I just checked the results from east coast nats, 4 CMC cars, all mustangs. I guess CMC is only for rednecks in the center of the USA, not the hipsters on the coasts?
I wonder what a COTA national event would bring, probably a field of 20 CMC cars.
I just checked the results from east coast nats, 4 CMC cars, all mustangs. I guess CMC is only for rednecks in the center of the USA, not the hipsters on the coasts?
I wonder what a COTA national event would bring, probably a field of 20 CMC cars.
Considering CMC is dead/nonexistent on both coasts this is of no surprise.
If nasa went back to One real national champ race and had it at cota I bet there would be a record number of cars.
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The first Nats had 23.
Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
24 actually.
jb
We were the CMC trimmed car in PTB. It was the one of a few classes we could cross over too. We were heavily outgunned horsepower-wise as a start which resulted in us being about 6-7 seconds slower compared to the other 3 PTB cars. Nonetheless we finished on the podium in 3rd and had a great time at an iconic track. We really didn't care which group we were in, it was more about driving that track. Our fastest lap was a 1:48.161, interested in comparing that to production cars I found that we're about a second faster than a Ford Focus ST per http://fastestlaps.com/tracks/laguna_seca.html
The other half of Team Incidental Contact and myself wrote down a list of "must do" tracks the last weekend. We also broke them down by distance and time to get there. Given we drove to Laguna Seca (about 25.5 hours from western Kansas) our radius is pretty big and comes close to Daytona and parts of New York state. Your results may and will likely vary.
Maybe we (Rocky Mountain, Texas, Midwest who seem to compose the most CMC cars collectively) could work together and strive to get a large turnout at either a west coast or east coast event. We also were working with a few NASA Texas folks in high places to try and get NASA and Toyo to recognize Hallett as a place for a national championship event for CMC/AI, etc. Not sure how it went over but we at least got a conversation going.
Maybe we could start a poll as to which tracks you would attend for either a west coast or east coast national championship event. Probably better thing is to wait til the tracks are announced then see how many would go. Our mistake was thinking 4 cars would surely make the west coast seeing there are two California regions. Had we known there's basically no CMC or AI on the west coast anymore and hadn't already submitted our leave slips for peak leave season at work we would have gone to the east coast event instead. If we plan or attempt to plan/coordinate when the tracks are announced we could avoid that part next year.
Last edited by BADVENM; 09-11-2015 at 08:35 PM.
It was a test to see if you were still around.
I was in Monterey and attended West nats. The attendance was comparable with a regional event in TX. Spec E30 was a big class, the only CMC car I saw was in TTB and won. ST1-3 was a good sized class. One of the coolest cars I saw was an ex AI Camaro with a 7.0L crate engine putting 650hp to the wheels. The car builder got design help from some of the Nascar teams, it was very well engineered. The car ran in SU. It was great to see a car like one
we are racing able to compete with modified Z06 Corvettes.
Nice, any other details on that Camaro? A CMC car would get wasted in TTB in Texas, well in CMC trim. If you got the power up to TTB Power:Weight, slapped on some A7's, you could probably be competitive. Thats what would be so cool about a 98-02 F-Body, pull the restrictor and it would be a super easy dual purpose CMC/TT car.
35 page thread here. Car is no joke. It ran here a couple times @ Nat's w/ AI/CMC as an AIX car during its early build stages.
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