Adam Ginsberg
05-28-2008, 09:55 PM
This past weekend, I raced here in SoCal again ( 2 tracks within a 2.5 hour drive! ).
I haven't driven WSIR since 2004.....and it is one damn fast track. Turn out in CMC and CMC2 was relatively light. 7 CMC2 cars and 6 CMC machines.
Weather was very good, if a bit windy. Mid-60's all day Sat and Sun, dropping to the high 40's at night.
A P2 qual position for the race start looked good (only .6 off the pole), but I fell back a few spots, and finished 4th. Held off Derek in a 3rd gen with a damn near photo finish (video links below). The T9 incident was weighing on my mind a bit.
Sunday didn't go much better. Could only manage a 4th in the qual race, but the top 4 CMC cars were all within .3 of each other (pole sitter put down a 1:37.2, P2 1:37.3, P3 1:37.570, P4 1:37.584), so it was going to be a close race. Standing start, managed to grab P3 by T2, and worked to get past a S197 CMC2 Mustang. After finally getting around him, in a solid P3.....I ran the car out of gas with 1.5 laps to go. :cry:
The Argent Lab CMC #5 Mustang was doing well.....it was the driver who goofed it up. WSIR uses more fuel that ANY track I've been to anywhere in the US.
Links to race videos. Please, right click, save as:
High quality of the Sat race. (http://www.shrackracing.com/video/WSIR-24-May-2008-R1-HQ.wmv)
Medium quality of Sundays race. (http://www.shrackracing.com/video/WSIR-25-May-2008-R3-MQ.wmv)
Enjoy.
Next up - SPIR in late June.
I haven't driven WSIR since 2004.....and it is one damn fast track. Turn out in CMC and CMC2 was relatively light. 7 CMC2 cars and 6 CMC machines.
Weather was very good, if a bit windy. Mid-60's all day Sat and Sun, dropping to the high 40's at night.
A P2 qual position for the race start looked good (only .6 off the pole), but I fell back a few spots, and finished 4th. Held off Derek in a 3rd gen with a damn near photo finish (video links below). The T9 incident was weighing on my mind a bit.
Sunday didn't go much better. Could only manage a 4th in the qual race, but the top 4 CMC cars were all within .3 of each other (pole sitter put down a 1:37.2, P2 1:37.3, P3 1:37.570, P4 1:37.584), so it was going to be a close race. Standing start, managed to grab P3 by T2, and worked to get past a S197 CMC2 Mustang. After finally getting around him, in a solid P3.....I ran the car out of gas with 1.5 laps to go. :cry:
The Argent Lab CMC #5 Mustang was doing well.....it was the driver who goofed it up. WSIR uses more fuel that ANY track I've been to anywhere in the US.
Links to race videos. Please, right click, save as:
High quality of the Sat race. (http://www.shrackracing.com/video/WSIR-24-May-2008-R1-HQ.wmv)
Medium quality of Sundays race. (http://www.shrackracing.com/video/WSIR-25-May-2008-R3-MQ.wmv)
Enjoy.
Next up - SPIR in late June.