WIL @ Pmg

[Marsh]

OK I'll get the ball rolling:

1. You know your co-driver is doing something fundamentally different, when at the end of every run you always disagree on whether the car is understeering or oversteering (when I thought it was loose he said it pushed, when I thought it pushed he said it was loose). We never figured out what it was we were doing different.

2. Courage is a much more important commodity when the LOWEST speed corner is 60 km/h then it is when the highest speed corner is 60 km/h.

3. The paxes actually work very well on the right course, and Sunday was the right course

4. Civics do suffer from fuel starvation around 1/4 tank.

5. Driving in such a manner as to avoid fuel starvation yields some vastly improved lap times!

6. CADL and MCO are two young clubs when it comes to Solo-2 competitors.

7. Flying-J sells cheap gas! (91.9 in Napanee, 99.9 in Montreal, 91.9 in Napanee) :D

8. The buffet at the Fifth Wheel near Cornwall isn't nearly as good as the one near in Bowmanville.

[MitS]

8. The buffet at the Fifth Wheel near Cornwall isn't nearly as good as the one near in Bowmanville.

The one in Bowmanville is good?

[Marsh]

The one in Bowmanville is good?

For the money. It's a small buffet and everything is home-style cooking. Roast beef, mashed potatoes, bbq chicken wings, rice, corn, carrots etc. I've been told that it's a standard Fifth Wheel thing, but the one in Cornwall didn't have as good a selection. There were 3 meat choices and they were all pork.

[Wedge]

4. Civics do suffer from fuel starvation around 1/4 tank.


Technically, I'm the one who learned that...

I always learn things the hard way. This lesson dropped me from 2nd in class, to 4th. AND cost me beating the owner of the car... :(

I always love racing in Quebec. I've never come home disappointed after any event there.

[craig]

The food may have been better at some fifth wheels, but the brasserie food was good, and there were other attractions :eek: ;).

Some video posted on the CADL site:
http://cadl.qc.ca/portail/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=1205

The first vid are three runs (this is a CADL driver, so there is no stopbox); the second/third is from the brasserie - unfortunately, the attractions mentioned above do not appear. (Yes, that is the CADL organizer.)

BTW, understeer or oversteer? :D
http://images10.fotki.com/v209/photos/1/19171/2531689/DSC_4561-vi.jpg

(Full pics from Robert at http://public.fotki.com/robertsub/pmg_14_aot_solo_2/ )

WIL:
- having ASS on your car is not good for pictures.
- all the other drivers (and cars) in ASS were better than me. However, I was on R's, and they were on stock tires :D.
- now I know why I felt the need to throw a "radial tire repair kit" in the car for the event.

Thanks to all the folks from points west who trekked out! :cool:

[Wedge]

BTW, understeer or oversteer? :D
http://images10.fotki.com/v209/photos/1/19171/2531689/DSC_4561-vi.jpg



At that exact point in time I was in the middle of a perfectly neutral 4-wheel drift. :D

If conditions had stayed like that first run all day, I think I could have taken 1st.

[1morelap]

#1. waking up in your own bed makes for faster lap times, well that and maybe driving your friends Mustang might help.

#2. My mustang will be getting a new gear ratio and a bit more power over winter

#3. The Blue Mustang will be getting his own set of R' compounds next year

#4. MCO/CADL host the best events ever, including the best place to celebrate, did anybody chk out the view from the bar .. ahhhhhhhh yeah

#5. getting home from a regional event in 1 hour makes me think we should hold more regionals out here. (heehee just kidding ;) )


Awesome weekend! Thanks for all the coneheads making the super long drive, I know what it's like and it was really appreciated! Big thumbs up!!!!!!
Who's ready to defend the trophy next year?!! :D

[Gen1GT]

1. Oversteer is fun

2. I'm still not used to driving on R Compounds. Apparently you can just keep turning the steering wheel and the car will continue to turn further

3. Ontario roads really do rock. As much as we bitch and complain, I don't realize how good they are until I leave the province.

4. Quebec's signage is superior though.

5. After driving 7 1/2 hours on the highway, closing your eyes to go to sleep 20 minutes later will only yield visuals akin to 130kph on the darkened 401

6. Apparently the 'Pull Fist Up And Down' maneuver to entice truck drivers to blow their air horn is a lost art. It took 15 attempts to get a truck driver to blow his horn on the drive home.

[haniforama]

6. Apparently the 'Pull Fist Up And Down' maneuver to entice truck drivers to blow their air horn is a lost art. It took 15 attempts to get a truck driver to blow his horn on the drive home.

[joke mode on]
It's a lot easier if you just cut in front of them, and then slam on the brakes :D
[/joke mode on]

[opal]

1. Thinking you have no grip when, in fact, you have lots means you turn INTO a cone. Doh!

2. Smoothies at an event. Now, if that isn't brilliant, I donno what is.

3. I love Quebec, but apparently the feeling isn't mutal. The province is trying to kill me: wheat everything, even almonds on the damn fish. I give up. From here on, screw directions to the event, I'm printing out directions to every Indian restaurant within a 20 km radius.

4. Is it a requirement for Miata drivers to follow the "too much information" code? :D

5. I was dreading the rain, but in retrospect, I wish it had kept up.

6. No ride alongs, CADL? Where's the fun in that?

7. I'd forgotten how antsy the pointing, snickering, and staring at the Insight makes me feel. :(
The laughing wasn't really necessary, was it?

8. Coming home to cat puke all over the apartment really makes my morning better. :rolleyes:

[StewPiddass]

1- 1306 km is 92 litres of gas in a Civic (the way I drive anyway, including 10 competition runs) (7.04 litres per 100km... is that good?)
2- Am I ever glad I spent 15 years in french schools, helps when ordering dinner for 25.
3- Ditto on the roads Opal, try 500lb spring rates
4- A wheel with a big crack in it loses about 20-25 lbs of air in an hour
5- Stopping every hour on the way home to put in air makes for a long trip (thanks to Daniel, Ivano, Pete, Mike, Luca and Brian for sticking with me and making sure I got home ok)
6- A tire with a screw in it loses about 10 lbs of air a day.
7- A tire with a repaired patch in it will lose all of its air overnite too.
8- Waking up this morning to 3 out of 4 tires flat is not good.
9- My car looks (and handles) like ass on my mother-in-law's 14" snowtires
10- PMG is frikkin' huge!
11- Losing in your own car sucks (especially 2 events in a row...) Good driving Stef.
12- Interprovincial Cup was a great idea, we need to do that more
13- Don't mention to anyone you drove 1306 km for 248.17 seconds of seat time
14- Don't ever say: "you know I've been doing this for 5 years now and still haven't broken anything yet..."


Congrats to MCO and CADL for putting on a great event and to Carl for setting up a great course.

[Greg F]

[joke mode on]
It's a lot easier if you just cut in front of them, and then slam on the brakes :D
[/joke mode on]


Heh heh, but what does the chrome horn on an 18-wheeler do to a Civic? :cool:

[superdave]

1. Quebec roads suck
2. Its worth the drive and expense to compete at PMG
3. MCO/CADL know how to host and event
4. I wish I knew how to speak french :(
5. Rubbing sucks (see #1)
6. PAX does work... FSS is still way off from getting 100's in pax, not because of improper pax numbers, but because of improper/underpreped cars.
7. I need a better prepped car (see #6)
8. Paying $400/hour for PMG and taking a half hour lunch break doesn't make sense (to me atleast)
9. Redbull helps me get through lots of driving after lack of sleep ;)
10. 11 straight hours of sleep after such a tiring weekend feels great. :D

[tanney]

3. Ontario roads really do rock. As much as we bitch and complain, I don't realize how good they are until I leave the province.

Ontario roads are great..... Roads in the GTA suck!

13- Don't mention to anyone you drove 1306 km for 248.17 seconds of seat time
In 2002 we drover 1100km for 120.2 seconds of seat time......

Ditto on the roads Opal, try 500lb spring rates

Try 1000lb, with an almost unpadded race seat.

11 straight hours of sleep after such a tiring weekend feels great.
Personally I haven't had 11 straight hours of sleep since......, well, 1984! And that was alcohol induced!

Wish I would have made it. Hey s*** happens, maybe next year.

[J.C.]

I'm a voyeur and its fun to watch.