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Early Christmas

I finally got my Tivo! An 80hr unit from Costco. I'm quite excited. Need to pick up a usb network adapter now, and I'll be all set. :-D

Also got some pics online of the new race wheels, which I mentioned the other day:

Gah, blank site...again.

So...finally got some new race wheels. Rota RB's. 13x8, 4x100, +4, 12lbs. Look like Panasports. Despite taking quite a few picture with my camera phone, somehow none of them managed to get online. Just trust me when I say they look cool, if you haven't seen them already. Especially before the first event, when they were all shiny. :-D Took them up to Chapman BMW to have tires mounted, as they have a shaving machine, and they were ready to go for the Thanksgiving weekend, when Tucson was holding events on both Saturday and Sunday. Due to relatively low turnout, we were able to get five runs each day, which was great. Brian co-drove my car both days as well, meaning my tires got a whopping 37 run on them. It was well worth it though. Brian took top pax on Saturday, and was a cone away from top pax on Sunday. I had a respectable 959 on Saturday, and after a little instruction, was able to score a 972 in TOs. Sunday was better still, as cone trouble for Brian meant I was less than a tenth behind him for comp runs, and I score a 987. Went faster still in TOs, and was close to a 1000, getting a 999. Maybe they round down or something, I don't know. ;-) Anyway, it was a lot of fun. Except for the weather. That wasn't so good. REALLY cold on several occasions, and we even had hail for a few seconds.

This past weekend wasn't quite as fun, as it rained a lot. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to change tires or anything...but as it was, a lot of stuff ended up getting wet, and my car smells kinda funky now. Saturday was the driver's school, and that was a lot of fun. All of my students seemed to learn a lot. One was turning some very impressive times, and it was only his first autocross ever. Another was picking up time all over the place on the slalom course, and was very pleased with his progress. The next day he was in his Integra, gridded right behind his dad's Boxster S, and despite starting with 2 DNF's, managed to beat his dad by over 2 seconds. Regardless of weather conditions, that still had to feel pretty good.

Race tires were worthless on Sunday, and my car felt much better on street tires. Teresa felt the same way in her car. Scores for people with races tires were generally pretty sad, especially those with RWD and/or decent power. I didn't quite do well enough to beat Joe Moritz for the fall season combined Street Prepared class, but I finished the ASC (class by myself), so I should get another trophy there. :-P