Auto slalom and lapping with Car Crew at Shannonville Motorsports Park for 2017

[Lynxis]

Round 5 is in the books. My best timed run:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ikn08ARs4[/ame]

Alternate angle:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDlt_ZoMFTU[/ame]

Same placement as always, first in super stock, 3rd overall behind WRX (86.0) and Cayman GT4 (only 85)

There will be an awards ceremony in Sept. They are also talking about a possible for-fun event some weekend in Sept but haven't made any solid plans yet. I'll update this thread if that changes.

[Lynxis]

Heads up that we will have a season ender, for-fun, autoslalom event on Saturday, September 16th on Nelson. Registration opens at 9am, drivers meeting at 10am and on course by 10:30am so there is plenty of time for people to get there if they have to travel a bit.

Format as follows:
9am Registration opens
10am drivers meeting
10:30am first car on course
12 noon lunch break and Driver Dynamics awards for the year
1pm continue slalom
3pm event over

Cost is $55 as usual.

I'll also mention that Sergio Bidinost is the course designer for Driver Dynamics auto-slalom events. For anyone who attended this years CASC-OR regional events 1 and 2 in Picton, Sergio was the course designer for those courses so if you enjoyed the layout at Picton this year, you should check out the Driver Dynamics events at Shannonville!

[Lynxis]

Just the reminder that Thursday the 14th is the last lapping event of the season for Driver Dynamics and the season ender autoslalom will be on Saturday morning. I'll be attending both events.

[Lynxis]

Was at the lapping event tonight. New personal best on Fabi by a long shot. The HUD indicates 1:15.2 but I knew as soon as I saw it that was really optimistic because my next best was a low 16s in the same session and there was no way it was over a second difference. So I checked the actual video using frame advance and timecode and determined it is actually 1:15.9.

Video from my phone mounted on my windshield:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FqrBNA0c-c[/ame]

Alternate angle from my helmet mounted Gopro:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPhu9vkzSpQ[/ame]

Shortly after posting my best lap of the evening, I spun out. Phone angle:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYnaiKyHAfM[/ame]

Gopro angle:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOImw001PBs[/ame]

I'll be at the Saturday event. Hope to see someone there!

[Lynxis]

Season ender event came and went.




The day was broken up into 2 events, morning and afternoon with 8 runs for everyone for each event so 16 runs in total. The events were still timed so we competed amongst ourselves but it did not count towards the series championship.

The morning event ran out onto Fabi a bit because it was available and it was held like normal. Here is my best run from the morning, an 83.5:

Gopro angle:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaZmkSIc5gY[/ame]

Phone angle:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3En78k2uqM[/ame]

In the afternoon, Fabi was in use so the course was shortened. We also did 4 person teams based on results from the morning. The 2 fastest cars were paired with the 2 slowest cars and the next fastest was paired with the next slowest until the teams were filled then the teams fastest times in the afternoon were added together to make up the teams time.

I was 2nd fastest again with this run:

Gopro angle:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9kAGdKW2YE[/ame]

Phone angle:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lfUDlG2Fk8[/ame]

Overall, our team lost. There was only ~4 seconds separating the top 4 positions but over 10 seconds separating the lower 4 positions so despite having the fastest and 2nd fastest on our team, because we were paired with slowest and 2nd slowest, our teams time overall was last place and the middle teams won.

Anyways, that's the end for this year. The series will run again next year and we are hoping for some snow slalom events provided the weather co-operates which it didn't this year. I'll do another thread once details release.

Personally, my final event of the season will be this coming weekend, October 1st, on Shannonville full track.