Packwood Champ. Tour - July 8-10

[majormojo]

Reijo, I should be getting in on Thursday night, staying at the Mountain View. Call me on Fri AM if you need some help setting up.

[Reijo]

Sure! I am in Invermere right now for the night and dropping off tires in the morning to Matt in Cranbrook then down the road.   I am in the Packwood Inn....still a couple of rooms left there... not a fancy place though. ... right beside the pizzaria. What is your timing through here?

[Reijo]

BTW, I have two guys helping me already but another hand is always welcome.  I am meeting the event chair, Jill Snell on-site Friday morning at 7 am to place the SCCA timing trailer and will then proceed to set up the course thereafter ... so maybe anytime after about 8 am would be good to help out ... if you are bored and looking for something to do!     I suppose it may be a help to see what we are doing to set up the course!   

thanks,

Reijo

[Reijo]

Run/work order is posted:

http://cdn.growassets.net/user_files/scca/downloads/000/016/464/2016_Packwood_CT_event_supps.pdf?1467840448

It looks like I'll be co-driving with Mark Deregt in his 2007 STR Honda S2000 against Ron Bauer in the ND and Kevin Dietz in his S2000 plus a whole host of others ... one of the larger classes.  Fun, fun, fun!   

[Reijo]

Arrived in Packwood with Matt ... at Packwood Inn ... see SCCA vehicles and other misc. sports cars at the pub .... people are starting to arrive ... going to Blue Spruce pub for coolie soon ... Jim?  See you there?

[Mkelder]

Reijo and I have arrived in Packwood! He was lucky enough, or more like I was lucky enough to find a set of older but hopefully still life left Hoosiers to fit on my stock rims. Tomorrow is the test and tune where I get to see if they are going to play nice for me.

[NickST]

^^ Nice!

Good luck guys

[Mkelder]

So the Hoosiers passed the test and tune today. For an old set I couldn't be happier. No major rubbing and they are definitely aren't a dead set. Bit of a learning curve though, hopefully tomorrow and I can bring it all together for the 3 runs we get.

[NickST]

What size are they? How does using R-comps affect your PAX time?

[Stuart]

What size are they? How does using R-comps affect your PAX time?

His PAX multiplier already assumes that he would be running R-comps so no issues there.  Also, at Packwood, PAX is rarely discussed as all trophies are class based. (someone usually calculates PAX results after the event but it's not an official result)

[Stuart]

Really good Day One for Cam, sitting in first in AS.  Ryan is second in SS and a bunch of our guys are sitting just out of the trophies.  Best of luck tomorrow everyone.

http://sololive.scca.com/CT/index.php

[NickST]

Wooo-hooo, go Cam & Ryan!   

[Stuart]

Tom K is just out of the trophies in BS only 62 thousandths back of the last trophy position.
Wayne is less than 2 tenths out of the trophies in CS.
Julie is just out of the trophies in ESL.
Tom G is just out of the trophies in SSP.
Best of luck picking up a spot or two.

A few others are struggling, which is part of the rollercoaster that is Packwood.  Hopefully you are enjoying the experience at the very least.

[Mkelder]

So Tom K ended up with a trophy, joins by Wayne and Ryan and class winning cam! Winning a trophy here is no small feat. Almost 300 people and I would observe half the competitors as trophy contenders in their respective class.

I myself can walk away with valuable things to have learned. In other words, I got schooled   

[Reijo]

I took a bunch of photos for various reasons ... some for no reason.  Some unfortunately did not turn out well (it seemed that I somehow hooked or hit the autofocus switch on the lens without noticing so some are out of focus ... my apologies.  Nevertheless, the photos can still be informative in showing what line some people took in certain places, etc.).

https://201607packwoodtour.shutterfly.com/