What to do in Nov

#1

NASA-SE is at NCCAR. NASA-FL is at Miami. NASA-MA is at Summit. Not sure that any of those fire me up. Maybe I’ll do the Chin DE at RA. I note that there’s a DE at Barber also.

Anyone have any good ideas for what we ought to do in Nov?

#2

mid-nov chumpcar at wilkesboro and trackdaze at vir (including one day on grand)

#3

Who is running the DE at Barber? You forgot an event Ranger and it is pretty close:

Event #1262: November 19-20, 2011 - Memphis International Raceway, Millington, TN

I will probably try and run that event as long as the Memphis event in July goes well. Somebody needs to go and give Jim a run for his money.

#4

Work permitting, I’m in for Memphis in November…

#5

There is the PBOC event at Barber Nov. 19-20. It is a dual weekend. They will have a DE and have 2 30 min sprint races and a 90 min enduro. If you have never run with PBOC before then let me tell you they are a great group to run with. It is a mixed start and there will be everything from radical’s to us so you will have to drive in your mirrors from time to time but its a good time and a great learing exp. I will be their for that event and would love to have another Spec to run with. Usually I am the only one their for that event.

#6

Now that sounds interesting.

#7

ran with pboc at winterfest. great group. i’ll be down at barber in oct for o’fest. might leave my car down there for this event.

#8

The PBOC races at Barber are always a lot of fun. I’ve raced with them last two years, but this year I’ll be at Memphis that weekend.

#9

PBOC’s calendar seems to be hosed up. I can’t get info on their Nov event.

#10

If you decide to show up I will install a rear facing camera so you can watch video of yourself after the race. :woohoo:

#11

The American Road Race of Champions at Road Atlanta…best road racing in the country, and entries from all over the country. CB

#12

I will one day make my way out there for that event.

Chuck - dude you’re fast at RA: 1:43.801

What makes your ETA so quick?

#13

If you decide to show up I will install a rear facing camera so you can watch video of yourself after the race. :woohoo:[/quote]
You could kick my ass in every race for the next 5yrs and the post race beer would still taste the same.

#14

[quote=“cwbaader” post=57624]The American Road Race of Champions at Road Atlanta…best road racing in the country, and entries from all over the country. CB[/quote]It’s to bad that SpecE30 is so uncompetitive in SCCA.

1:43? Dang.

#15

Having raced with Chuck at ARRC (me in an ITA Integra), I can tell you it’s mad torque and the proper final drive ratio. That car going up the inclines makes it look like it’s all downhill! I know it made me want one.

#16

Kgobey…actually my best lap was in March of this year, 1:42.475, and I’m still 1.5 seconds off the record!!

For the SE30 guys, you can be surprisingly competitive if you go to a 4.10 or 4.27 gear and Hoosiers. Chuck

#17

If you decide to show up I will install a rear facing camera so you can watch video of yourself after the race. :woohoo:[/quote]
You could kick my ass in every race for the next 5yrs and the post race beer would still taste the same.[/quote]
That was my attempt at smack talk. lol What type of beer do you like and I will bring a couple to cheers with you. My treat.

#18

If you decide to show up I will install a rear facing camera so you can watch video of yourself after the race. :woohoo:[/quote]
You could kick my ass in every race for the next 5yrs and the post race beer would still taste the same.[/quote]
That was my attempt at smack talk. lol What type of beer do you like and I will bring a couple to cheers with you. My treat.[/quote]

It’s not that your smacktalk was weak, I’m just no fun as a smacktalk target.

Long winded explanation attempt follows. It’s hard to put this in a way that avoids sounding incredibly arrogant. When I was young I was all hot to show what I was made of. What I found is that I can be hard-as-woodpecker-lips for a while, but the guys that are really hard seem to be able to maintain it forever.

When you are in front of your guys, be it 30 or 160, they draw strength from you when the conditions are difficult. It is up to you to maintain a facade of stoic undiminished strength and resolve no matter the fact that you’re worried sick that you’ll screw up, not slept in days, carrying 110lbs on your back, and not been dry and warm for weeks. Even tho it sucks the life out of you, you have to maintain that facade of granite. As long as you show that “it’s” not getting to you, everyone else will do their best to show that “it’s” not getting to them either. But if you show weakness, in seconds the whole unit will turn into self-pitying whiny teenagers.

The guys that were genuinely hard seemed, well, genuinely hard. For me, it was just kinda my “hard act”. I could maintain it, but the cost was high. I had wanted to prove that I was as hard a SOB as anyone, but what I found is that there really are hard men and I wasn’t in their class.

After retirement I formed a new philosophy. Instead of seeing how hard I could be, I want to see how comfortable I could be. I want to have a lot of fun, drink good beer, flirt with everyone’s girlfriend, run some hot laps, help folks when I can, come up with fine one-liners, tell good stories, and laugh a lot.

Smack talk was part of the old philosophy. It’s got no place in the new one. While folks are talking smack, I’m in the back of the crowd chatting up their girlfriend.

Re. beer. Am always happy to help someone with their beer, provided it’s not some mass-market weasel piss.

#19

[quote=“cwbaader” post=57641]Kgobey…actually my best lap was in March of this year, 1:42.475, and I’m still 1.5 seconds off the record!!

For the SE30 guys, you can be surprisingly competitive if you go to a 4.10 or 4.27 gear and Hoosiers. Chuck[/quote]Just got off the phone with Jeff Ireland - hehehe… I would have to spend too much… but man - you got me thinking - haaaard.!

#20

[quote=“kgobey” post=57653][quote=“cwbaader” post=57641]Kgobey…actually my best lap was in March of this year, 1:42.475, and I’m still 1.5 seconds off the record!!

For the SE30 guys, you can be surprisingly competitive if you go to a 4.10 or 4.27 gear and Hoosiers. Chuck[/quote]Just got off the phone with Jeff Ireland - hehehe… I would have to spend too much… but man - you got me thinking - haaaard.![/quote]Don’t forget that in addition to that 4.10, you’ll need intake, exhaust, 0.040-over, better suspension… For i-motor cars, we class as ITS, which is faster than ITA. Yes, SE30 can run within a couple or 3 seconds of a prepped ITA car. Call it 4-5 seconds off ITS pace.

In the classes I run, that ain’t “competitive”.

PS - With the wet noodles we have for springs I’m not sure Hoosiers are much faster than RA1s, maybe 0.5-1.0 second. I had to change my lines at Road Atlanta pretty significantly to keep from picking up the inside rear in 7 and 10b.