Fontana Pro Solo - Friday - Sunday

[Reijo]

Paul Brown led most of yesterday in ES but again, someone (Valafar) came in with a couple of hot last runs (very last two) and took the lead away by 0.3 sec. 

Makes me think the track is getting faster (rubber/clean) and/or people are dialing themselves and their cars in a bit for the surface.

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[Reijo]

In DS, Mark Scroggs is killing them with his 4cyl. 2016 Camaro 1LE ... go figure, eh?  I was reading up on that car recently and it is very competitive ... turbo 4 with pretty good power and torque ... decent suspension, manual, big tires/wheels .... What' not to like, eh?  I think I recall something like 0-60 in about 6 sec. ... old muscle car territory. 

And it is a 4 cylinder ... Did I say that already?

With a lighter engine, the overall weight is down and needless to say the balance is improved.   

[Reijo]

Hmmm..... Kinch Reindl appears to have been DSQ'd in STS in his '88 CRX ..... perhaps something illegal on the car?  And Pete Loney has jumped into 2nd place behind Stephen Yeoh .... both LA guys.

Update:  Just today's runs were DSQ'd .... Kinch was in 2nd after yesterday but now Pete has displaced him to 3rd.

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[Reijo]

STR is a huge battle ground ...  James Yom (won STR the last couple of years at Nats) just took over the lead from Ken Motonishi (multi-time national champion) by 0.047 seconds!  The top 5 positions are 0.5 sec. apart ... and Kevin Dietz is just making his last runs trying to catch up ...

Notably Ron Bauer has jumped up into 3rd place about 0.2 sec behind the leaders ... in his 2016 MX5.

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[Reijo]

Chris Thorpe is leading the way in STX in a VW R .... interesting ... some national-level/past nats champs are in the mix.

[Reijo]

Jay is up in the next group.

[Reijo]

I get a real laugh out of Scott McHugh ... who has been known for racing Corvettes typically.  However he is running his grocery-getter '13 Honda Accord in HS ... is in the top 10 in PAX, and has won HS ... ha haha.  He is a multi-time National Champion of course but he sure is driving the wheels off that grocery-getter!   

[Reijo]

Wow ... Jay has jumped into the 2nd trophy spot ... however Charles Kim is to come and he can peddle that GT3 with the best of them if he cleans up his act.      Hang on folks!

[Reijo]

Congrats to Jay!  2nd place behind Scott Fraser (multi-time National Champion) ... by about a second.  Charles Kim did not manage much better and his wife/gf Jocelin even "skirted" him!   And Charles is not a bad driver .. .think he has trophied at Nats ... but Jocelin has won the ladies class in that car ... a couple of years ago.  So, she is fast!

[Reijo]

In the R1 class Marshall Grice ran the Christopher's A-Mod and did some absolutely blistering runs!   22/23 seconds .... TOP PAX of the day ... That is an amazing achievement in A-Mod where the tiniest errors can result in lost time at the speeds they carry. ... GT3's were running high 26 and low 27's (Scott Fraser) ...

Think about it ... that is about 30% faster than SS ...

[Reijo]

Top PAX is Marshall.

Look who is 2nd.  How about that?

http://sololive.scca.com/OtherDir/PaxIndexOverall.html

[JamesTCallaghan]

Wow 2.0L Camaro. All driver or partial car too?

[Reijo]

Wow 2.0L Camaro. All driver or partial car too?

Driver is very good ... but the car is definitely competitive. 

There are quite a few top PAX drivers in the mix .... without a damned good car there is no way he'd be that high on PAX at that event.

For instance take a look at James Yom who won STR ... his reaction times are amazing ... all in the 0.5's except one 0.601 and one 0.603 ... Ken M, Tom Berry and probably a couple dozen past National Champions etc. ... You aren't going to outdrive all of those guys ... and definitely not without a good car.

Of course there is always the course factor .... Some courses may favour some cars ... and I noticed in the video I watched that there were some almost button hook turns in there which is unusual for down there ... but the Green lot is smaller than El Toro where they have run in the past.

R

[Reijo]

http://autocrosstalk.com/2016/07/15/mark-scroggs-multi-time-scca-autocross-national-champion/

[Reijo]

Annie Gill wins the Women's Challenge ...

You can also see comments from Stacey Christopher on my FB page here (she is giving me updates on what is happening since there is no on-line broadcasting:

https://www.facebook.com/reijo.silvennoinen.5/posts/10155111124587008?comment_id=10155111258222008&notif_t=feed_comment&notif_id=1491166010089851

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