The first CSCC Solo 2 of the 2003 season was held in January,
on Super Bowl Sunday. Despite the game, we had a huge turnout
of nearly 350 drivers. Along with my H Stock colleagues, I
ran in the dark. As a reaction to the turnout, the club
organizing the February event, GRA, chose to close the
autocross to drivers without a CSCC points card or SCCA
membership. As a result, the turnout was low by local
standards (well under 300 drivers) and the event went
smoothly.
I was scheduled to run in the first group, so I was pretty
sure it would still be light out no matter how many drivers
came. Bryan Jacoby, driving CS
985, was to run in the second group.
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The course started with a right-hander after the timing
lights, through a slalom which had to be entered on the
left. A left turn into a straight, followed by a tight
left-hand hairpin, and another straight. That was
followed by a right sweeper into a three-cone slalom, and
a long left sweeper into the Hollywood Park ravine; then
an unusual four-cone slalom, with the second cone offset
so far as to be irrelevant. The course ended with a left
turn into the timing lights. My three runs went
uneventfully, but resulted in an unremarkable finish in
the depths of HS.
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Then Bryan was up in the second group. He was running on new
Yokohama
AVS ES100 summer tires, and found them to be a
considerable improvement over the
FZ4's that he'd run on before. The
tires showed no sign of overheating and displayed slight
shoulder wear. After a reconnaissance lap, Bryan turned
in times a hair faster than mine, and took home nearly 20
championship points in his first effort in CS, twice as
many points as Michael Schumacher usually earns.
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After working our shifts and packing up the cars, we returned
to our resepective homes to plot our domination of HS and CS.
My evil plan included
installing Illuminas and
attending an
Evolution Phase
1 school. Bryan's plan consisted of installing rollover
protection, on the theory that he would live to race again
another day. Did our plans bear fruit, or merely witness to
the futility of our efforts? Stay
tuned, gentle reader.
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| Place (overall indexed) |
Place (Class) |
Car |
Runs 1-3 |
Indexed Best |
Points |
| 197 |
5
(HS) |
814 |
64.042
63.153
62.979 |
48.998 |
66.925 |
| 238 |
11
(CS) |
985 |
66.423
63.040
62.737 |
51.068 |
19.897 |
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There were 12 drivers in CS (3 trophies) and 5
drivers in HS (2 trophies). There were 264 total drivers
with times in the indexed results. The complete
official
results and
indexed
results are available at the
CSCC Solo 2 web
page.
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$Date: 2003/06/03 22:10:57 $
Matthew Hunt,
[email protected]
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