Infineon Season Opener Feb 14-15th...

#41

Will,

Great lookin, can’t wait to see it in person!

Now for the weather…

SHORT TERM (TODAY-SUNDAY)…
AS MENTIONED ABOVE…THE INITIAL BAND OF PRECIP WILL MOVE THROUGH THE
REMAINDER OF THE REGION EARLY TODAY. AS THIS HAPPENS…PERIODS OF
MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE…ESPECIALLY OVER THE
HIGHER TERRAIN. NO LIGHTNING HAS BEEN DETECTED WITH THE STRONGER
CELLS. THERE WILL LIKELY BE A BREAK IN THE ACTION AND POSSIBLY
A PEAK OF SUNSHINE BEHIND THE DEPARTING FRONT. HOWEVER…THE
UPPER LOW WILL CONT TO MOVE EASTWARD ALLOWING MORE COLD AIR TO
OVERSPREAD THE BAY AREA. AS THIS HAPPENS…THE OVERALL AIRMASS WILL
DESTABILIZE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND SNOW LEVELS WILL CONTINUE TO
DROP CLOSER TO 2000 FEET. THEREFORE…AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE
POSSIBLE. BY TONIGHT…PRECIP COVERAGE/INTENSITY WILL DIMINISH AS
THE UPPER LOW AND ASSOCIATED TROUGH MOVE EASTWARD. ONE FLY IN THE
OINTMENT SO TO SPEAK…WILL BE THE POSSIBLE BREAK WITH PRECIP AND
EASTWARD PROGRESSION OF THE UPPER LEVEL FEATURES IMPACTING SNOW
TOTALS. THE BREAK IN THE ACTION CAN ALREADY BE SEEN ON IR SATELLITE
IMAGERY AND A DISTINCT WESTERN EDGE ON AREA RADARS. THE WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY MAY NEED TO BE UPDATED DEPENDING UPON THE BREAK.

ONE CHANGE WITH THE 00Z MODEL GUIDANCE WAS TO DRASTICALLY SLOW DOWN
THE NEXT SYSTEM. PREVIOUS RUNS HAD THE NEXT SYSTEM MOVING INTO THE
CWA BY LATE SATURDAY AND NOW THE LATEST RUNS DELAYS IT UNTIL ALMOST
SUNDAY MORNING. EITHER WAY YOU SLICE IT…A DEEPER SYSTEM APPEARS
TO BE DIGGING MORE OFF THE COAST SATURDAY AND SLOWING DOWN. ONE
THING IS FOR SURE…SNOW LEVELS WILL RISE LATE SATURDAY AS SW FLOW
DEVELOPS AHEAD OF THE NEXT SYSTEM. AFTER 00Z SUNDAY…ISENTROPIC
LIFT AT 295K BEGINS AND REALLY GETS CRANKING BY 12Z SUNDAY. EXPECT
PRECIP TO RE-INTENSIFY DURING THIS TIMEFRAME. SNOW LEVELS SHOULD BE
HIGH ENOUGH THAT WINTER WEATHER WILL NOT BE A CONCERN EXCEPT OVER
THE HIGHEST PEAKS. IF MODEL QPF IS CORRECT…MUCH OF THE REGION
COULD SEE 0.5 TO ALMOST 2 INCHES OF PRECIP ON SUNDAY. LOCALLY
HIGHER AMOUNTS OF 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE TERRAIN FAVORED
LOCATIONS. IN ADDITION TO IMPRESSIVE RAINFALL…WINDS INCREASE
DRAMATICALLY. MODEL GUIDANCE HAVE 50 KTS OR GREATER AT 925MB AND 25
TO 30 KTS AT THE SURFACE. IF THIS CONTINUES…THE NEXT SHIFT MAY
HAVE TO ISSUE A HIGH WIND WATCH SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY. ATTM IT IS
JUST A LITTLE TOO FAR OUT BEING IN THE 4/5TH PERIOD TO ISSUE HIGH
WIND WATCH. THE STRONG WINDS AND MODERATE RAINFALL WILL LAST MUCH OF
SUNDAY AS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW/TROUGH REMAIN OFF THE COAST.

#42

Bennett,

Are you a pilot?
That weather report looks like it’s from a FSS weather report.
In any case that is a very comprehensive report.
Should be a blast no matter what the weather.

Scott C

#43

Ya…maybe I’ll call into Lockheed and ask for a full VFR briefing from say, NAPA to Fresno tomorrow morning, record it to a WAV file, and we can count how many times “VFR Flight Not Recommended” comes across.

But hey, on a day like tomorrow and Sunday, the briefer will be bored stiff…nobody flyin nowhere.

#44

CRAP!!! Testing has gone horribly and we have decided to leave the new car at home :frowning:

Thank God for Walter’s backup car…

See you guys soon…

#45

Race results are up on mylaps: http://www.mylaps.com/results/showevent.jsp?id=388622

#46

I need the team drivers from both days and I’m assuming this is the normal config without 7a. Thanks.

#47

Wheres all the video’s?
Mine, the one I got, totally sucked and after I downloaded it on Vimeo it was even worse.
ADAM?
AJ?

Scott C

#48

Elephant4 wrote:

I think this is how team drivers broke down:
Pointsix - Carl Chiu
Brimstone Dynasty - Donny Edwards
101 Motorsports - Dan DiTrapana Sat., Doug Johnson Sun.
T.Lo Celebrity Driver - Tommy Lo
Pointsix Racing 1 - Will Faules
BTM Motorwerks Racing - Andy Chittum ???
J & F Racing - ??? I think this was MacKenzie Johnson Sat., and was his dad on Sun. (don’t recall his name, sorry!)

People with fancy race teams, please correct me if I’m wrong.

Scott, my videos should go up tonight or tomorrow morning, depending on how slow my laptop wants to be. I’ll probably crank out the spec e30 ones, then do PTE ones afterwards.

#49

Thanks Adam!

Looks like to me you got all the BIG TEAM members correct.

Scott

#50

Hey everybody,

Great job this weekend! I had an absolute blast, even though it was a pretty frustrating weekend for me.

I love how competitive this class is turning out to be. Just think, in two races we have had 3 different winners!!! I won saturday then got dq’d which would have made Andy the winner, but he was dq’d so Brenden won!!! Then Andy won Sunday!!! haha

Congrats Andy and BTM in your first showing in the new SE30!!! I loved our door-to-door racing on Saturday and can’t wait for some more!!!

I feel horrible about crashing on Sunday in a car that was soooo good all weekend.

Looking forward to fixing the 37 car next week and getting it back out there. Thank God it wasn’t as bad as many T10 wrecks I’ve seen.

If you guys go to facebook Steve from Head On Photos got some awesome pics of us this weekend.

#51

Good times guys, congrats to all of you big member teams, those that finished high enough or lucky enough to win something, Adam for the well deserved hard charger, and the rest of us that didn’t fit into one of the above categories but managed to not bend any metal or concrete (or coincidentally set any lap records). As they say at kids soccer games - we’re all winners :stuck_out_tongue:

#52

Glad to see you back out there AJ.

Thanks to everyone for making it a fun weekend.

#53

Great weekend guys (except for my engine problem and Brenden banging up his car in the rain in Sunday’s Group A race). If you would like to see your car in the rain here’s a link to Dean Thomas’ (1st place SM) incar video on Sunday:

www.molaps.com/videos/20090215_race.wmv

Dean was 4 seconds faster in the wet than our fastest E30 so his video is a nice lesson in wet weather driving. Dean was also very complimentary about the on-track behavior of the E30 racers and said that he heard positive comments from the SM racers in his group. Good job guys! :slight_smile:

Random drawing winners coming soon…stay tuned!

Cheers,
Scott

#54

We can return the compliment. I got passed…ahem…a few times by Miatas in the rain, and near as I could tell they all did a nice job with traffic and making clean passes in good places.

Tommy thanks. It’s good to be racing again, and good to see you this weekend.

#55

Thanks for the vid Scott. I thought that might be the miata that caught up to me on the last race lap. I tried to put a little more heat on for the last lap on Andy after battling the whole race to get around him, and pitched it sideways up to turn 2. Then I remember drag racing a miata around until turn 6 when he simply could just turn faster - and all on video. :stuck_out_tongue:

It was a good season starter with everyone, and while Sunday was miserable in the paddock I had a great time running a race in the rain for the first time ever. That was a blast that I wasn’t initially thinking would be as fun as it first appeared to be (see: anxiety). And with so many new cars and people, it looks to be one good season for all I am sure.

Sad to see Brenden get his car torn up. Hope he gets it fixed.

Cheers all.

#56

What an up and down weekend. Saturday was awesome although I made some mistakes during the race with car set up and driving…Here is a video of Saturdays race…http://www.vimeo.com/3270694

Sunday was fun until the PTE race…:angry: . The car is at the frame shop for an evaluation right now…

#57

Glad to hear - good luck with the eval!

#58

My Spec E30 videos from this weekend are up on vimeo at http://vimeo.com/album/66858/format:detail

I’ll probably upload the 1 PTE video I have at some point too.

#59

Here’s my engine problem…#2 Cylinder

#60