Old Sep 23, 2002 | 03:18 AM
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Default Subaru of America Challenge - Sunday September 22, 2002

For those who didn't attend it was a fun event (well fun if you won money =) ). The course was setup so that the people going too fast would get into a crunch into the next section, and the people who were too slow got behind. You had to use speed carefully and in the right places.

Course started out with a sharp left into a 3 cone slalom, into a two cone gate right hand turn which you had to take slow or you would overshoot the 2 cone gate in which you had to come back for. Through another couple cone gate right hand turn. Which lead into 2 two cone gates (offset a bit), then into a pair of 6 cone gates offset of each other into a 4-5 cone slalom. Once out of the slalom you had to turn right and shave off a bit of speed so you wouldn't overshoot the pointer cone. Once pass the pointer cone you enter a series of two cone gates and into a huge Chicago box and to the finish line.

Well I took home 3rd place in PAX and 1st in STS along with $75 from Subaru of America The competitors were tough and I wasn't having good morning runs. I keep tailsliding and oversteering causing me to be all over the place (best run was a 49.xxx). I'm not used to running with 1/2 tank of gas. So on my last run of the morning I pumped up the air pressures all around by 3psi. And it worked. My times drop to a 41.003 by our last run in the morning.

Afternoon times I got faster and faster and by my last run had my times down to 40.5 with almost hitting a seagull

This was enough for 1st place (by .3 seconds) and 3rd in PAX for money money
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