STF UPDATE
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Lee Chhit leading in a 2011 mini and Andres in 2nd in his mazda 2 1.2sec back after 2nd runs.
3rd runs start soon
run 3 1st drivers update:
Andres down to a 46.5 and only 9 tenths out sitting 2nd. Scott Sandowski up to 5th (last trophy spot) with a 47.5. Only 5 tenths from 3rd and thousandths from 4th. Josh Elk with a 48.2 is up to 7th about 7 tenths out of the trophies. Daniel Chhit is in 3rd and has a run still. Joe Austin is having cone trouble and has one left. Look for him to move up to the trophies.
Daniel went slower and Joe had more cones. So STF is in the books.
Is Josh Frodo on here? I see Andres is in 2nd still after his 3rd run, but still many people yet to take their 3rd run. Kick some ass tomorrow and good luck Andres!
Well...the next 2 weeks will be Mazda3 domination. Adam in Blytheville and then me in college station.
Chin up.
I didn't sell Chhit my stuff. The millers in Washington have my brake pad and rear trailing arms though. Their car should be a front runner. I need to get my HP up though.
It will be interesting to see the overall PAX numbers. I only know Sam Strano as one of the top National drivers there; who are some others? The top STF car paxed a 992 against Sam.
Also STF essentially tied the best STC car raw for day one (day two missing at the moment), and was eight tenths of a pax second better than STS for the weekend. Not sure of the level of competition among that group, don't know the names or histories.
Some interesting comparisons initially. Need more events, drivers and courses to assess farther.
Wish I coulda been there again this year, but too much life right now. Not sure I'll get a race in til May...hopefully be at the Atlanta Match Tour. Lots of car work to do before then too.
Btw, Chhit brothers were racing an STX MS3 for the last couple years.
Cool, I'll be sure to swing by and say hello to Preston. Btw Justin, I'm planning on hitting Spring Nats at Lincoln and also one of the Wilmington events so we'll be able to hang and talk shop before Nats.
Here is the new Blytheville layout for the Pro this year....gonna be massive courses!
Here's a video of last year for comparison from the top of my car in RTF. I'm getting pumped!
I hope they put the start in the middle and one goes left and the other right. I'd have to have courses that long and skinny with a middle start it allows for something other than slaloms
Yes they are going down the middle and each course is going out left and right respectively. Very good setup. Very big and fast out there. Should be fun tomorrow.
It feels good, I took around 10 runs on the practice course and basically didn't need to change a thing. The car feels well balanced and is able to rotate nicely on this concrete. All I need to do is drop front psi more. 38-39 was too much and the inside of the front tires were actually getting significantly hotter than the middle and outside. Gonna drop to 35 psi tomorrow and I think that will help and make the car even better.
Unfortunately no pics today, I'll try to video at least one set of runs tomorrow
Well bringing home the gold will be a tall order. The Chhit bros will be tough plus Andres and some other good drivers..... Salenius....ect. A top 3 trophy spot would make me very happy especially at this early stage in the game. This is my first event of the year so probably going to be a little rusty. This course is going to be quite fast and the header/cat/tune not yet installed would be nice to have for the extra power and raised rev limit. Oh well, do the best with what we got
Yup, already ran into Joe. I'll tell'em howdy for you tomorrow. Also shot the shit with Andres for awhile and was good to see him. Saw Chhits from afar, but haven't talked to them yet. I'm sure I'll get to meet them tomorrow in grid.
No it's not, the car is freaking out intermittently on course and dash lights galore come on. I lose power steering and abs brake system is acting very funky. It appears to be some sort of electrical problem. Checked all my ground connections and they look good. The battery is old though and may be bad....Andres loaned me his extra so we're gonna give it a shot for tomorrow and hope for the best.
Really to bad too because otherwise the car is working great :/ Hopefully get it fixed and salvage this weekend tomorrow.
When I turn the car off and back on while moving by popping the clutch it does kill the SWAS and gives NO power assist. Is it something like that? Like the car is loosing all power.
It's sort of like the car does into limp mode and all the dash lights up like a X-mas tree mid run. ABS light, Power Steering light, E-brake light, CEL......
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