Well, since nobody has posted about their 2010 season here, I'll put in a few words about my last 2 events, 17 October and 24 October. These were my first two real events in the Meotter.
Brandywine Motorsports Club / Porsche Club of America (Delaware Valley Chapter) Event #4 - 17/10/2010
This event was held at the slightly larger of the 2 small venues this club uses, but even so, one pass constituted a little more than 2 laps of this course in about 50 seconds. The bottom part of the course was roughly shaped like one side of an hourglass, entering at 1 bell and exiting at the other. The top half of the course was a short slalom that began after a big decreasing-radius sweeper and ended in another sweeper across the top of the hourglass. Not a bad course, but this club really needs some bigger lots.
My daughter ran in the event, too, in her Impreza. Her driving is really picking up and she was able to drop a lot of time over the course of the day. We got 2 runs in the morning heat and 3 runs in the afternoon heat, but no fun runs.
Classing is fairly loose at this club and I got put in with a novice in an R35 GT-R. He was actually a good guy and his confidence grew as the day went on, though he was easy to beat. I had experience and the better part of 1500 pounds in my favor. I didn't get any pictures of it because I was in the same run group, but it sounded good, even if it really seemed hemmed in by the tight course.
Other than that, it was the usual mix of Boxsters, Caymen, and some miscellaneous older Japanese iron. FTD was (as almost always in this club) a well-driven Caterham 7, though I noticed he brought out the Hoosiers for this trip in order to take home the trophy for sure.
I'm really digging the Miata, though it needs some tinkering over the off-season. It badly needs fresh hubs and I'll probably do some bushing work while I have the back end out of it. So far the Knois are in their stock damping settings and I think I want to tighten the fronts 1 click to tame the rear end a little. It could stand to be cornerweighted, too.
What it really really needs is fresh rubber on 15x9 wheels (currently running ancient V710s on 15x7 K1s). That's probably not in the budget for next year, though I am eyeing some fairly-fresh 225/45/15 Hoosier A6 takeoffs that are for sale. I'd definitely need to get the wider wheels for those, though.
Pics and chat about the second event in a bit.
Hopefully some day that changes too...
