We went to Summit Point and came back and the forum is gone. We can't leave you guys with anything while we are gone :-).

It was a NASA race/HPDE weekend for those of you that don't know. Phooka and me went. Also running were Beno Rubin in his other Civic, Jeff Curtis in a Dazio 962 thingey (he apparently is not running his 911 right now). Keith Edwards was there working corners too.

Phooka started things off early with a quick offroad excursion at turn 3. That is not a good place to go off, but he managed to not hit anything, except some rocks that bent up some things underneath. He has some videos of his other sessions that he says he will put online somewhere.

In what I call the good planning department, I was an instructor for the event. I have RWD, high horseposer experience, especially with older Mustangs. So there are 2 novices in old Shelbyized Mustangs at this event. One gets and instructor who drives a Civic, and the other at least got an instructor that drives a later Mustang. I on the otherhand have students in a Civic and a Subaru. I have to admit they were both model students, but I had little to offer them in specifics about their cars.

For me it felt great to get back home to Summit Point. It is a busy track compared to VIR. I did put two wheels off the track (first time ever at a HPDE type event) by overshooting breaking point at turn 5 on Saturday. The next day I had a problem in the front suspension at the kink at the top of the chute (fastest turn on the track, with the least runoff room). I turned and the car went straight. I came very clost to putting it all in the tires and concrete there, but I saved the car. I got it back to the pits after the session, found the problem (had to replace a bolt) and got everything home ok.

Ted Hulse (SP regular forever) was running a borrowed Jaguar XK220 (a $1million car) all weekend. There were some other interesting cars in the NASA races, great trophy girls, etc.

Great weekend, they had some incidents in the HPDE and the races. Those things happen sometimes to remind us that all those safety features are not there just for show. Gotta go back again soon.