http://www.lasttenth.com Steer with your right foot! Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:24:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 This year's theme: American Muscle http://www.lasttenth.com/index.php?p=65 Day 1 - Qualifying Quick recap - qualified 29th out of 68 cars. Longer story - I'm renting a Spec Miata from a team so I'm arriving & driving - no work on my end to prepare or fix the car. I'm running in two different classes (SMT & ITA) to ... http://www.lasttenth.com/index.php?p=66 Figuring out how to drive a girly-car Race No. 1 So I qualified 20th out of 50 cars for today's race, completing my ascension to a mid-pack driver (from utter n00b). The field at mid-pack is super-competitive. If I had qualified 0.3 seconds faster and I would have been 15th. 0.3 seconds ... http://www.lasttenth.com/index.php?p=60 Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job (as Laguna Seca traffic director) http://www.lasttenth.com/index.php?p=59 Getting schooled First race 01 - Start!!! (13 MB) At the start, Justin Hall & Jack Arluck get into it. Mayhem ensues and after a start where the outside line was moving, I have to take a most circuitous route to Turn 2. It looks like the Paris-Dakar rally raid with a ... http://www.lasttenth.com/index.php?p=58 Risk vs. Reward Nitto NT-01's are genius. Two open laps at ~1:54.5 (33 MB) http://www.lasttenth.com/index.php?p=57 First Spec Miata race 1 - Start & Kim spin 6 - Open lap http://www.lasttenth.com/index.php?p=56 Spec Miata for the well-to-do F50GT 166MM 62 GTO 61 Testa Rossa? 57 Testa Rossa 250 Tour de France? 250 SWB 250 SWB 512BB/LM 64 GTO 512S - this particular one being known as the best-prepared 512 ever when it competed. (because it was owned and run by Roger Penske) Columbo from 64 GTO 430 Challenge http://www.lasttenth.com/index.php?p=54 Bull in the china shop So I went to the local PCA region autocross at the old Alameda Naval Airstation this past Saturday. I've been trying to find the cause of a weird steering problem and this was the best legal & safe way to test the car. Alameda is the only ... http://www.lasttenth.com/index.php?p=55 There is no Spring. A ton of Porsches as it was a Friday before the PCA time trial weekend. A few guys were out getting some extra practice. The weather in Northern California changed in two days from winter to summer, bypassing any hope for mild days at Thunderhill. ... http://www.lasttenth.com/index.php?p=46