Freedom Sprints Super Tour and Majors event June 30- July 1

Mazda Jon":32jgfdko said:
Hard to believe a flat tire cause the fire. The Last Chance fire is 100% contained and is east of the track. 45,000 acres burned, thats 70 square miles.

Hell of a fire season is an understatement. Waldo fire is now burning in the Colorado Springs city limits and grew from 6200 acres Tuesday to 15,000 acres this morning with 32,000 people evacuated. This includes many of our racing family.
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We had a street car go off track with a spin and kill the engine last weekend. The cats had the grass on fire before I could get a tow truck to the scene and we did an immediate dispatch when they didn't keep rolling.

James R.
 
I really need to stop complaining about the snow in upstate New York. As much as it sucks,
in 40 years I can not recall ever being adversely affected by a flood, hurricane, tornado, earthquake or wild fire.
 
We have not had much rain here in Wisconsin in the last month.

At the June Sprints, during one of the ground-pounder qualifying sessions, they had three huge grass fires simultaneously at different parts of the track.
Ground pounders tend to belch flame when the go to closed throttle and this set the grass near the edge of the track on fire.

If anybody was wondering what caused that big charred spot in the Carousel...that was from one of the fires.
 
I know FF Driver/ Area Director Bill Kephart was evacuated. He's basically at Garden of the Gods, which is just at the bottom of the Waldo fire.

Since dirt doesn't catch fire, we should be safe at the track.
 
Eric, there was a 45,000 acre grass fire just east of the track earlier this week. As I understand it, that fire was started by some moron running down hwy 36 on rim throwing sparks to the shoulder.
 
The new track berms slows the track by about a half second mainly in the esses

Qualifying.

Ep
Reynolds 2:00.0
Lamkin 2:00.8
Prather 2:01.3
Halbrook 2:01.8
Longwell 2:03.5
Ruse 2:05.0
Kosdrosky 2:05.5
Pinieder 2:06.5
Adams 2:11.6

FP
Prill 2:02.0
Harris 2:04.2
Hingston 2:05.1
Frank 2:09.5
Jensen 2:12.7

Matt is under the track record but broke a gearbox. Hes already swapped in a spare
I am running out of rear shock travel and had to go way up in rear spring which makes the car a handful
Jesse keeps mumbling something about 99 miatas.

Eric also broke a gearbox and also has a spare.
 
P No. CLS DRIVER NAME NL DIFF LAPTIME GAP FL BESTIME BSPEED LED
1 71 EP Matt Reynolds 18 > 18 < 2:29.972 > 18 < 4 2:03.119 74.562 16
2 7 FP Eric Prill 18 6.037 2:46.781 6.037 3 2:03.222 74.500 0
3 10 EP William Lamkin 18 8.633 2:02.940 2.596 7 2:00.953 75.897 0
4 75 EP Mike Halbrook 18 12.554 2:05.230 3.921 1 2:03.654 74.239 1
5 38 EP John Longwell 18 13.895 2:04.783 1.341 16 2:04.328 73.837 0
6 34 EP Jesse Prather 18 21.376 2:07.917 7.481 4 2:03.433 74.372 1
7 8 FP Rick Harris 18 28.552 2:05.611 7.176 2 2:03.683 74.222 0
8 77 EP Rick Kosdrosky 18 82.085 2:19.081 53.533 13 2:08.865 71.237 0
9 53 EP Guy Ruse 18 98.549 2:17.525 16.464 1 2:05.765 72.993 0
10 26 GTL Kent Prather 18 119.477 2:15.799 20.928 17 2:05.739 73.008 0
11 03 FP William Hingston 17 > 17 < 2:14.238 37.741 3 2:04.987 73.448 0
12 32 FP Neal Frank 17 35.912 2:18.049 35.912 2 2:12.600 69.231 0
13 76 HP Alex Burnett 16 > 16 < 2:25.122 1LAP 6 2:18.259 66.397 0
14 87 EP Richard Adams Jr 15 > 15 < 3:45.428 1LAP 6 2:18.883 66.099 0
15 88 FP Paul Jensen 11 > 11 < 2:26.315 3LAPS 1 2:15.135 67.932 0
16 74 EP Paul Pineider 7 > 7 < 2:44.454 4LAPS 2 2:07.860 71.797 0
17 04 GTL Jonathan Goodale 6 > 6 < 9:42.449 4LAPS 2 2:06.750 72.426 0
18 81 HP Rob Horrell 4 > 4 < 2:47.174 1LAP 2 2:28.637 61.761 0
19 17 EP Jimmie Svaton 2 > 2 < 2:33.816 1LAP 2 2:33.816 59.682 0
 
My car quit running on the grid and wouldnt' restart... so I had to watch not only the EProd grid go, but then wait 'til the back of the FProd split start group to go out. Pretty happy with fast race lap anyway. Crazy passing 16 cars. I think the EProd group was 1/2 a lap ahead by the time I got the green.

Pretty crazy pulling up to 2nd place in EP - but I was pretty pissed off. I drove like a jerk and got right in the middle of Eric and Ricks' race, only to go flying off the track and rip off my front spoiler. So I calmed down and let not only them, but 3rd place in FP go by - then settled down and got after it. Car's pretty good right now, driver's got some work todo.

Congrats to Matt for the easy win. I think Matt, Mike Halbrook, and Jesse all led a lap today.
 
Qualifying.

Ep
Prather 1:59.1
Reynolds 1:59.3
Lamkin 2:01.2
Longwell 2:01.7
Kosdrosky 2:03.4
Ruse 2:04.3
Pineider 2:05.7
Halbrook 2:06.8

FP
Prill 2:00.8
Harris 2:02.2
Hingston 2:05.7
Frank 2:14.3

Track conditions were really great for July and most folks went much faster. Jesse is 1.7 under my old record. Eric is right at his old record in the lotus.

I swapped to smaller injectors and guessed wrong on fuel pressure and just came in after a reasonable lap.

Remind me not to tease Jesse again.
 
Well, my day sucked. I made two tactical errors - changing injectors to try and fix the plug fouling issue, and burning off my tires on the day that didn't matter.

Jesse Matt and I had a 3- car freight train going for about 2 laps, when I downshifted too early and spun in 11 - and watched the entire field go by.

Matt and Jesse then had a great 10 lap battle before Matt's throttle cable mount broke. Jesse cruised to the win.

One of these days I'll get my program figured out, but I'm not feeling so great at the moment.

Thanks to all the out of state folks that made the trip - especially nice meeting Paul and Mike from Texas - I am going to put College Station on my schedule next year.
 
A great weekend of racing. Kudos to everyone involved in the great event. It was hot for sure.

Rick caught me sleeping at the start Saturday and led through turn three. I was able to get a good run through three and draft by. As Bill mentioned, his effort to get back to the EP cars probably slowed Rick enough to give me the opening gap I needed to pull away.

On Sunday, I learned not to get snookered on the start and both Rick and I went for it running pretty even into 1. I had the line so took the lead. He had a nice run through 4 and 5 and made a bold move up the inside of 6. For those that have never been, 6 is a super slow tight late apex hairpin. Coming up the inside gives a bad angle and I was waiting for the bump but he kept off me. I did end up 4 of on the exit and that allowed Rick, Hingston, Goodale and kent Prather by. Kent pointed me by out of 8. I think I got Jon at 1. Rick did a very gentlemanly thing and pointed me by going into 4. Good guy to recognize he may have been in the wrong and hit the reset button on your battle. Hingston ran tough leading the opening two laps before I got the run out of the last series of corners up the front straight. From there it was just running hard the entire race and trying to negotiate traffic as best you could. 15 of my 18 laps were run at a 2:03 or faster which, given the conditions, was a fast pace.

Next up is Heartland Park in 2 weeks and then I'm finished until the Runoffs.

Congrats to Matt and Jesse on the EP wins. Both should be very strong contenders at the Runoffs and Lamkin is a dark horse if he can get through is troubles.
 
EPrill":2m39c0al said:
...15 of my 18 laps were run at a 2:03 or faster which, given the conditions, was a fast pace...
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You were blindingly fast all weekend - pretty close to the some really fast EP cars, with Rick a tick behind. Very impressed. Congrats to you, Jesse and Matt for your wins and lap records.
 
A great weekend! Not a fan of the heat plus altitude, my car hated it on Saturday. Thankfully a small storm came through Sunday a bit before our race and cooled things down a bit. Learned a lot on setup on the car and really enjoyed the track! A tricky drivers track for sure.
 
I had a great time at HPR! I could never get my lap times down to where I was happy. The old 12a does the best it can. Watching Bills video I see a few places where I can pick up some time. Saturday my fuel seemed to want to vaporize and after about 10 laps the car just laid down, Sunday was a blast, temps dropped enough to let the car run, or maybe it was the race fuel that Eric suggested. Guy and I had a great battle for 5/6th place, I tried several times to pass, and once pulled side by side but the 13b won that battle. It was nice meeting Bill and Jon! Next year maybe I'll bring a little more car, and have something for you guys! Thanks to Colorado Region for putting on a great event!
 
blamkin86":10k86ckj said:
Sunday's Race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVHOQhGa4sI

I cut out the first half of the out lap, but you get the idea how herky jerky the thing was. Lesson learned.
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In the words of Thomas Edison ...

"Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward...."

... as I am getting ready to test Rev3 of my EP car I'll keep these words handy as well.

- M
 
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