Great job!

 

Thanks guys! It was absolutely a lot of fun. The easy part was the driving, the hard part was on the navigator dialing us in using the GPS and 2 stop watches at every mile marker. Hopefully next year we can get a few more F's out there!

Heres the in cab GoPro footage on YouTube from the start line...

 

Dat Launch...

"If you're driving an IS-F, you've done something right"

 

Great work and congrats!!

Just curious... what car won first place in your division?

 

job well done!!! congrats on the finish and showing everyone the F!!

 

Congratulations!!! Well done and like the others, way to represent!

 

Congrats!

Results are here: http://www.sscc.us/event_results/res...3-sscc.htm#125

Scroll down to 105 mph class.

 

Wow that looks like a lot of fun. Congrats man!

 

Beating a dead horse but WAY TO REP LEXUS MAN! Didn't see any other Lexus on the list....gives some recognition to the F brand.

 

Good work guys!

 

Congrats! Nice to see you out there representing the ISF! Your car looks great!

Now for those of us that don't quite understand this type of racing... what is the goal? It seems similar to bracket racing at a drag strip where you try to run as close to your dial in as you can, but around a road course? How do you determine what MPH bracket you'll be in (meaning, why the 105mph bracket)?

I know the above may seem like silly questions, but I'm generally curious as to how the various classes or brackets are determined. It would seem that a car's performance has very little to do with being able to win, so if you have a bone stock Honda Civic and a Navigator that can work a stop watch, that's all you need... or am I way off with this?

 

^ Good question, I would like to know the same thing, and why was it necessary to put all those decals on the car?

 

Thanks for the kudos!

The goal of the race is to come as close as possible to averaging your target speed as possible without breaking your tech speed or going below your minumum speed. My division was the 105mph division. For "Rookies" (first time event participants), you can only be in divisions 110 and lower. I picked this category because there are a lot of "sandbagging veterans" who race in the 110 class to beat the rookies. My tech speed (max speed) for the race was limited at 124mph, if I would have broken that I would have been DQ'd, and my minimum speed was 80mph, if I would have gone below that I would have been DQ'd as well. So basically im trying to average 105mph for 90 miles on an closed road cousre not a track. Our strategy (which worked) involved an excel spread sheet that had us reaching each mile marker at a specific time, within a thousandth of a second. At the beginning of the race you are playing "catch-up" because you are starting at zero, so for the first 1.6 miles I held at 118mph then started dialing it back down to about 110 for the next 50 miles or so. However, there are up hills, downhills, and turns which are all affecting your average speed and time. At around mile 70 or so there is a section called "the narrows" which is a 2 mile high speed mountain canyon section. This is the section that makes or breaks your race. We prcaticed here to where I felt comfortable driving at about 105mph through the canyon. Our spreadsheet had us coming through here at 95mph then exiting at 108mph. When you cross the finish line you want to hit a specific time, which for our division at 105mph was 51:4286 and we crossed at .5346 of a second fast, lol basically a blink of an eye! This time put our average speed at 105.0182 mph, but you are scored off of your time crossing the finish line and not you actual average speed.

Did this help, or just make it more confusing!!?? lol

 

The K&N and Optima decals were required because they were the main event sponsons. The other decals were team stickers and decals from sponsors who helped me with a few things. My team was "Team Invaders", the import car or foreign driver team. Our team took fourth overall. Lol, the Corvette teams snatched up the top spots!

 

Did you attempt to use the cars average speed function? I know its not as specific to the thousandths place, but curious if it would've worked.

Good times, sounds like a lot of fun!