Turismo East.
Personally, I had a great race with Travis on Saturday, and on Sunday I spent most of the time chasing down Rob Summers in the Pink Panther. He and Travis got by me at the standing start, and I chased Rob for a bunch of laps until he bobbled in 5 and I got him going into 6. Couldn’t stand my good fortune, however, because the next time through 3, where both of us had been hitting pretty hard on the curbing, it got away from me. I caught the first swing but not the second, and exited track right going mostly backwards.
Hit the tire wall on the left side and rolled up on my passenger door.
The bizarre thing was I was sitting midway around 4, and neither corner station (I found out later) knew I was there. So, I was hanging in my seat, leaning on my new center net for a few laps until some other incident caused a FCY and and they eventually discovered me hanging out next to the tire wall.
The car is now kinda ugly, but the damage is mostly cosmetic. After chopping off what remained of the exhaust, I drove it onto the trailer.
I’ll need some body panels, trim bits, exhaust and a trailing arm at a minimum. Not sure how much effort I’m going to put into looks, we’ll have to see about that.
Bill Z (M3Bill) showed decent speed straight out of comp school, and I think some special mention should go to David Walsh. His car was a mess on Saturday. Cutting out in the turns, shattered windshield, and 2 broken motor mounts. He and his DE partner thrashed all Saturday night and half of Sunday, but he made the grid from the last row and nearly earned a top-10, finishing 11th. Bill and David W are now another couple guys to watch in SE.
I’m disappointed to end what was shaping up as a great weekend for me on a downer, but the damage isn’t that bad and I’ll be back. I still think the SE30 group puts on the best racing show in NASA.
I suppose this will be the race report thread?
Beertech and MaltLiquorTech brought their game faces (which look pale and green Sunday mornings) and a sh!tload of their bad luck stickers. I chased down JP Coates during Saturday’s sprint race but couldn’t quite pass him, despite his left rear flat tire issue… Weak on my part. What was the ambient air temp? 102? HOTlanta.
Sunday was much cooler, pleasant in fact. Low 90’s? Standing start. I got a decent start. Laura Patton successfully dive bombed me into 10a though and so I spent the remainder of the race running her down, again to no avail.
I managed to eek out 8th and 9th places by the skin of my teeth.
As always, congratulations go out to "SkeenTheMachine," formerly known as Michael Skeen. It’s an honor and a privilege to beat Robert Patton, brakes or no brakes… I’ll take it. Chuck, glad you’re ok and going to get back on the horse.
Bill, check out mylaps.com soon and you will see the data from the weekend (using your transponder number).
Fun times as always!
Great racing, everyone! I am glad you are fine, Chuck. I wish I could have been out there driving instead of stuck in the pits. Maybe next year…
Craig talked a lot of smack with the coveted 6th place trophy. I was looking forward to clenching it on Saturday, but sadly had a brake pedal failure during the race. After trying to drive through it for a couple of laps, the throttle stuck and I almost punted Laura in 3. I then decided it would be in everyone’s best interest for me to retire.
A couple of sheet metal screws later and I was ready for Sunday. Qualified 5th, but had a bad start with a little too much wheelspin causing the pink panther to slide by on the outside (He got by Chuck also who was in front of me 3rd on the grid). Robert got by me into 10 on the first lap but I was able to get back by and start trying to chase down the top 5. I spent most of the race reeling them in a little at a time, yet was unsuccessful. Obviously rattled a bit coming over the hill to see #401 coming to rest on it’s side against the tire wall… I don’t know, but I think it was the Beertech sticker put on overnight that’s the true culpret.
Great field, great racing, great time…
Another Ggreat weekend of racing in NASA Southeast. Chuck’s incident was the only negative of the weekend for Spec E30 but luckily he was not injured and the damage to the car is only cosmetic.
Sat. I qualified 4th. I thought I had a much better lap in qauli than I actually did. Travis was pretty impressed with himself for out qaulifying, but that didn’t last long 
I eventaully got past Travis and Robert and set off after Skeen. It didn’t happen though and I finshed second.
Sunday I qaulified 2nd and got a good standing start. It wasn’t enough though to clear Skeen going into turn 1. I spent the rest of the race looking at his rear bumper and could never quite get in a position to make a pass attempt. He and I were pretty consistent with neither one of us making any mistakes. In a series as competitive as this sometimes one little mistake is all it takes. Skeen didn’t make any this weekend.
Another Ggreat weekend of racing in NASA Southeast. Chuck’s incident was the only negative of the weekend for Spec E30 but luckily he was not injured and the damage to the car is only cosmetic.
Sat. I qualified 4th. I thought I had a much better lap in qauli than I actually did. Travis was pretty impressed with himself for out qaulifying, but that didn’t last long I eventaully got past Travis and Robert and set off after Skeen. It didn’t happen though and I finshed second.
Sunday I qaulified 2nd and got a good standing start. It wasn’t enough though to clear Skeen going into turn 1. I spent the rest of the race looking at his rear bumper and could never quite get in a position to make a pass attempt. He and I were pretty consistent with neither one of us making any mistakes. In a series as competitive as this sometimes one little mistake is all it takes. Skeen didn’t make any this weekend.
kchildre wrote:
[quote]… I don’t know, but I think it was the Beertech sticker put on overnight that’s the true culpret.
Great field, great racing, great time…[/quote]
That’s such a load of :pinch:
[size=4]There is NO BeerTech curse![/size]
cars wrecked long before BeerTech came along.
As for RA… Great place.
Hot.
But great.
Can’t wait to go again.
There is always a Beertech sticker on the wrecked cars because there are Beertech stickers on ALL of the cars! :whistle: If you’ve ever turned a wrench on your own car then you’ve earned a Beertech sticker.
I really did enjoy going down to GA and beating up on some of the locals. Next year you guys are going to be for trouble when I replace the "mesquito fogger" with a real engine. Hell, maybe I’ll even be able to keep up with Cullen on the straights. . . . somehow I doubt it though.
It does need to be noted that on Sat. Mike "the Machine" Skeen out qualified the field by about 1.5 seconds. He was in the 47’s while the rest of us were tenths apart in the 49’s.
I finished seventh both days and was suprised by my pace. I didn’t expect to be that far up and am very happy with two top ten finishes. Friday T&T’s are easily worth the $200. I had more seat time in one day than I had all weekend, even after the grenading Porches and wall seeking Time Trialers stole some of our session time.
Thanks again to the Southeast Spec E30 guys for a nearly incident free weekend. Its amazing to me that these 20 cars can run an entire weekend without contact while other regions are having such a hard time with it. I’m pretty much sold on running the entire SE schedule next year. . . Sorry Jim and Craig :laugh: .
JP - bring it, I’ll be down at RRR waiting.
Longest straight in the SE (heck maybe the world). Plenty of opportunity for me to make up time lost in the turns.
(Does this count as RRR smack talk? We may need a new thread).
Does anyone have the results from yesterday? Not being in the top 10, I’m curious how I finished and what my best lap time was.
Mylaps.com does not have the NASA race posted as far as I could tell.
Usually takes a day or so before mylaps has the times.
Looking forward to Roebling and another great weekend of racing with the SE.
No Jagger Bombs! :sick:
I had a blast on and off the track this weekend and look forward to the next event. Congrats to JP for passing me yesterday; he had his rig dialed in and made a great slingshot move on I-85 when I got boxed in by some lap traffic. "Well played."
Saturday’s race I didn’t get any video footage, but there wasn’t much to see. Once Damion got up to second I had a fairly comfortable lead and just had to make sure he didn’t get within dive-bombing range.
Yesterday he was right there from the start and could’ve pounced on any mistake. He was really strong into T7, but I could get a better drive off the corner to get down the straight. Same in 10a; he was dynamite on the brakes and would close right up to my bumper, but my later apex would pull me up the hill and down through T12 to gap him a little. I managed to get a little breathing room with the first of the lap cars and then the race ended under caution.
Here’s the Sunday race video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8268898639987526212
Mike, I learn from your videos each time you post them. Thanks very much for the free race lessons. I think for most of us, the difference in our speed verses yours can be observed from the braking zone of 1 through turn 3.
Chuck, I understand completely how you must feel today. Please let me know if I can do anything to help you get your car ready for Roebling. Thanks for posting the results.
If there is ever a red flag thrown at an event for an accident in the paddock, my money is on beer/maltliquor tech involvement.
Just wanted to go on record with that ground breaking observation.
