In reply to sleepyhead the buffalo :
my totals are slightly lower than yours, because I didn't give the last 3-4 cars points, but otherwise my results match yours
In reply to sleepyhead the buffalo :
my totals are slightly lower than yours, because I didn't give the last 3-4 cars points, but otherwise my results match yours
Yeah, I had that baked in... but might have had an issue in with it in the process of removing Dubler from the autocross results
Day 0 recap is live!
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/news/one-lap-of-america-day-0-recap/
And yeah, the autocross was interesting. I did all three runs, and they were the first time I'd driven this car besides a short drive around town.
Oversteer: Yeah, it has it! My first run was pretty wild and I spent a lot of time with the rear tires spinning learning what this thing does. I slid the rear end into a cone, too. My second run I started to bond with the car, and by the third run I put down a fairly tidy time. Good for 26th overall, which isn't bad for a 5000 lb. SUV on real street tires (most of the fast AutoX cars were on Super 200s).
I'll write more in tonight's recap, but bottom line this thing is awesome, but heavy, soft (for Autocross) and extremely overpowered. Just took me a few runs to figure out what it wants.
Tom Suddard said:Day 0 recap is live!
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/news/one-lap-of-america-day-0-recap/
At some point, I'd appreciate a picture of the #12 "John Deere" entry... for those of us at home who aren't in on the "joke"
Just because it doesn't tend to get enough attention on it's own (and being home this year, I have the time/technology to track it better), here's an update on the "All Remaining Cars" race...
currently the "NUNYA" Boss Mustang is "winning" the coveted award, although the WingedGrandpa's and ABTA MINI aren't far out of the running. We'll have a better idea after tomorrow how tight the race for this is this year.
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I should note this could be another historic year for ARC. Since the WingedGrandpa's might tie the McKay's for 2-wins and only be the 3rd multi-time winners. Or, there's still a chance the McKay's may end up winning a 3rd time and tie my all-time record!
dunno if there'll be P1LiveTiming at each event this week, but there was this morning. so I pulled it out (recall, these are "unofficial" times).
looks like David Carr (who's probably had a little more time in the Dodge) just managed to tweak the I5N by 1.5sec over 3 laps. I reckon y'all can find that in the afternoon, though? Looks like it's going to be a good race for 3rd in AltFuel. Go Get 'Em!
Yep! Andy did the first session this morning, and definitely took it easy learning how the Hyundai behaves on track. We're splitting every track this week, so I'll be out this afternoon. I've never been here before, though, so we'll see how it goes.
I drove this afternoon, and ended up just behind Andy--about three seconds cumulatively over three laps. The fun of learning a new track! Neither of us could beat a mid-pack finish today.
We'll review data tonight, but so far we agree we each left a TON of time on the table today. We've now each driven the car on track, and we've both been to tomorrow's venue (Hedge Hollow) before, so we're cautiously optimistic we'll find pace vs. our competition.
Of course, tire choice is a big factor here: Our Michelins are great in the rain, but we're outgunned by the dry focused Super 200s on the pointy end of the field (and on that Charger).
Tom Suddard said:Yep! Andy did the first session this morning, and definitely took it easy learning how the Hyundai behaves on track. We're splitting every track this week, so I'll be out this afternoon. I've never been here before, though, so we'll see how it goes.
I give lots of credit to teams that split the tracks everyday, in many ways that's "Hard Mode" at OneLap... but it's a good way to share the experience.
this is what I've got from re-ordering the P1LiveTiming, which seems to sort the "Run2" based on the cumulative time from the combined Morning and Afternoon sessions. Thanks to SpaceCadet, though, I figured out you can access both morning and afternoon's sessions from the Run1 / Run2 "buttons" at the top of each day's page.
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I'm just realizing this might have an issue with it, since it doesn't seem to be adding the last group of cars that only had the afternoon run into the Run2 times? so y'all might be back to ~46th
Tom Suddard said:I drove this afternoon, and ended up just behind Andy--about three seconds cumulatively over three laps. The fun of learning a new track! Neither of us could beat a mid-pack finish today.
We'll review data tonight, but so far we agree we each left a TON of time on the table today. We've now each driven the car on track, and we've both been to tomorrow's venue (Hedge Hollow) before, so we're cautiously optimistic we'll find pace vs. our competition.
Dunno if this is some of the data y'all can access... but it'd be interesting to see how many kWh's or Battery% you use in a morning or afternoon session.
A session costs 13% at WWT. On longer tracks, like Hedge Hollow, it should use more, but we'll see!
here's your All Remaing Cars update for Day 2:
NUNYA racing continues to lead for the win, aggressively. However, all it takes is 1 DNF to lose out on this magnificent award. Thus, there's a tight battle between the ABTA MINI, the McKay's (famous for running the Woody wagon a couple of times), and EBBQ of Don Harris & Charles Lovelady (both of whom have long and varied histories at OneLap) are all in a neck-and-neck race for Runner Up.
Apologies to WingedGrandpa's, who wrinkled their front end in an off in the morning session, but through the aid of multiple competitors managed to make the afternoon... which alas denies them a chance at a second one.
Even without that, It's shaping up to be a very interesting year in this award... especially since there's another tight battle between the Hayford Mustang, Dubler HHR, and Ray & Nicki in the 2002 for Double-Runner Up... in case the attrition continues apace this year. As it stands, 8 cars have had DNFs so far (i.e. 10% of the field).
I was perusing the order a bit more, and thought I'd highlight this section of the current overall:
Also Ran Racing / Brad Mintum is a frequent poster here on GRM, attending OneLap for the second time with his dad and doing an excellent job this year! I'll keep my fingers crossed that they can sneak into the 50's this year.
Matt & Pete Zekauskas were old hands at OneLap back when I did my first in 2009; and afaik they haven't missed one since then. They've been running their C5 each year since ~2015 and are all-around wonderful guys.
Then we've got 2 of the 3 DadBod Elises (in the past they've awesome late 90s Corollas) locked in a tie for points and less than a second of time difference (ties in OneLap go to the lower elapsed time).
Then we've got Steve Rossini and Bill Guy who were the official event photographers for ~20years, before Steve managed to pass that to another former competitor and began to compete and fundraise for the Brock Yates Alzheimer Memorial Fund.
And then there's Amanda Hennessey, driver and wrench extraordinaire, and 50% of the driving force behind the Dubler Chocolate Racing Team, killing it in an improbable Impala SS (which isn't that uncommon for her / the Dublers).
lots of time we focus on the people at the front of OneLap, and there's sometimes shade thrown at the people running odd-balls and running in the last few run groups. But, I've tended to find that they're the best people, and the bring an important character and attitude to OneLap. thanks for letting me highlight a couple of them just now.
I am trying to figure out the driver names and home cities of car #48 - team E36 M3 Bird. Appears to be some kinda humorous play on words but Google translate isn't flexing quite right. Anybody get it?
they're towns in Switzerland, and they are both Swiss (afaik).
Robert owns Dubler Chocolates over there. Actually ran the Rolex24 a couple(?) of times... and I think he's done 30+ OneLap of Americas?
He always brings a Chevy, frequently in the past it's been a trio of HHR's, which they beat mercilously. Things have pared down a little bit the last couple of years... I think Robert is somewhere in his 80's these days.
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