Thanks to everyone who participated in the Points 7 Solo event at Oak Mountain Amphitheater on Sunday, August 19th. It was quite a full day of work, fun, and weather. We started the day off with, in my opinion as Co-chair, a terrible start. When you see myself, and John Waight, doing registration and Cashier, you know that terrible things are happening. Mark was out designing his course, with the help of a Safety steward who showed up early, and a Novice (that is what we like to see). So I was in the trailer trying to thumb my way through registration and cashier. Luckily John Waight held pity on me, and decided he would help out (probably because I snapped at a few people, and he was trying to make sure I didn't come out of the trailer and destroy the computers on the way). I apologize if I snapped at any of you, it was quite an experience handling all of that on my own, the definition of trial by fire. The good thing is, we have loads of great people that step up when needed, and everything else gotten taken care of on the course, in paddock, and in Tech.
On to the late start, and wonderful morning weather. We really couldn't have asked for a better morning of weather for autocross. After our last three events, and several events in TVR being unbelievably hot, we finally had some nice 80 degree southern weather. We battled the mud, and "rally" section of our autocross course with flying colors. The afternoon, that was a different story. We saw the rain coming, literally. We had two cars on course that had a SpaFrancorchamps like experience. Dry at start, wet on the sweeper, dry at the finish. From then on, it was wet but drying for the first run group, and then a full wet experience for the second run group. Personally, I enjoy driving in the rain, it makes the experience complete. It is amazing the grip you can get in the rain!
John Waight ended the day on top with Fastest Time of the Day at a 31.1. Dennis Sparks and his crew were flying in the RX-8. And Jerry Ledford once again walked away with the Novice class. Videos of many of the runs are in the message board.
See ya at the Labor Day race!
- John Kilgore, Solo Co-Chairperson