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Sean O'Gorman
05-30-06, 07:15 AM
I ran at the SCCA Peru National Tour over the weekend in a friend's WRX in the STX class, and my co-driver uploaded this video compilation of my 3 Saturday and 3 Sunday runs. Not my best driving, but I never drove the car prior to this weekend. A word of warning, I drop an F-bomb at about 6 minutes in, as I hit a cone early on my last run. :(
http://photos-539.facebook.com/ip005/v31/107/48/53700499/n53700499_30101539_6247.jpg
Video: http://videos.streetfire.net/video/wm/799fc459-89be-434a-91f7-647df2d7c4f9.htm
racer2c
05-30-06, 11:06 AM
You went all the way to Peru to drive around some cones in first gear? Expensive! :)
10th place is the 9th loser. ;) :p
:D
Sean O'Gorman
05-30-06, 11:39 AM
You went all the way to Peru to drive around some cones in first gear? Expensive! :)
It was second gear, and it is about more than just the racing. The social aspect is pretty cool too. You get to meet racers from all over the country and alot of them have some pretty nice setups. It is always fun when the guy you just corner worked with takes you back to his trailer and has a cooler full of beers.
Also, I learned that French Canadians can drink like no other. I went out drinking with these 4 racers in our hotel until 3 AM, when our run group was due to start at 8 AM. Somehow I advanced a position that day. I felt like a regular Al Unser Jr. ;)
It is always fun when the guy you just corner worked with takes you back to his trailer and has a cooler full of beers.
I :saywhat: 'ed until I saw the part about the beer.
Sean O'Gorman
05-30-06, 11:42 AM
I :saywhat: 'ed until I saw the part of the beer.
Shut up, there were women at their trailer too. They just have no interest in 10th place drivers. :( :laugh:
The social aspect is pretty cool too. You get to meet racers from all over the country
So you guys call yourselves racers? Cool! :gomer: :D
Spicoli
05-30-06, 12:03 PM
Shut up, there were women at their trailer too. They just have no interest in 10th place drivers. :( :laugh:
Ank knows what that feels like.
:p
Ank knows what that feels like.
:p
beer all day and a fifth of Beam later, there won't be much of anything coherent going on :laugh:
Spicoli
05-30-06, 01:18 PM
beer all day and a fifth of Beam later, there won't be much of anything coherent going on :laugh:
you couldn;t make your way thru a fifth of beam if your life depended on it. :rofl:
you couldn;t make your way thru a fifth of beam if your life depended on it. :rofl:
Au contraire, I emerged victorious! (aside from the whole O'Gorman thing, but if someone fails to recall 2 hours of conversation, did it ever really happen?) And 24 hours of misery thereby ensued :laugh:
racer2c
05-30-06, 02:35 PM
What kind of rubber is on the WRX? It sounded like you could have used some stickier rubber.
How do you think your times would have compared in your MR2?
How long do they give you to familiarize your self with the track?
What was the fastest car of the weekend?
Why didn't you drive the MR2? Was that class too crowded?
racer2c
05-30-06, 03:28 PM
Do you left foot brake? If not do others that you know of?
Why didn't you drive the MR2? Was that class too crowded?
he hasnt owned the Mr. 2 for a couple months.
O'Gorman now goes scammin' for hos in the 4 door Integra. It's the new hotness.
he hasnt owned the Mr. 2 for a couple months.
"Yeaahhh, did you get that memo?"
"Yeah, I got it. It's just that I forgot." :o
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RacinM3
05-30-06, 04:36 PM
Nice vid, Sean, looked like fun.
Hate the way those flat 4 scooby's sound, though....
Sean O'Gorman
05-30-06, 05:17 PM
What kind of rubber is on the WRX? It sounded like you could have used some stickier rubber.
How do you think your times would have compared in your MR2?
How long do they give you to familiarize your self with the track?
What was the fastest car of the weekend?
The WRX had Hankook Ventus RS-2, which is a max performance street tire. In STX you can only run tires with a treadwear of 140 or higher, which typically means the Hankook, the Falken Azenis, or the Kumho Ecsta MX, which is what I run on my Integra.
The MR2 probably would've been similar in performance to the WRX, but I think I would've done better in it because I'm more familiar with the handling characteristics of a RWD car. I've never autocrossed anything FWD or AWD prior to this year, and thats all I've done so far. The top car in E Stock (the class the MR2 was in) was .4 faster on Saturday, and .6 faster than the top car in STX (also a WRX). In stock classes you can run race tires, but the only mods you can make are lighter wheels (same width and diameter as stock), shocks, exhaust, and front sway bar. STX has wider, larger wheels, shocks, springs, swaybars, intake, header, exhaust, bigger brakes, some ECU tuning, racing seats, etc but is limited by street tires and the fact that the vehicles in the class (WRX, Mini Cooper, Integra Type R, etc) are not true sports cars.
You got to walk the track Friday evening and Saturday morning, and again during the break on Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately for me I raced first thing in the morning so that break was useless for me. They changed the track Saturday evening and you got to walk it again that night, and then Sunday morning. You also got a track map. One of my biggest problems running these events is that locally, we run on much smaller lots with alot less to memorize, and alot more runs to do so, so learning these huge airport runways takes alot of practice that I don't have yet.
The fastest car of the weekend was a C Modified, which is the autocross equivalent of Formula Ford:
http://www.autoxphotos.com/gallery/National%20Solo/2006/Peru%20Tour/MarkAndy/Sat%20Heat%205/IMG_3086.JPG
The fastest road car was this C6 Z06, which was about 5 seconds slower across both courses than the CM.
http://www.autoxphotos.com/gallery/National%20Solo/2006/Peru%20Tour/MarkAndy/Sat%20Heat%205/IMG_3034.JPG
Why didn't you drive the MR2? Was that class too crowded?
I sold the MR2 in January. I loved that car but it was too unreliable for daily driving, and had problems with the rev limiter kicking in at 5500 rpm that no one could seem to solve. I sold it to another autocrosser and he is having a blast with it. Right now I've been autocrossing my stock Integra just for kicks, and its not nearly as competitive or fun, but by driving a slow car at local events, I'm learning a ton about going fast, the results just don't show that yet. Come September I'll have another MR2, a hardtop or sunroof '93 model, since they are 200 lbs lighter than what I was running. Ignore Ank and Stu and all them, those cars are seriously fast and seriously cool.
Do you left foot brake? If not do others that you know of?
I don't left foot brake simply because I haven't taken the time to learn it yet. I really should, especially when driving a boosted car such as the WRX. When I drove the F Mod (autocross equivalent of a Formula 500) last year, I obviously had to left foot brake, but that is about it.
EDIT: Photo credit goes to Mark Andy of Steel Cities SCCA. More photos from this event can be found at autoxphotos.com
Ignore Ank and Stu and all them, those cars are seriously fast and seriously cool.
For me to POOP ON!
Dr. Corkski
05-30-06, 06:15 PM
Where was the beach volleyball?
Come September I'll have another MR2, a hardtop or sunroof '93 model, since they are 200 lbs lighter than what I was running. Ignore Ank and Stu and all them, those cars are seriously fast and seriously cool.
I dont think I've ever said its not fast, just that people were making fun of you saying it was a chick car, and you did in fact buy it from a woman.
Spicoli
05-30-06, 06:55 PM
I dont think I've ever said its not fast, just that people were making fun of you saying it was a chick car, and you did in fact buy it from a woman.
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Troooth!
[/wilke]
Sean O'Gorman
05-30-06, 08:15 PM
I dont think I've ever said its not fast, just that people were making fun of you saying it was a chick car, and you did in fact buy it from a woman.
Get the story straight. The man who owned it since it was new died, and his mother inherited it after his death and didn't sell it for another two years, a period during which she put less than 2,000 miles on it. Yeah, a real chick car.
Get the story straight. The man who owned it since it was new died, and his mother inherited it after his death and didn't sell it for another two years, a period during which she put less than 2,000 miles on it. Yeah, a real chick car.
so you bought it from a woman?
Sean O'Gorman
05-30-06, 09:16 PM
so you bought it from a woman?
Hey, at least I didn't have to pay for someone to fly down to Nashville with them to drive the car they bought back home because you couldn't drive a stick. :p
Hey, at least I didn't have to pay for someone to fly down to Nashville with them to drive the car they bought back home because you couldn't drive a stick. :p
Still beats paying what the Cleveland dealers were asking for my car. :thumbup:
Sean O'Gorman
05-30-06, 09:38 PM
Or you could've learned how to drive stick in teh first place...
BTW, I think I just set some sort of record for being the first person to inadvertantly derail his own thread.
Hey, at least I didn't have to pay for someone to fly down to Nashville with them to drive the car they bought back home because you couldn't drive a stick. :p
mancard. revoked. :thumdown:
Hey, at least I didn't have to pay for someone to fly down to Nashville with them to drive the car they bought back home because you couldn't drive a stick. :p
Ziiiing! :rofl: :rofl:
mancard. revoked. :thumdown:
oh ok mr. jetta.
Sean O'Gorman
05-30-06, 10:38 PM
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oh ok mr. jetta.
I'm secure enough in my manhood, that and the fact that I KNOW HOW TO DRIVE A STICK! :gomer:
:laugh:
(besides, Cork had one first, go bitch at him, oh wait, he knows how to drive stick too :gomer: )
Dr. Corkski
05-30-06, 11:07 PM
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I KNOW HOW TO DRIVE A STICK! :gomer:
and so do I.....now. ;)
Spicoli
05-31-06, 10:26 AM
sure thing cheech, now remind me, who was riding shotgun all across Colorado in the p**** car? :gomer:
awesome. i got to sit in the front, and it was free. I appreciate the 2-your-door service as well.
Was also fun to see you get pulled over in a ****ing parking lot. :rofl:
how's you happy little mexican friend. he was well-mannered and smelled nice.
:wave:
If you were sober enough to recall, it was pulled over in front of Skaven's driveway on the street, and all thanks to your l337 navigational skillz :gomer:
Jeremiah says he misses you.
Spicoli
05-31-06, 10:43 AM
If you were sober enough to recall, it was pulled over in front of Skaven's driveway on the street, and all thanks to your l337 navigational skillz :gomer:
Jeremiah says he misses you.
:smooch:
this thread is reaching elite status. :thumbup:
This ain't nothing, Nancy.
So when's your boyfriend going to teach you how to heel & toe? You'll need to file form IRL-497.5 to reinstate your mancard at such time.
racer2c
05-31-06, 11:00 AM
this thread is reaching elite status. :thumbup:
I don't know...there's somthing very
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about it. :)
Not that there's anything wrong with that of course.
afraid to taste the rainbow?;)
http://www.jimcarson.com/photo2004/images/Skittles.jpg
actually, this now reminds me of when coolhand first showed up and thought I was fruity, and I played along, and then he was creeped out. That was allsome :laugh:
This ain't nothing, Nancy.
So when's your boyfriend going to teach you how to heel & toe? You'll need to file form IRL-497.5 to reinstate your mancard at such time.
I've screwed around with it but my 14 W shoe makes things a little difficult.
Sean O'Gorman
05-31-06, 12:28 PM
I've screwed around with it but my 14 W shoe makes things a little difficult.
First you are too fat to autocross, now your feet are too wide to heel & toe?
actually, this now reminds me of when coolhand first showed up and thought I was fruity,
We all still do. :gomer: :p
:runs:
-Kevin
First you are too fat to autocross, now your feet are too wide to heel & toe?
pardon me for wanting to focus on getting back in healthier shape before I tried autocrossing.
besides, you said stupid crap like how you wanted to remove your air conditioning from your car to lighten it up, what better way to lower the weight of your car than to lose 20-30 pounds?
Sean O'Gorman
05-31-06, 12:52 PM
pardon me for wanting to focus on getting back in healthier shape before I tried autocrossing.
besides, you said stupid crap like how you wanted to remove your air conditioning from your car to lighten it up, what better way to lower the weight of your car than to lose 20-30 pounds?
The fastest person I've ever seen autocross is like 300 lbs. He runs a school that every top driver has been to.
What better way to lose weight than being out in the sun course working?
The fastest person I've ever seen autocross is like 300 lbs. He runs a school that every top driver has been to.
What better way to lose weight than being out in the sun course working?
um, perhaps actually working out in some fashion rather than sitting on your arse adjusting cone positions? :gomer:
um, perhaps actually working out in some fashion rather than sitting on your arse adjusting cone positions? :gomer:
yea. i need to get back to my pre-girlfriend weight (shes actually lost weight since we've dated, making me feel bad, the nerve she has :flame: ). i doubt being a cone replacement engineer will do that.
:rofl:
Spicoli
05-31-06, 01:30 PM
yea. i need to get back to my pre-girlfriend weight (shes actually lost weight since we've dated, making me feel bad, the nerve she has :flame: ). i doubt being a cone replacement engineer will do that.
:rofl:
jeeebus, how fat are you guys? :saywhat:
jeeebus, how fat are you guys? :saywhat:
I'm 220 and want to get back down to like 190, and then maybe lose more.
She weighs what she should weigh.
Wheel-Nut
05-31-06, 01:49 PM
Size 14!? Seriously? How tall are you?
Size 14!? Seriously? How tall are you?
6'0"
my dad was a little shorter than me but he still wore a 13.
and it depends on the shoe for me. sometimes its 13, sometimes 14, sometimes Wide, sometimes normal. all depends.
personally I wish I could regularly find a 13.5 Wide. :D
I've screwed around with it but my 14 W shoe makes things a little difficult.
In this case, it's not true what "they" say about big feet. Or so the little lady says...
6'0"
my dad was a little shorter than me but he still wore a 13.
and it depends on the shoe for me. sometimes its 13, sometimes 14, sometimes Wide, sometimes normal. all depends.
personally I wish I could regularly find a 13.5 Wide. :D
So when'd you first do business w/ BALCO & Victor Conte?
So when'd you first do business w/ BALCO & Victor Conte?
my feet are big, not my head. i dont wear a 9.5 size fitted hat like barroids.
Spicoli
05-31-06, 02:31 PM
I'm 220 and want to get back down to like 190, and then maybe lose more.
She weighs what she should weigh.
http://www.rugbyfootball.com/gallery1/richard_simmons_2.jpg
get in shape. god loves all his creations!
If you are waiting to lose wait before trying autocross, you'll never do it. That's why I'm not waiting to get a real car before I try autocrossing. Me and my 1998 Mercury Tracer are going to compete in the Northwest Ohio Region SCCA auto-x on June 11, my auto-x debut. If I like it and decide I want to try it again, then I'll worry about getting something a little less, umm, boring. But I'm not going to let it stop me from trying. :gomer:
Spicoli
05-31-06, 08:49 PM
1998 Mercury Tracer
:rofl: :laugh: :rofl:
:rofl: :laugh: :rofl:
What do you drive?
Spicoli
05-31-06, 10:33 PM
What do you drive?
:gomer:
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and
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and
http://www.fondear.com/Todo_Barcos/Gamas/Jets%20Marivent/Challer180_03.jpg
:rofl: :laugh: :rofl:
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You must be rich!!!
So Spicoli,this is what you drive,
http://i7.ebayimg.com/05/i/06/87/71/ec_3.JPG
And this is your brother and his wife and the band they are in,
http://www.bornagainfloozies.com/images/liveatradioradiofull.jpg
And they are the ones that sing this song (http://www.bornagainfloozies.com/audio/THE_BORN_AGAIN-Small_Penis.m3u) aren't they?
Gee whiz,that's a coincidence,isn't it.
:rofl:
http://i7.ebayimg.com/05/i/06/87/71/ec_3.JPG
because everyone knows about the formidable and deadly terrain of Gomerville, it ranks right between the Badlands & Moab :gomer:
Spicoli
06-02-06, 11:29 AM
So Spicoli,this is what you drive,
http://i7.ebayimg.com/05/i/06/87/71/ec_3.JPG
And this is your brother and his wife and the band they are in,
http://www.bornagainfloozies.com/images/liveatradioradiofull.jpg
And they are the ones that sing this song (http://www.bornagainfloozies.com/audio/THE_BORN_AGAIN-Small_Penis.m3u) aren't they?
Gee whiz,that's a coincidence,isn't it.
Yes. My brother and I are not exactly the same. I always thought that song was odd. :cry:
btw - this is the same brother who spent 15k on a 5 year old used *****ox honda minivan. :shakehead
whatever, its his call.
Spicoli
06-02-06, 11:30 AM
because everyone knows about the formidable and deadly terrain of Gomerville, it ranks right between the Badlands & Moab
I run over Goldblums all day long. :gomer:
I run over Goldblums all day long. :gomer:
it's Yoong, get it right. :p
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