EP Runoffs thread

Sunday the track was just very intimidating. I have three decent sessions down now and I'm getting there. There's just nothing with this same speed where I run. I'm pretty good 5-6-7-8-9 but then throw it away in the kink. If I can get that turn and turn one I'd be another 2-3 seconds faster. Crazy running the rev limiter in 5th.

Anyway met a couple forum members and hoping to meet a few more.

Broke my gearbox for the second time tomorrow will be crazy.
 
Yup, track was even pretty good for the FP/HP session at 8:40am. Skies are clearing out nicely, sun is out, and the temps are rising. Lets hope it stays like this.

Here's the EP grid:
J Brakke - Miata - 2:28.495
G Ira - 240Z - 2:29.744
A Downey - RX3 - 2:29.828
S Halkias - TR6 - 2:30.418
M Reynolds - Miata - 2:31.090
K Leigh - Z3 - 2:31.951
M Brakke - Miata - 2:32.355
R Kavitski - Miata - 2:32.540
A Snader - RX8 - 2:32.796
W Lamkin - Miata - 2:33.033
J Simaras - RX7 - 2:33.231
Rob Coffey - Prelude - 2:33.654
G Gist - RX7 - 2:33.945
J Prather - MX5 - 2:34.179

That's 11 diffrerent classification in the top 15 (both 1.6 & 1.8 Miata's, and 12A & 13B RX7's). Love it.
 
People came out to watch this one - that was the most full I've seen the stands and hills all weekend. Finished with Jon Brakke, Greg Ira, and Kevin Leigh, but that certainly doesn't tell the whole story. Aaron Downey took off in his RX3 and took the lead from the start, while Brakke and Ira fought over second. By the halfway point, the top nine was made up of nine different classifications. Aaron was out to a comfortable lead, before having to pull in after leading the first seven laps, for unknown problems. Sam Halkias moved into third, but shortly afterwards had an issue under braking into five, spinning him, and he pulled in next time around. Then Leigh, Rick Kavitski, and Austin Snader had a great battle for the last couple of laps for the final podium spot, with Leigh ultimately taking the final spot on the podium, followed by Snader and Kavitski. Up front, Brakke eventually was able to get ahead enough that Ira couldn't get back by on the straights. Ira stayed close though, being only ~2 seconds behind Jon at the finish.
 
Great fun from my spot In tenth. The start was crazy. Broke a right front control arm at some point and for whatever reason I could not get off the turns.

Anyway. Great season. Need more time here and some more grip to move up a couple spots.

See you next year.
 
Congrats Jon on the win! That Miata is HOOKED UP through the carousel...Randy Pobst even said "nice drift."

Good, clean racing. It was cool to see the wide variety of cars in the top 10.
 
kruck":25v6n270 said:
Aaron was out to a comfortable lead, before having to pull in after leading the first seven laps, for unknown problems.
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Apparently it was his shifter lever. What a terrible thing to end a Runoffs hope. That's racing I guess. I think it would have been a great fight at the end.
 
Did anyone else see Brakke on the last lap almost get taken out by a lapped car? I felt so bad for both of them... And I also hope no one took photos from behind at the podium!
 
jdh":2e3x20gy said:
What cause Brakke's crash? It looked like bad.

No the other one.
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Let's see... Simaras, Coffey, Brakke (v2.0) and myself were racing nose to tail for about four laps. Three of those laps, Mark's car was spewing something that covered my video lens... and had lots of trouble in 6 and 8 the lap before that happened. The crash - Mark did not setup turn 1 very well, and started braking in kind of an odd place. I couldn't tell if he overbroke and got the car sideways, whatever was leaking messed him up, or the car just broke. Anyway he went drivers left into the grass about the 1 marker for turn one, and hit the wall so hard pieces came flying back on the track in front of me.

We were all the walking wounded for those laps, except Simaras. Mark's car was puking something, Rob pointed me by coming into Canada for some issue I wasn't sure of, and my suspension heim joints started backing out on the right side making the car a total handful.

Rob and I traded a couple times after all that but we were both two seconds slower at that point. I just let him go after nearly spinning it coming OUT of three.
 
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