Basically, bring your driver's license (people actually show up without this sometimes!), your entry fee, and your car. Probably the most important thing you can do is clean out the car beforehand, and make sure anything loose is tied down tight -- batter, amplifiers, speakers...there's always someone trying to get through tech with a 5-lb amp in the rear footwell secured only by a couple of wires running to the rest of the sound system. We're not concerned if it's high-tech or pretty...I've seen batteries tied down with clothesline. As long as it works, it's OK. One guy showed up a couple months ago with a beer bottle serving as a coolant overflow tank...a hose clamp secured it to the frame. We passed it.

Definitely come out by 8, just so you can look around and talk to people -- ask for help, and you'll have as much advice as you can absorb.

 

I might come out and hang

 

Awesome. Expect me and my brother!

I go to school there so I am at least familiar with the place.

 

good event guys! I definitely had a good time and was happy I ended up coming out.

not a fan of the "run all of your runs right away" type of event (in vegas, we shoot for no more than hour long run groups, break for lunch, then do it all again in the afternoon).

Although I heard complaints about the chinese food (within reason, no one knew it was chinesefor the lunch and not everyone likes chinese)... but i thoroughly enjoyed it and wanted to go back for seconds.

The classes were pretty simple enough... I liked the simplicity of that. Although I read the ruleset and stuck myself in E, i was moved to F, running against a SCCA prepped AS S2000 on r-comps on the fronts... thankfully I was able to get moved back to my proper class and was only 0.02 from taking first.

Course was complex to walk, but easy to drive. The only difficult part was the dip in the middle of the entrance into the "skidpad".

Great event overall! a 40+ second course on a pretty small venue.

 

The event was awesome! The chinese food was also great.

I have pics of everyone that went the first two groups (I had to work 3rd), so if you would like some pics PM me which car you were driving and I will upload them for you!

 

Every club has to make these decisions. Our club has chosen to focus on "Fun" (the F in FAST is for FUN, seriously!), and to us that means more time autocrossing. While shorter work sessions are nice, running 6 groups rather than 3 means 3 additional group changes, which take at least 20 minutes each. That means we either have to stay an hour later (which nobody wants to do, and we have enough trouble getting people to stick around to help clean up), or if we want to finish in the same amount of time, we have to take that hour out of our competition time. We'd rather do 6-8 runs than 4-6 runs.

Anyway... that's the way we do it, some other clubs (including the local SCCA guys) often do split groups, especially when they have a very low turn-out. You can pretty much do anything and be done early when you have less than 30 cars!

Jack was moved to class F when it was thought he was going to run on street tires. He opted to run race tires on the front, and was reclassed accordingly. F is a street-tire class.

 

Glad you enjoyed the event, guys. Thanks!

We've been trying to get a little more creative with the lunches - we've done Greek, Cuban, BBQ, now Chinese - we tried to get a variety to satisfy most, understanding satisfying all is difficult.

The guy on half-R-comps was Jack Neely, who, I think, moved himself to his usual class, either A or C - I don't recall.

SPC is a small venue, with a couple of wicked bumps - we avoided the worst of them (and the sewer grates ).

Hope y'all will join us again!

edit: thanks for offering pix. I ran last. Bummer for me.

 

I had a lot of fun..
Thanks for letting me over-steer I met a lot of cool people, and the chinese food was unexpected but AWESOME.

 

And, here's some video's. I know, I know the aspect ratio is still screwed up. Hey... they're free.
Todd's S2000
Todd's S2000

Rydell's Subi
Rydell's Subi

John's Kart
John's Shifter kart

Mary's Stalker
Mary in her Stalker

Mark's Fiero and Tim's Vette
Mark's Fiero and Tim's Vette

Loren's Yaris
Loren's Yaris Tripod

Carl's Miata
Carl's Supercharged Miata

Jack's S2000
Jack's S2000

Scott in Stalker
Stalker at SPC

 

I owe you guys $5 for lunch