April 25-26 MoHud Autocross Results

(Photo courtesy of ‘Dannyboy’, full 500 image photoset available here)

April 25th was my first chance to autocross this season, at our old site at Adirondack Community College. We were unable to run there last season because of construction. But most of the lot was repaved, so conditions were better than ever except for a few rough spots.

Saturday the 25th was a test & tune, where I got the chance to see if my Kumho V710s still had life left. Turns out they do…

Sunday the 26th was MoHud’s first points event. Final results for Street Mod following (best times in bold, yours truly italicized):

1. 50.561+1 — 49.626+1 — 49.819+1 — 49.576 — 52.753+1
2. 51.776+DNF — 53.557 — 52.304 — 51.544 — 51.856
3. 53.557+1 — 54.052+DNF — 54.558 — 53.228 — 53.123
4. 56.806+1 — 55.736+2 — 55.157+1 — 54.574 — 54.613+1
5. 61.098 — 60.068 — 59.121+DNF — 56.165+DNF — 57.106+1
6. 65.341+DNF — 59.838 — 59.256 — 60.432 — 60.654
7. 83.224+DNF — 63.529 — 62.749+DNF

So I took a class win, off to a good start for the season. But the bigger accomplishment for me was taking FTD (fastest time of the day), by 6/10ths of a second. That’s a decent margin of victory, but of course I can’t take all the credit. Among my usual competition for top time of the day…

• The Evo was having teething issues with it’s new set-up, forcing him back onto street tires
• The STi did not make an appearance
• The green mod mk1 GTI wasn’t there; the driver had his (also prepped) ’94 Integra (EP class, ended up with the 2nd fastest time of 50.187)

And numerous others (like the CSP CRX Si) were simply off of their top game. And I was on mine. So it was a fun two days with good courses, and I ran well. What more can you ask for? (Stay tuned for the answer to that rhetorical question.)