This past weekend was the DC Region SCCA / MARRS Labor Day double at Summit Point. I've been chasing the C sports racer season championship all year - essentially since I crashed the car last October. It's been a bazillion hours and a E36 M3 ton of work, but I made it to The Double with a nice points lead.
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Saturday morning I qualified w/ a 1'14.434 which put me on the pole for Saturday and Sundays races.
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Saturday race: Got to turn 1 in 2nd place, chased for 2 laps, noticed he always ducks left before turning right in T1, drafted him all the way to his brake marker (the 300' board) the next lap, as he slowed and moved left I popped out - still flat - moved right, braked at the 2, and squared it off inside him. Then I drove away. Class and overall group win.
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Sunday: From pole I beat the 2nd place CSR to T1. A Formula Enterprises car got through, I passed him the next lap and managed traffic well to stay out front. Class and overall group win.
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Monday: I was gridded P1 for quals. In qualifying I tried going out as hard as possible to see what the highest first race lap pace was that I could manage. I caught the back of the field in a lap, so I camped out in 1st gear to give them room then started my flying lap in turn 9 so I'd be at 100% pace exiting 10 which leads into the start-finish straight. When I saw 1'14.1" on my timer I wagered it was good for pole.
I was 1/10th off. The competition did a 14 flat, so I'd be starting from the outside.
This necessitated getting a perfect start and perfect shifts to win the drag race to the first turn.
So I did that, and it worked.
I clicked off the absolute best 14 laps of Summit in my life and lead the race wire to wire.
And I did a 1'13.843.
3 personal best laps, 3 class wins, 3 overall Wings n' Things group wins. Against a 5 car field in class, the cheapest of which cost double what I have in mine - the rest are all new $100k+ Radicals, and about 20 cars total in the race group, most of which appear to me on track not as cars, but stationary objects.
