Just to be clear, even if you get to the gate between 7 and 9, you still must have preregistered on for the event (listed on Automotive Events - Competition and Racing Calendar with Online Registration) to be included on the access roster. We have to turn that into the airport authority at least a week in advance -- if you're not on the roster, we can't let you in. Airport security policy -- we're bound to comply with it if we want to hold events there.

 

All of this is spelled out clearly in the "DETAILS/REGISTRATION" link in the 1st post. Sorry you wasted your gas.

"In addition, the access gate will only be manned for a limited time -- please arrive no later than 9:00 and plan on staying for the day."

"Airport officials require us to submit a list of attendees in advance, so online regsitration is mandatory. Registration will close 4 May. ALL PARTICPANTS, INCLUDING ENTRANTS, CREW, AND SPECTATORS MUST PRE-REGISTER PRIOR TO 4 MAY TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE SITE!"

 

Thanks to Muddy for the instructional rides.
Sorry for the Big Spin Out at the finish line,
But you are riding with a guy named "Spin Out",
you shouldn't really be surprised.

I would have placed 8th if I could have kept it clean on that last run.
Still I'm super happy with my placement.

Why such a short course?
I go to Brooksville for 1 min plus runs.
I can get 45 sec runs at Z-hills, and people are running 35s at Brooks?

Word was right about the short shut down box.
Especially with the Miata parked at the end of it, and a hot finish.

 

Well, we could say we did it on purpose to make sure we got a lot of runs in and done early enough for people to go have dinner with mom...truth is it just turned out that way...no reason.

edit: We need a chair for our June event at B'ville, if you'd like to volunteer for the job, you do get to design the course!

 

^^ ...was addressed on the FAST forum. There were two Corrados. At least one of them was classed wrong (race tires). It'll get fixed.

 

The VR6 Corrado is correctly classed in E (modified, street tires, under 3 liters). The Corrado SLC moves to A (modified, race tires).

 

I've never taken part in a 60+ second course at SPC, Zephyrhills, nor Brooksville. 52 seconds... sure. Once. Over a year ago.

Next time we'll add 5 obstacles that get speeds down to 5-10mph each and have a 52 second course!

It was a *fast* course, not necessarily short. Braking was extremely minimal, but had to be very aggressive where it existed.

 

The courses at our SCCA events are usually in the 50-55 second range. Not hard to do at Brooksville.

This course had a nice flow to it and was super fun. Who designed it? We need to borrow them.

 

There is a ton more room at Brooksville for longer courses. But a longer course may mean a couple of extra stations to be manned. We ended up with more people than I thought we would for Mother's day, so a longer course may have been fine, but expecting a small turnout, better to have more peple than not enough. Short course is the safer bet.

 

It was designed initially by Russ Morgan (not on TR, BlackEyeII @ NASIOC and FAST Forums). He's no longer with us (moving to Oregon this weekend) unfortunately.

I tweaked it 20% then handed it over to Steve Frank and Ron Croft.

Then AScoda, myself, and others tweaked it a tiny bit when we set it up at the site.