The season winds down. There is now one solo2 event left, and the four drifting events in September. I’m actually looking forward to the seasons end so that I can park the 86, and start the work I have planned for the winter. What work is that? I won’t say… these things have a tendency to not happen on schedule.
Last weekend marked the CNAC Western Championship. Weekends like this make me love auto-x so much. Ryan and I co-drove the 86 in DSP expecting some serious competition from Warren in his Celica, Chris in his Impreza, as well as from a 240sx that was very fast at CNAC last year. DSP was the biggest class, but unfortunately, no one gave us much trouble.
Kudo’s must be given to Reijo for the course. What a great course, with flow, a number of different elements and a couple of choose your way slaloms that absolutely boggled us. Ryan and I were within tenths of each other for three runs. Then he got a tip to run the slaloms opposite the way we had been. The result was a 2 second drop in time, and FTD. Shocking. I coned my last run, my only attempt to try the new route, and thus ended up 2 seconds back. Ugly… not a great result on my birthday but still 1-2 in DSP. And can I really be so sad when my car gets FTD?
Day 2 was better for me. It rained. It was cold. I love it wet and slippery. Ryan coned every run. I came into the stop box too hot and my last run and hit the end cone. Sad… as my 58.0 would have been FTD. The next fastest time was a 58.6. So… because of my last run, Ryan ended up beating me overall for the weekend. After day 1 he was 1.9 seconds ahead of me. I had 1.8 seconds on him day 2 because of my cones. Sad… it could have been near 4 seconds.