black86hatch

I went.
Was it fun? When I was dry, it was fun.
Here's what I had on my torso

t-shirt
long sleeve
microfibre golf shirt

jeans
gore-tex pants
my kart suit on top of that.

how long did i stay dry? less than five laps.
what i should've done was wore my gore-tex top as well. this way at least i don't get soaked.

Here's a tip for you racing in the rain: unless it's warm, don't do it.
If you have a choice, do it once when points doesn't count. Reschedule if you could. I thought it'd be fun, and it was at first.
Then the cold set in and it was brutal. I never knew 6.5 karts can be so mentally draining. By the time I spun out on my 2nd lap in my 8 lap qualifier heat, i just packed it in. I was cold to the BONE when i got in the kart, and that gets VERY distracting.

So dress warm. and wear something water PROOF. Bring another change of clothes. If you must, duct tape garbage bags underneath your outer layer so you odn't get drenched. It's not so much your torso, it's ur fingers and toes. Once they get wet, it's hard to stay focused.

Onto driving a wet track. Stay on the outer line at all times. you want rubber to meet wet asphalt, not rubber meeting wet rubber (the wet rubber is on the traditional racing line)

Brake way early, turn, and pray it turns in before it's too late. Initial turn in will be MASSIVE understeer. AFter that, it's literally control by throttle.

that's all i gotta say. it wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't wet AND cold.

Brisk20

dasmn too bad it wasn't fun for ya black86hatch... I think it would be a blast to run in the rain although I was out for a bit today and between the wind and how cold the rain was I can see how it would have been a rough day... too bad you didn't finish today ... were there many crashes with the poor conditions?

s13_gotBoost

well in that case im really glad i didnt go!!!
the thing is though....i forgot to call in to tell em i wasnt coming
oops

black86hatch

not so much crashing
tons of spinning.

the first 2 hours were fine.

oh..i didn't mention what spoiled my day

a stuck throttle on the first qualifying heat REALLY pissed me off.

seriously, i was doing when i realised the throttle was stuck. cuz i knew i was deadmeat

Brisk20

lol that sucks about the throttle... was that one of those problems that you just hoped "fixed" itself or how did u get that working properly?

black86hatch

i fixed it myself

by jumping into another kart on the session after.

here's a tip. when u'r in the staging area, and you get started up
hold onto the brakes, and mash the throttle

if you let off, and the motor keeps on chugging like u'r on the throttle, get out of the kart and get another one.

i knew it was stuck before i left the pits. but the guy working there said i should be alright

so much for listening to those morons

Brisk20

that's kinda messed up... good thing that nothing bad happened when you were out on the track... I mean I know there not liable but still that coulda been UGLY!

black86hatch

if the track was dry, i wouldn't have gave a 2nd look cuz really that doens't matter anyway a you should be on the throttle the wohle time.

in the wet it's kinda, errrrr, hard to drive

Brisk20

punk and I were there yesterday (monday) and it was an eventful nite

first off a guy who was coming into the had hit brakes totally come flying off... he couldn't stop and instead of being smart and exiting the pits and hitting the grass the turned the kart rite into the wooden stands they are building... he hardcore messed up the front right wheel and a few other things up front... he almost took out the girl that gets everyone ready to go out on the track...

As well during my race there was a guy that bumped another kart and ended up ripping the bumper right off and a wheel too if I'm not mistaking... and there was another guy in the younger class who's belt snapped around a turn and he went spinning out....

All in all a great nite... Mondays rule for the amount of ppl that are there (lots of track time) .. things other than those "incidents" went pretty smoothly..

punkindrublic

shhhhh i remember last night being stupid busy...


that kid who lost his brakes i dont think knew until he entered the pits though... cause it was right when he turned in that he started hitting his brakes frantically...

but ya it went well... its way more fun when theres people around you though as opposed to practice when your mostliy by yourself you passing slow mo fo's

Brisk20

well too bad u didn't experience many people around you... u sat in last most of the nite... so the only time i really saw ppl near u is when u were getting lapped

punkindrublic

funny... i was never in last... the only time i ever got passed was buy that lightweight guy in the last race... then probably a couple times in practice cause the weight classes were all mest up....

the last race i would say was the most fun of the night though cause i was ridding this guys *** the whole race... suprizing how fun that is... i didn't wanna make a pass and send him off the track cause bob would probably get all pissed... looked like he was going to blow an artery a few times last night

s13_gotBoost

anybody going up this thursday...the weather is gonna be niiiiice

no rain black hatch

punkindrublic

i'm thinkin about it... i'm gonna call and see which time has less people in it...

black86hatch

i'll be there for the 5-7

i've been eying the weather for thurs since sat

just curious if anyone remember their laptime from last night?

s13_gotBoost

i might b going tomorrow nite to make up the sunday i missed...if i still have enough gas then ill come on thursday too
lol

Brisk20

As far as lap times the computers weren't turned on in any of the karts I was on.... Don't we need to get our cards setup b4 they start takin time???

punkindrublic

i think the guy i was tailing that last race said he was runing 37 secs... so i'd be the same... but i dont know if thats fact or not cause those computer things weren't working as brisk said

Brisk20

one guy said one of his karts had it on... but i was in 9 karts w/ nothing showing... maybe it's cause my speeds were too fast to clock :P

black86hatch

no.

all my karts except last sunday's had their transponders on.