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Here were Scooter's last 3 track days with me behind the wheel:

September, 2008 - Sebring International Raceway
http://www.motoringfun.com/2008/09/1...-weekend-2008/

December, 2008 - Daytona International Speedway
http://www.motoringfun.com/2008/11/0...-weekend-2008/

April, 2009 - Homestead-Miami Speedway
http://www.motoringfun.com/2009/04/2...-weekend-2009/
 
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Originally Posted by mct
Here were Scooter's last 3 track days with me behind the wheel:

September, 2008 - Sebring International Raceway
http://www.motoringfun.com/2008/09/1...-weekend-2008/

December, 2008 - Daytona International Speedway
http://www.motoringfun.com/2008/11/0...-weekend-2008/

April, 2009 - Homestead-Miami Speedway
http://www.motoringfun.com/2009/04/2...-weekend-2009/
Way cool. The banks at Daytona look like great fun, and it was sure nice of all those Porsche's to get out of the way at Homestead!
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Old 04-16-2016, 07:40 PM
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Ran in a dragcross event today! Was 19th out of 56 cars in qualifying rounds. They then divided the cars into 4, 14 car elimination brackets. One run on each course gives you a total run time. I won my bracket by .03 secs! Closest race of the entire day haha. They then pitted the winners of each bracket against each other evening the odds out by time handicaps, so it came down to driver skill. I ended out coming second overall of the entire event! Great for my first dragcross event I thought.

Few pictures of the car of course
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My bracket trophy

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And the winning run from my bracket.
.03 second win
 

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Very nice! Glad Scooter is still having fun
 
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Took second in Street modified Street Tire class today. Class of 6 cars (06 sti, 03 wrx, 12 speed3, 99 impreza rs, father in laws 06 cooper s)
Speed 3 won by almost 2 seconds lol guy was fast haha i had solid improvements over my 5 runs.

Here's my fastest run of 63.350, sorry for the wind noise. Thinking about investing in a external mic

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Also I think I did a good job narrowing and figuring out my tire pressures.
Front 42psi
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Rear 30psi, which surprised me
 

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Awesome, gotta love the trophy!!!!
 
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Pictures from Sunday
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2nd in class out of 7 today... Going to win sometime this season lol


Was 11th in raw time outta 61 entries and fastest novice on the day


Like the star specs so far
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Congrats!!
 
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Congrats on the high finishes... any chance for Rookie of the Year? Are those 15" Kosei K8R's, and any more pics?
 
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Congrats on the high finishes... any chance for Rookie of the Year? Are those 15" Kosei K8R's, and any more pics?
Its looking at way as long as I stay consistant and make it to the majority of the events.
I just bought them 2 days ago, I get a few shots before I take them off today. They are a 15x7 et40. Under 12lbs a piece. I'm going to be running 12mm spacers with them by the next event. Going from the 16x8 et20 rotas to these kosei's hurt me a little inside in the look department haha


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Airtec intercooler installed. With a personal touch lol
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Shots from this Sunday. Interesting running in the rain, glad I got to practice in it though
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looking good!!
 
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Airtec intercooler installed. With a personal touch lol

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Did you notice a difference when you installed the new intercooler?
 
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