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**bcrx7** · July 28, 2002, 06:34

Good job guys/gals specially ppl in SP since your cars are not Made for SCCA SP class and probably are not as fast as other SP.

GOOD LUCK and HAVE FUN.

**Jeff Loh** · July 28, 2002, 07:15

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Cliffy:
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CSP - but her times would have her leading CSPL by a big margin....-c.<hr></blockquote>

Douuhh!

ef · July 28, 2002, 16:10

Results are up and several of our guys and gals did very well. I'm particularly impressed with Hyedie for running in the open class a gutsy move. She would have cleaned up in the ladies class but took the hard way and tried to beat the guys. Good for you Hyedie.

Ernest

http://www.scca.org/amateur/solo2/na...e/results.html

**bcrx7** · July 28, 2002, 16:32

Good job guys and gals

**Jeff Loh** · July 28, 2002, 16:39

Congratulations to the trophy winners. Wow, Chris Chu's SM2 win by 0.005s! Interested in hearing from the Tour rookies on their impression of the big show.

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**fc-racer** · July 28, 2002, 20:27

Hey guys,

You'll have to wait for the full story, but I'd just like to congratulate all the VCMC members that brought home trophies in this top calibre event. With 240 competitors from all over the USA, some from as far away as Texas and Arizona, it was great to see 20 VCMC members attend!

We had in alphabetical order (t=trophy):
Gerald Chen SM
Joe Cheng AM
t1 Alex Chiu CM - 1st
Bernie Chiu SS
t1 Chris Chu SM2 - 1st
Terence Chu DSP
t5 Darren Foo SM - 5th
Hyedie Hashimoto CSP (OPEN CLASS)
t3 Farzaan Kassam SM - 3rd
John Haftner AM
t1 Mike Leuty ES - 1st
Carol Leuty ESL
t1 Elise Leyland BML - 1st
t1 Gary Milligan AM - 1st
Marlon Peng SM
t2 Marc Sasso EP - 2nd
Ken Seto SS
Chris White CM
Blake Wilson CM
Andre Yeu SM

Out of the 20 competitors that attended, eight brought home a trophy!!! That is a fantastic result that once again proves, objectively, without a doubt, that this region and this club have some very, very fast drivers.

Congratulations to all that attended, whether you brought home a trophy doesn't matter, what matters is that you raced against the best and you brought home that experience. You can now build from that and go even faster.

For me, it was a very tough weekend with saturday being a near disaster. I either made a mistake walking the course or I paid too much attention to the course map (they made changes to the course) and not enough to the course itself. I DNF'd my first run and spent the next two figuring out where I went wrong. Sunday, I was back on form, setting the 2nd fastest time in the class behind the monster S4. It was tough to figure the surface out, very slippery in some areas and pretty sticky in others. Driving on ashpalt requires a slightly different driving style I think.

One thing that makes me happy is that our car was 400 lbs overweight for the class and the winning car's front brakes and shocks alone cost the owner $14,700!!! My combined times were good enough to be second in E/SP down there so I'm relatively happy with the result.

fc-racer

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**bcrx7** · July 28, 2002, 20:43

Man I've seen some of the SCCA sites and these guys get the best parts available to them. They don't cut any corners or anything, if they can do brake upgrade, they buy the biggest and most expensive upgrade available to them. That's just insane.

Although Joe says that "your car is fast, the driver is slow", I think most of our members would be happier if their car were ready for SCCA classes they were at.

Good job everybody

**N2O4U** · July 29, 2002, 06:08

Although I am "conehead" for coning all 6 of my runs this weekend, I went down primarily to watch and learn what's involved at that level.

Let's talk about how the fast guys (Glen Hernandez in the ESP Camaro, amongst many others, including Farzaan!) went flat out thru the back half on Day 2, barely lifting and doing some amazing pre-turn/sliding on the asphalt. Can this be applied effectively to Boundary Bay? Obviously it works on Asphalt in reducing times.

**Neon Racer** · July 29, 2002, 06:30

Great event - everyone should definitely go down to see the caliber of driving down there.

Drivers there can pull times out of stock cars (ex: Miatas and Type R's) that would beat most SS and SP cars up here.

The surface there is asphalt but it still is very grippy - I definitely learned a lot about the surface (as we've almost always run on concrete). Tire wear is close to neglible compared to BB considering I put 16 runs on them over the weekend.

And for all you VW owners thinking of selling their GTi's, check out which car won DSP. :P

**Jeff Loh** · July 29, 2002, 07:15

Out of curiousity, how many of you who went down were Velocity graduates, and did you think going through the school prepared you in stepping up the level of competition?

**Terence** · July 29, 2002, 09:12

I agree with NeonRacer the grip there is not bad at all(but thay do change at different area), but interestingly my car rotate more than at BB(which agree with Mike L prediction). That car feels good, it's my driving that is the problem of claiming any tropy. I didn't do well the first day(5th), but after I changed the front camber back to -3deg on Sunday the car was good with little understeer. But I screw up all 3 runs with cone. Well, I thought if I slow down more on certain places to get a clean run it would only get me 3rd or 4th total. Like most top drivers say, if it's not 1st place, there is no point. So, I decided to go all out on Sunday and the last run on Sunday I hit the most stupid cone at the last corner(which I think it won't cause me any extra time to not hitting that cone). Otherwise, I would be 2nd overall in DSP(instead of 5th out of 10 overall with a best run that has a cone). I think the main problem for me is the mental preparation for my run(especially I always used to the luxury of 4 runs).

I did have tons of fun and I will definitely return next year.

thanks for all the help from VCMC and Mike L,

Terence

**Miata Girl** · July 29, 2002, 09:30

WHAT AN EXPERIENCE!!!!!! All I can do is talk about National Tour!

i'll start a different thread with a full report tomorrow!

the best thing about this trip was that everyone really worked together as a team and we ALL made sure to watch the VCMC runs! man Terence you should have heard us when you hit that last cone! the announcer even heard us and said 'and much to the disappointment of the crowd Terence Chu hits a cone.'

i we should ALL go to Canadian Nationals in Red Deer next year and also go back to Bremerton!

thank you for all the words of encouragement Ernest, Cliff and Omid!

**BaD KaRmA** · July 29, 2002, 11:40

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Terence:
I agree with NeonRacer the grip there is not bad at all(but thay do change at different area), but interestingly my car rotate more than at BB(which agree with Mike L prediction). That car feels good, it's my driving that is the problem of claiming any tropy. I didn't do well the first day(5th), but after I changed the front camber back to -3deg on Sunday the car was good with little understeer. But I screw up all 3 runs with cone. Well, I thought if I slow down more on certain places to get a clean run it would only get me 3rd or 4th total. Like most top drivers say, if it's not 1st place, there is no point. So, I decided to go all out on Sunday and the last run on Sunday I hit the most stupid cone at the last corner(which I think it won't cause me any extra time to not hitting that cone). Otherwise, I would be 2nd overall in DSP(instead of 5th out of 10 overall with a best run that has a cone). I think the main problem for me is the mental preparation for my run(especially I always used to the luxury of 4 runs).

I did have tons of fun and I will definitely return next year.

thanks for all the help from VCMC and Mike L,

Terence<hr></blockquote>

Couple regionals ago, Joe told me that I can't back down, I have to go for it every run. I did the same thing as you, and only regret is hitting the cones, at least we won't be thinking "what if I had gone for it...". Next year we'll bring a better prepared S/M car, as well as better prepared driving hopefully. Think Cary in the S4 in S/M pulled one of the fastest prod car times on sunday. Interesting to watch national level drivers, speed maintenance throughout the course is phenomenal, I'm going need to work on that.

Thanks for all the help everyone who went down this weekend. It was a fun roadtrip.

**fc-racer** · July 29, 2002, 11:53

Darren, you drove really well again this weekend setting a time faster than mine on Saturday. Joe and I were talking about making some road trips a regular annual "events" for VCMC. We were thinking about making Canadian Nationals West, National Tour, Knox Mountain Hillclimb and US Nationals events that we'd organize groups to go down to.

There were several drivers that came to mind when we were down there that would have done well. Guys like Yarko, Hedwig, Damon, Cary, etc, etc, all would have done well down there. We need to get more people out to these events. Your driving will change as a result of seeing these guys drive. Many of you comment on how my driving style is different; I learned that driving style from Bill Buetow from the NW region back in 1995/96 and the rest came from karting. Seeing these guys drives makes a difference (it's the "if he can do it, I can do it" way of thinking).

We'll all chat more about this at the next meeting. I think the tech session we should host will be to talk about what it's like to go to a major event, the thinking behind it, the preparation, basically, what it takes. Anyone interested in that?

fc-racer

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