Last Sunday was the first event in the ARMS Regional AutoSlalom championship. It was hosted by Moncton Motorsport Club at the Magic Mountain Parking lot. There was a good turnout. It wasn’t a surprise that Brian took FTD in their BMW… they have a habit of doing that…
Just having finished putting the 510 together, we figured it would be a good idea to bring it out to test it out. It worked better than expected in the autoslalom. Someone took some vids of it.
Results are posted here. Our 510 is in the DMOD class.
http://www.vimeo.com/5069484
MMSC is also hosting the racing at AMP this weekend. There will be a club camp-out at the track on Saturday night. There’s going to be a BBQ. If you’re thinking of coming down to the track, this weekend would be a awesome one.
The grass is green and that can only mean one thing — start doing yard work…. or that racing is about to start!
I updated the season schedule for the 2009 season. Its still a bit early to say if that schedule is finalized or not, but keep an eye on it, and hopefully I’ll see some of you at the events. We’re planning to do basically the same as last year. Compete in the TRAC Tour Championship at Atlantic Motorsport Park and follow the MMSC local autoslaloms.
One big item this year is the ASN Canada FIA Solosprint championship in September. We’re excited to participate and compare our skills/car with the rest of Canada for doing hotlaps. Slalom @ Slemon is also usually pretty interesting in that it brings competition from all over. This year we might bring the Datsun 510 there instead of the 350Z.
We’ve been doing the once over the 510 and 350z to start the season. The motor for the 510 isn’t quite ready yet, but that should be done withing weeks and ready to drop in the car.
We recently participated in the Jack Canfield Memorial race at Atlantic Motorsport Park. We teamed up with Mike McCrea, Chris McCrea and Rob Stone for the 3 hour race.
We prepared and ran the race in Mike’s Datsun 510, which was appropriately, one of Jack Canfield’s old cars. We didn’t have the best luck with weather considering our tire/chassis setup, but we stayed mid pack until we developed a drive train issue near the end of the race which cost us a few extra pit stops. We finished 13th, but to have Jack’s car still in good shape after the race was a good enough result to be happy with.
With that said, the racing season is now over. We learned a lot and now the racing begins in the garage, to apply all our new knowledge and ideas for next year’s racing season!
Thanks to all that helped and supported us in 2008!
Another race weekend in the books. We unfortunately had the same transmission issue as last race, so we had to again swap in our trusty spare. Other than that, we had a great day on Sunday. Improved lap times, and we got a chance to get some tire data.
We got an award for 2nd place for GT2 class in the TRAC Tour race.
We also caught a bit of the Unlimited Race with our on board camera.
Photos by J. Blades
