tomfree
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- Tom
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- Gaithersburg, MD
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- '22 Supra 3.0 Premium
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It's that time again! I'm leaving for OLOA on Thursday afternoon. The car is unchanged, other than the tires. I'm running the Bridgestone RE71RS this year, vs the Conti ECS02 that I ran last year. I'm about 90% ready to go right now, and that last 10% can be done in about 10 minutes. Can I skip out on work? Puhleeeeze?
For those who have followed along in previous years, I've blogged/vlogged on a team FB page that I'll be using again: https://www.facebook.com/midenginecrisis . The page itself has been rebranded for my co-driver's team name, Unicorn Racing, but it still the same old URL. For those of you that aren't FB users, the videos will be posted on my YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEhv2VF__Qdw9oKejsrWwXg
My co-driver flew out from CO last weekend and we ran a Saturday DE with SCCA at good old Summit Pt to give him some time in the car before the event. I ran into @Rocksandblues for a second as well. It turned out to be very OLOA-like weather, as we had everything from cold and wet to reasonably dry in the span of a few hours. In the really rainy session with plenty of rivers and ponding, the RE71RS was excellent. In my final dry session, I was starting to get comfortable pushing the car on a drying track, but the reality is that we're not coming anywhere close to what the tires can do in the dry. We'll mess around with pressures a bit more to find a happy place.
Here's the schedule:
5/4 - Wet Skidpad @ Tire Rack HQ (South Bend, IN)
5/5 - Motorsports Park Hastings, Time Trials 1 & 2 (Hastings, NE)
5/6 - High Plains Raceway, Time Trials 3 & 4 (Deer Pk, CO)
5/7 - Hedge Hollow Raceway, Time Trials 5 & 6 (Garden City, MO)
5/8 - Natl Corvette Museum, Time Trials 7 & 8 & autocross (Bowling Green, KY)
5/9 - Pitt Race, Time Trials 9 & 10 (Big Beaver, PA)
5/9 - Quaker City Drags, Low ET and bracket races, (Salem, OH)
5/10 - Putnam Park Raceway, Time Trials 11 & 12 (Greencastle, IN)
5/11 - Dry Skidpad @ Tire Rack HQ (South Bend, IN)
For those who have followed along in previous years, I've blogged/vlogged on a team FB page that I'll be using again: https://www.facebook.com/midenginecrisis . The page itself has been rebranded for my co-driver's team name, Unicorn Racing, but it still the same old URL. For those of you that aren't FB users, the videos will be posted on my YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEhv2VF__Qdw9oKejsrWwXg
My co-driver flew out from CO last weekend and we ran a Saturday DE with SCCA at good old Summit Pt to give him some time in the car before the event. I ran into @Rocksandblues for a second as well. It turned out to be very OLOA-like weather, as we had everything from cold and wet to reasonably dry in the span of a few hours. In the really rainy session with plenty of rivers and ponding, the RE71RS was excellent. In my final dry session, I was starting to get comfortable pushing the car on a drying track, but the reality is that we're not coming anywhere close to what the tires can do in the dry. We'll mess around with pressures a bit more to find a happy place.
Here's the schedule:
5/4 - Wet Skidpad @ Tire Rack HQ (South Bend, IN)
5/5 - Motorsports Park Hastings, Time Trials 1 & 2 (Hastings, NE)
5/6 - High Plains Raceway, Time Trials 3 & 4 (Deer Pk, CO)
5/7 - Hedge Hollow Raceway, Time Trials 5 & 6 (Garden City, MO)
5/8 - Natl Corvette Museum, Time Trials 7 & 8 & autocross (Bowling Green, KY)
5/9 - Pitt Race, Time Trials 9 & 10 (Big Beaver, PA)
5/9 - Quaker City Drags, Low ET and bracket races, (Salem, OH)
5/10 - Putnam Park Raceway, Time Trials 11 & 12 (Greencastle, IN)
5/11 - Dry Skidpad @ Tire Rack HQ (South Bend, IN)
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