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| CentralCoaster | (socal) Anybody tried Corvette Challenge? | ||
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Looks like fun.
http://svc.speedventures.com/fly.aspx?layout=rules&series=192  As far as I can tell it's a HPDE that you probably pay a little extra for to be included and your best laps are ranked with others. They have a points system for mods/classing and they make a season out of it. I think I'd have zero points as none of my mods are points worthy! Lol, I'm guessing though that the guys running in this aren't the same type running embarrassingly slow in their C5/C6 around the track at some of the HPDEs I've done, so my wee little 240 hp would have to work harder. |
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| BillH | Re: (socal) Anybody tried Corvette Challenge? | ||
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Kinda like our (SCCA) Club Trials except all Corvettes and it looks like they have open passing where Club Trials is only on the straights with point by. You wouldn't think that the slow C5/C6's would enter. But ya never know, kinda scary if there's open passing because the slow guys usually lack the situational awareness. Our Club Trials guys are faster and generally better than our HPDE groups but, while the guys running at the front have it together, from midpack back, the passing thing seems to confuse them. I did work a similar event this year, my buddie put on a 3 day event here with open passing in the "A" group, it went very well with no problems at all. But these were very experienced NorCal guys with damn,damn fast cars. http://www.corvetteguruforum.com/modu ... p?topic_id=17819&forum=55 Hell, you should enter one, while I don't think there will be some embarrassingly slow C5/4's there, I'll bet some of them will only be in your rear view mirror. |
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Posted on: 2012/12/3 14:05
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| CentralCoaster | Re: (socal) Anybody tried Corvette Challenge? | ||
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I checked the lap times and I would be competing for 2nd to last. Not much love for a stock motor C4 in their points system likely due to lack of interest.
They space the cars out but the competitive timing could make it dicey. It's bad enough now trying to get past these guys putting through the turns that smoke me getting onto every straight. It basically would leave me trying to pass only by underbraking them. I'll get some more HPDE under my belt. I pass some of the C5/C6 drivers but the ones that know what they are doing will leave me in the dust. Still beats racing evos and s2000s. |
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Posted on: 2012/12/4 6:27
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| BillH | Re: (socal) Anybody tried Corvette Challenge? | ||
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Coulda had a C5 for the cost of your kitchen remodel?  But last year, I coulda had a C2 for the cost of my remodel.  Fkin' priorities,Passing under braking is dicey only because you have to have confidence that the guy you're overtaking isn't an idiot. Part of my job at the track is to watch the Club Trials sessions from the flag stand. I look for exactly what your sayin'. If a driver is really holding someone up in the turns and walking away on the straights, I'll have him black flagged so I can have a quick discussion with him in the hot pit. It's really unfair for the overtaking driver. Happens a lot in the HPDE portions of our events too, but I'm always in a car, so I tell the driver that he has the option to do a drive thru to let the slower drivers get a half lap ahead of him. |
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| BillH | Re: (socal) Anybody tried Corvette Challenge? | ||
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BTW, R U SouthCoaster???
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| CentralCoaster | Re: (socal) Anybody tried Corvette Challenge? | ||
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I know nothing of what you speak.
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| BillH | Re: (socal) Anybody tried Corvette Challenge? | ||
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