Great write-up Bry, and congrats moving up to 4th in our yearly points battle.
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Great write-up Bry, and congrats moving up to 4th in our yearly points battle.
We have had 3 more events over the last 3 months and one more event coming before the finish of the season here in San Diego. We have had some really good courses the last events!!! For me personally if I can really floor the car during a run its a good course and I have been able to in these events.
So in september, we had what I think Was the smallest showing with 6 competitors. I believe their was a few other events going on that a few of our regulars went to.
heres some pics of the course.
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The results from that event with Alcino for the Win!
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No car pics from the event but heres my incar video of my first run that I spun out on.
https://youtu.be/-TNDwWxYMB0
So the points after that last race stacked up like this
1. Alcino 699.6
2. Tom 686.4
3. Richard 683.8
4. Bry 678.0
5. George 675.9
6. Ian 675.1
7. Jeff L. 666.5
8. Charles 663.7
9. Mike 660.0
The next event in October had one of the best straights that I have ever had in an autocross but at the end it had a really tight turn into the finish that proved problematic for me.
Alcino codrove Charles 2nd gen camaro and really handed to all of us with the power of the ls equipped camaro. Again this was a small turn out because of some other events going that some of the regulars went to.
Here's the map of my course walk from the previous practice day where its ran in reverse of the champ day.
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And the result
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Here's how the points stack up after this event
1. Alcino 799.6
2. Tom 783
3. Richard 780
4. Bry 774.1
5. George 772.3
6. Ian 767.7
7. Charles 760.7
8. Jeff L. 755.9
9. Mike 752.1
So we get to November. More of the regulars showed up and we had a field of 13 drivers. Still a few usual suspects were MIA rumored to be at brand GG event.
Chad came down from L.A. and showed us how it was done in his camaro fresh from the Optima finally in Vegas. Again a great course. This course and the previous course were on the East lot at Qualcom. Its the smaller lot and occasionally has had problems with the "ditch" crossing. The course designers seem to have figured out how to set up great courses that mange the crossing very well this year. This course had some great sweepers in it.
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Mike Young took lots of great pics of the cars that came out. Here's some of the eye candy.
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The CAM C group has diminished over the year. The 2 regulars made it out.
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I did get a screen grab of my car. I think I have gone to far with the stiff sway bar in front and no sway bar in the rear.
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I didnt get a pic of the results and cant figure out a clean way to post the pdf of them. Heres a link to the results http://sdrscca.com/solo2/results/201...n-web.htm#CAMT
Here they are in raw text
CAMT - 'CAM-Traditional' - Total Entries: 13 Trophies: 3 Club Times Total Time Diff.
1T CAMT 268 Chad R 68 Chevrolet Camaro SCNAX 52.577 52.392 52.517 52.504 52.392 [-]0.929
2T CAMT 47 Tom K 83 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 TART 53.922 53.464 53.321 53.740 53.321 +0.929
3T CAMT 314 Bryant M 71 Ford Maverick SCNAX 56.630+1 54.440 53.554 55.146+1 53.554 +0.233
4 CAMT 760 Alcino A 71 Ford Maverick TART 56.456 54.723 53.875 54.035 53.875 +0.321
5 CAMT 414 George R 83 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 TART 56.181 54.852 55.715+1 54.119 54.119 +0.244
6 CAMT 1013 Randal F 90 Ford Mustang LX 57.860 56.722 55.432 54.919 54.919 +0.800
7 CAMT 56 Jeff L 72 Chevrolet Chevelle TART 55.995 54.978 56.128+1 55.192 54.978 +0.059
8 CAMT 673 Charles D 73 Chevrolet Camaro SCNAX 66.667+4 55.264 57.695+1 57.096+1 55.264 +0.286
9 CAMT 826 Kevin R 65 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SCNAX 56.053 55.487 55.929 56.180 55.487 +0.223
10 CAMT 165 Mike Y 65 Ford Mustang SCNAX 58.865 57.187 56.502 56.292 56.292 +0.805
11 CAMT 302 Ian S 91 Ford Mustang DCCSD 61.362 60.374 59.519 58.150 58.150 +1.858
12 CAMT 1268 Jenni R 68 Chevrolet Camaro SCNAX 62.020+1 58.559+1 89.726+7 58.555+1 58.555 +0.405
13 CAMT 919 Kraig C 71 Chevrolet Camaro 73.371+2 66.428 62.672+DNF 63.511 63.511 +4.956
Here's a video of Jenni's run.
https://instagram.com/p/BNDcCuVlHeQ/
The points after this event stack up like this.
1. Alcino 899.2
2. Tom 881.2
3. Richard 874.4
4. Bry 871.8
5. George 869.5
6. Ian 858
7. Charles 855
8. Jeff L. 850
9. Mike 845
They are getting tight for 3,4,and 5th positions. One race left in December.
It has been announced that CAM Challenge West is coming to San Diego Qualcom Stadium in 2017!!!!!!!!
This is really cool. Come race with the biggest local CAM T group in the nation and see why we get great turn outs.
Heads up, Qualcom has a sound DB limit of 93. This is not hard to make. The popular solution is to make what we call a chicken wire burrito and stick it in the tail pipe. You get some chicken wire (their is a Lowes next door to Qualcom) and roll it up and shove it in. Use some wire strung up to a exhaust hanger to hold it in and that usually is enough to pass sound. You dont have to do it till you have broken the sound limit. At this years match tour that was held at the Q, their were no sound infraction. Dont be afraid of the sound, come to San Diego and race muscle cars!!!
The other rumor about Qualcom is the surface sucks. Well it could be better but its the same surface every other person racing there races on so its an even field. A really cool thing about the Q is that the parking lot has some significant elevation changes that makes for some changeling and fun off and on camber turns and some hill climbs and descents.
The 2016 CAM challenge at Fontana was a blast. It was so cool hear around 60 different V8s racing auto cross all day!!! Its worth coming any distance to race in San Diego. The days of Qualcom stadium are numbered and this may be the last national event here. Dont miss this chance to race at one of the biggest autocross lots.
Great to see you keeping this thread alive Bryant! I can't wait for the CAM challenge!
I enjoy reading them and I am looking forward to the CAM Challenge.