{"id":918,"date":"2010-04-22T01:13:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T01:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=918"},"modified":"2025-02-01T22:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:27:09","slug":"scca-event-1-and-ccc-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/scca-event-1-and-ccc-for-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"SCCA Event 1 and CCC for 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/georgeco\/sets\/72157623788687983\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2250\/4548722536_b1f17bcdfc.jpg\" alt=\"Muddy BMW\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a busy week here at GeorgeCo, with three events in five days. Saturday started it off with half a day with some of the BMW club instructors on the skidpad at Summit Point. About a dozen drivers, three at a time on the skidpad for four hours. Very helpful in finally mastering a full-lap with the tail out in oversteer. I also mastered the 360 degree spin. I spun so much that my radiator cap came undone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/georgeco\/sets\/72157623788720857\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4017\/4548058503_753efbf98d.jpg\" alt=\"MINI\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday was the first championship event for the SCCA. It was a fairly simple course on a very slicked repaved surface at FEDEX field. I drove the MINI which was probably the right choice for the surface. I had a bad tire bead on one of my racing tires so I tried slicks up front, street tires in the rear. Sort of a tire mullet. It really helped to get the car to rotate, but you couldn&#8217;t get the power down because the temperature was so cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Summit Point Main Circuit in the Rain.  BMW E30 325is\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dVDOy5BH2Jg?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\n\n\n<p>Finally Wednesday was the Colonial Challenge Cup at Summit Point. This is a fun charity event with loads of track time. For the second year I instructed basic and intermediate students. I usually try to pick front-wheel drive or low horse-power cars, but this year I got a Corvette and an Audi S4 with a V8. Fun, but more power in the wrong hands is not always a good thing. The video has a couple of good recoveries in the wet, especially towards the end. Below is a screen capture of my finest moment: passing a Ford GT coming out of turn 10 onto the main straight, in the rain&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/FortGT40FingerPass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1489\" height=\"839\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/FortGT40FingerPass.jpg\" alt=\"FordGT40FingerPass\" class=\"wp-image-920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/FortGT40FingerPass.jpg 1489w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/FortGT40FingerPass-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/FortGT40FingerPass-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/FortGT40FingerPass-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1489px) 100vw, 1489px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a busy week here at GeorgeCo, with three events in five days. Saturday started it off with half a day with some of the BMW club instructors on the skidpad at Summit Point. About a dozen drivers, three at a time on the skidpad for four hours. Very helpful in finally mastering a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/scca-event-1-and-ccc-for-2010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SCCA Event 1 and CCC for 2010&#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":[4,12,14],"tags":[47,48,148,178],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmw","category-hpde","category-mini","tag-bmw","tag-bmw-cca","tag-hpde","tag-mini"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","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=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}