{"id":854,"date":"2009-04-28T22:41:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T22:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2025-02-01T22:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:06:13","slug":"first-scca-autocross-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/autocross\/first-scca-autocross-of-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"First SCCA Autocross of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3306\/3481078841_456f508b0a.jpg?v=1240879370\" alt=\"GeorgeCo at speed\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/georgeco\/sets\/72157617407369368\/\"> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This past weekend featured the first <a href=\"http:\/\/solo.wdcr-scca.org\">SCCA Autocross<\/a> event of the new season at FEDEX field. It was a chance to test out my new suspension and tires. During the winter, I picked up some Hankook Ventus Z214 competition tires from Frisby Race Tires. For a while, they had a special on the C50 (medium) compound in 205\/50R16 for about the same price as a regular street tire. So I grabbed a set, repainted the white Kosei rims, and had them mounted up. (The new rim color is as close to &#8220;brake dust&#8221; as I could find, thus saving time from cleaning.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday turned out to be in the &#8217;90s &#8212; very unseasonably warm for April around here. I was worried about overheating the new tires on their first use. They were not heat-cycled so I knew they would be a bit slippery anyway, but I&#8217;m very happy with them. I ran with 38-40 lbs in the front and 35-37 lbs in the rear. I can probably drop it down a pound and start off with 35\/33 cold instead of 36\/34 which I had. The new springs are also a bit softer than the old ones, but once I got used to them I could make them work for me. I dropped 2 seconds over the four runs, with the last two runs being exactly the same down to the thousandth of a second. Odd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I came away from the event thinking I hadn&#8217;t done that well, but ended up placing 6th out of 16 in my class (street mod). I always compare myself to G Stock, which is where I probably should be running, where I would have placed second. One day, maybe I&#8217;ll bite the bullet and make my car eligible for that class again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WDCR SCCA Championship Event #1\" width=\"950\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sUjNeAuuX2A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend featured the first SCCA Autocross event of the new season at FEDEX field. It was a chance to test out my new suspension and tires. During the winter, I picked up some Hankook Ventus Z214 competition tires from Frisby Race Tires. For a while, they had a special on the C50 (medium) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/autocross\/first-scca-autocross-of-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First SCCA Autocross of 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[37,178,237],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autocross","category-mini","tag-autocross","tag-mini","tag-scca"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4308,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/4308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}