TnT and Points Event #7!

Iowa Region SCCA descended onto Hawkeye Tech for two days of autox action. Day 1 on Saturday was a test n tune. We had about 20 drivers who completed 400 runs all together. We started driving at 11am and finished at 4pm. The course had some fun technical elements but was fast, good mix of both.

2 Courses? 2 Days?

Test N Tune and Points events run two different courses for each day, sometimes we just reverse the course for day 2 but this time we completely revamped the course for the points event on Sunday.

With 39 drivers check in for the points event we got 7 runs before everyone decided it was too darn hot to continue. haha.

Battle

The battle for Top Pax was spicy as always. Andrew in the Tesla, Emery in the Civic, Keegan in the Lotus and Jeremy in the DMod were trading spots all day, with the warming afternoon conditions we were curious if the temps were going to slow people down but most people picked up time.

PAX?

Top Pax battle ended up with the Tesla in 4th with a 27.112, The civic in 3rd with a 26.976, The Lotus in 2nd with a 26.954, and first place on their last run Jeremy in Dmod with a 26.855!

Who is in?

Next event is Sunday August 17th at Hawkeye Downs. Will you be ready?

Drew

RE Iowa Region SCCA

*photos by Troy C.

Iowa Region SCCA was at Hawkeye Downs this weekend. It was another awesome event, there was some early rain that caused a delay. Hawkeye Downs needs to have a dry line for us to run, when the rain stopped we sent out most of the participants to drive the course backwards and get us a dry line. Worked great. ahaha.

Once things were dried up we had the driver’s meeting and novice walk. Hawkeye Downs has a somewhat similar layout each time due to the overall shape of the course, but we have some wiggle room for variation.

We had 65 people handle the rain delay, 22 of them were in our Novice class. Pro and Nats PAX classes had 12 Drivers. B Street and F Street were the biggest open classes with 6 and 4 respectively. Excellent turnout for the poor forecast we had all week.

Novice class was heated competition and a big variety of cars. 6th Place was Tary in their Focus ST with a 48.252(59.571), 5th Place was David in their ’01 Viper with a 48.226 (56.273). Pegleg of the Ballast Boys came in 4th in their Mustang with a 47.128 (57.126), Mike arrived in a C8 Z06 and laid down a time good enough for 3rd place in Novice a 46.716 (55.881). 2nd place was Ballast Boy Mark in their Mustang laying down a flyer of a last lap with a 46.062 (56.105). The top spot in Novice for event #6 was a DStreet GR86 driven by Dustin who ran a 45.095 (55.605).

The Ballast Boys are a newly minted group of AutoXers who have all been laying down their fastest laps on their last run with passengers! The debate is ongoing if it’s peer pressure, coaching or weight balance that allows them to drop time on their final runs when their friends are strapped into the right seat. Mark dropped 1.2x seconds on his last run, Pegleg also dropped 1.2x seconds with a passenger, Teddy’s fastest run was their 5th run which was a solid .6 seconds faster than previous attempts. We’re going to need more data from the Ballast Boys to figure out the answer to “the why”, but I’m excited to watch them drop time each run throughout the day. Upcoming test n tune should prove fruitful for data collection, get it Ballast Boys!

The Iowa Region SCCA Pro and Nats PAX classes had good numbers this event. With only the first 3 runs counting the pressure is really on. In the Nats PAX Class the KM crew of Dan and Ramon were trying to catch Dave in their GR86, even with flying raw times in the 46s the Kart couldn’t overcome the DS PAX. Dave solidified their top spot in Nats PAX with a 42.466 (52.363), Dan and Ramon had 43.345 (46.260) and 43.523 (46.450) respectively. Being a PAX class the (raw times) get multiplied by the class PAX multiplier to get a PAX time, this allows comparison of very different vehicles. The Pro PAX class was a Civic sandwich with Brent in GS, Jeremey in DM and Emery in GS taking 3rd, 2nd and 1st respectively. Brent cracked off a fast 3rd run with a 42.493 (53.518), Jeremy squeezed out a 44.8 raw time for his 3rd run but picked up a cone, having to stand on his 2nd clean run with a 41.543 (45.854) just .6 back from Emery. Emery had a blistering fast first run with a 51.922 raw time, but managed to drop even more time in run 3 with a 40.905 (51.518) which held off Jeremy for the Pro Pax 3 and done format.

The drivers in Open, Novice, Nats and Pro Pax classes all compete together for Top Time of Day (Raw) and Top Pax, all your runs count for all classes for FTD (Top Time of Day) and Top Pax. Usually we see faster times in the afternoon with warming temps and people being more familiar with the course. Top Pax AND Top Raw time were held by Jeremy in the DMod RC1.4t. Top Pax and FTD is an awesome feat, great driving Jeremy, 44.676 Raw and 40.476 Pax times. This 44.6 backed up Jeremy’s morning scratch time showing the time was there! 2nd and 3rd in Raw are Dan and Ramon in the KMod Kart with 45.843 and 46.260. The Kart is really starting to come into its own with Dan and Ramon piloting it. 2nd and 3rd in PAX were Andrew in their EVX Tesla and Emery in the GS Civic. The EVX Tesla had a 40.755 PAX just .279 behind 1st, Emery was only .150 behind Andew in the Tesla! Great driving everyone! Keep up the close battles.

Full results can be found on the results tab or here.

July 20th – Hawkeye Downs – Final Results | Raw Results | Pax Results | Pro & Nats Class Results

Can’t wait to see everyone at the next event this weekend! Lets get the seat time!

Drew

RE Iowa Region SCCA