Peter youre the one who wants to get one SOOO BAD!!!

you guys has too much of teh jello-C's.....

hehe

Peter- arent you close of closing the deal with the wifey on ALLOWING you to get a STi?

 

Next SCCA events are in 1.5 weeks!!!

April 19th (Sat) - Prosolo (drag race start, then autoX)
April 20th (Sun) - Solo (normal autoX)

*link to a ProSolo vid: http://youtube.com/watch?v=u7V5_EyeWrM

They're both down in Packwood...it's a bit of a drive, but at least some of the roads are fun!

Who's going??

 

^sweeeeeeet

i'm going to the Saturday one

where do i sign up?

u going peter?

 

I'm going to both (got a hotel for Saturday night in Packwood).

sign up should be on www.nwr-scca.org/solo about a week before the event
*I'll let you know when I see their website updated

 

hotel?

how far is packwood? *edit, a little over 2 hours from my house, shouldn't be to bad, i don't imagine its gonna run into the dark

what time does it run till?

 

Packwood is near Mt. Saint Helens...

the basic schedule for ProSolo is most likley to be something like:
7:30-8:30 registration and Tech
8:45 - Driver's meeting
9-9:30 1st car on course
ends around 5pm-ish
*this will be my 1st time going to a ProSolo...the format is different than normal AutoXs, so I don't know exactly how it's gonna be. Maybe PDX_Racer can chime in

 

so if its gonna be over 5ish, whats with the hotel? or are u getting a hotel for the the night before so that u don't have to drive in the morning?

 

I'm going to the event on Sunday too.

I usually show up around 6:30-7am for events b/c I have to prep the car (Change tires, set tire pressures, walk the course,...), since I'm towing my tire trailer, I'll likely leave around 4am --> so getting the hotel on Saturday night prevents me from doing this 2 times!

 

oh i c, for some reason i was thinking that the one on sunday was somewhere around here

 

Well... I dropped Kathleen at NWARC an e-mail for the April 24th event. Lets see if there's still room. First350, you coming?

 

OK, the basic competition format for a National ProSolo is:

* Run Saturday morning in car number order -- four runs, alternating left and right (or right and left) and then you're done.
* Run Saturday afternoon in position order (1st vs. 2nd, 3rd vs. 4th, etc)
* Run Sunday morning in position order
* Your fastest time from the left course and fastest run from the right course are combined.
* Sunday afternoon is challenge rounds (1st in classes, anyone else within a certain percentage of the first place time are in super challenge, there's also a ladies super challenge, and a bonus challenge). Runs are handicapped ("dial-in"), with the intention that you both cross the finish line at the same time. If you run faster than your "dial-in," then your new "dial-in" will be 50%(?) more of the difference, e.g. if your dial-in was 30 seconds and you ran 29 seconds, then your new dial-in will be 28.5 (IIRC the percentages). It gets more interesting when you have a slower car class compete against a fast car class -- the slower car gets a SIGNIFICANT head start over the faster car.

For the regional ProSolo the numbers are smaller, so IIRC we still have at least two rounds + the challenge rounds. It's just that everything has to fit into a single day.

 

so if i go on saturday only, i'm getting only 5 runs?

 

PDX_Racer was talking about the National ProSolo Tour...this next weekend is the Regional ProSolo (it's a bit confusing, but basically this one if a 1 day event and the National ProSolo Tour is a 2 day event).

From looking at last years data, it looked like everyone got 8 runs, plus any extra runs from the eliminations runs. The # of runs will depend on how many people show up...more ppl, less runs.

 

Sorry, each "run group" at a ProSolo is 4 runs -- two runs on each course.

So, if we have two "run groups", you'll have 4 runs on each course -- 8 runs total. Plus, if you make the challenge rounds, you'll have two runs for each round (one on each side).

 

http://www.nwr-scca.org/solo/pro.htm

it's on the website now....

ProSolo (Saturday)
http://scorekeeper.wwscc.org/register/pro2008/

SCCA #2 (Sunday)
http://www.autocrossscorekeeper.com/register/nwrscca/

 

hmmm so far away.... only 35 bucks tho for a non member tho..tempting..

 

Once you see the Packwood site, you'll be saying, "how many times are there events there?"

 

you mean this:
-HUGE lot
-nice surface
-covered pit area (great for rain or sun)

 

Just for comparison, the entire Everett area -- course AND paddock -- would fit INSIDE the course area at Packwood!

 

so i'm trying to register and its asking my for the class of my car, its a stock 07 Z, what class and index would it be in?