Congrats Noel! Good to see 'one of ours' take the honors. As for me, I was
robbed. ;) Had a solid first run good enough for 4th overall at the time,
and I knew there was at minimum a half second to be had in my second run,
but it was not to be. Felt like the second car I ended up with (one of the
maroon ones) had front Falkens that were heat cycled to death and/or abused.
I got into an understeer situation and couldn't figure out how to get out of
it (silly FWD cars ;)).
Felt much more at home in the Miata at the test drive course.
I suggested next year they supply us with something RWD. ;)
Still had a great time though, 5th overall (maybe slower, I left at 4PM)
isn't something to complain about. Still, I was mighty encouraged after my
first run and was hungry for a top 3 finish. To see it end in cone mowing
was a downer.
Bryan Heitkotter | 87 MR2
http://www.pbase.com/bryanh
Straightaways are for fast cars. Corners are for fast drivers.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Creasy" <james@thevenom.net>
To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 8:21 PM
Subject: !!! noel esporo (unofficially) wins Mazda Rev it Up !!!!
> noel ended up WINNING the event for the whole weekend! congratulations! i
> shouldnt have been joking around, cuz noel won it fair and square, got a
> couple of reruns and then took advantage of the course conditions and just
> drove the heck out of that car. he was .1 slower than the reference pax,
> which is supposed to measure the ideal time the best driver could set with
> endless practice on that course. andy clark (owns the mazdaspeed protege)
> was a really close second, but coned out on this second run. although the
> top 10 was almost entirely SFR region people, noel and andy were the ONLY
> people to run in the 33's in 1250+ drivers this weekend.
>
> anywayz, congrats again noel, that was really impressive!!!!!!!
>
> -james
>
> (ps noel, send the check to the usual address)
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