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The big lesson of this year for me is to never give up on a run.  My fastest run on each course included big mistakes.  In the past, I might have given up on the run, either letting up or just hitting a cone rather than taking emergency action.  Autocross, even at the highest levels, [...]

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Although, I’m not that pleased with the final result, I was pretty happy with the way the day turned out.
First off, BIG thanks to Team Neon driver Mike O and ex-codriver Chris Franson for walking the Left course with me the night before we ran. I think I had the course fairly well figured [...]

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Well, I’ve tossed away another Nationals. I’m mired in the cheap seats (12th, out of the trophies, about 1.3 seconds back.)
This was a weird one. My first one was bog ass slow, as I drove the Kumhos like they were Hoosiers, and just didn’t push them hard enough until the last 1/3 of the [...]

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More exciting Nationals action, and more fun times, although I’m in game mode now, so the drinking and lechery is on hold.  Here’s a quick update on how the local Steel Cities folks fared.

Sammy was again just ridiculously good today. His closest competitors blew a turbo seal or some damned thing – they each got [...]

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Morning arrived way too early, and I woke up in one of those still drunk/hungover states.  I had to hustle over to the site because my work assignment is covering the ESP and BSP classes for Sportscar, and of course, they ran in the first heat.  It took some coffee and cigarettes, but I managed [...]

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Many apologies for the lack of posts.  I’ve been burning the candle at both ends.  Nationals is always like this for me – I run into people I haven’t seen for a while, I meet new people, there are all sorts of cars I want to watch, extra-curricular activities in the evenings, etc…when you are [...]

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Franson and I slept in and then treated ourselves to breakfast at Denny’s. Today is a pretty relaxed day for those of us running on Thursday/Friday. We are heading over to walk the courses this afternoon – hopefully the crowd will thin out in the middle of the day.
I have to say that [...]

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