Was SCCA Solo II now.. how do you read the results...

[nealtovsen at yahoo.com (Neal Tovsen)]

Thanks for the notice! 

We had some...er..."issues" during the ProSolo on Sat/Sun. The cylinder head
decided to puke an intake valve seat above the #4 piston. Understandably, Greg
Olsen decided to drive something more reliable (a <GASP> Honda!), so the
"thanks Neal" really is more of a "thanks Chris"! But we managed to get the
head fixed by a very friendly machinist up the road, and the car ran great
through the Championship competition. Unfortunatly, the "other head" in the car
was a little low on compression for my runs, especially the 1st day, so I'll
have to settle for 20th. But it was good fun!

I had a bit of a rough week, and didn't drive so well. Katie, on the other
hand, did quite well, and picked up the slack for me. :)


Street Modified Ladies       Drivers: 4     Trophies:2 					
T 	1 	91 	Debbie Fessler 	94 Honda Civic White 	Kumho 	52.994(1) 	DNF 	50.220 
110.019
			Sylvania, OH 	Kumho Tires & JBRW 		61.444(1) 	59.799 	65.112(2) 	
T 	2 	10 	Katie Lacey 	77 Volkswagen Scirocco Gold 	Hoosier 	56.140(1) 
56.360(2) 	51.935 	111.553
			Apple Valley, MN 	Project No Cones 		60.424 	59.618 	63.661(2) 	-1.534

The way you read the results (if the lines don't wrap...grr...) is as follows:

- The first three numbers in each row are the times for each run. The top row
is the 1st day, and the bottom row is the 2nd day. A number in parenthesis is
the number of cone penalties which were included in the time. So Katie's first
run had 1 cone, which means here RAW time was a 54.140 + 2.000 penalty for the
cone.

- The last number on the top row is your score, calculated by adding together
your best times from each day (51.935 + 59.618 for Katie).

- The last number on the bottom row is the differential between yourself and
the driver above you. Katie was 1.534sec slower than Debbie.

AFAIK, she had the highest-placing VW at the event! She got lucky and had rain
for the 2nd day. The car just seems to love the rain, and she had the fastest
2nd day time in her class, bumping her up to a solid 2nd place! I was really
looking forward to making up for my bad 1st day performance, but the course was
dry by the time my class ran.

Doug Tulie and Ian Overholt both did very well for their first trip to
nationals in FSP too! And if you haven't seen it before, oh-my-gawd is that car
ludicrously clean. I wonder if Doug would go faster if he wasn't as worried
about cone marks on that shimmering paint. :) It was a pleasure to finally meet
you guys, and thanks to all the VW people from FSP (most not on this list
AFAIK) for all the help and support when our car broke.

Neal

> Message: 23
> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:56:42 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Brian <brianm@earendel.org>
> Subject: Was SCCA Solo II now.. how do you read the results...
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
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> 
> Replying to my own messages..Hmm.. now how exactly do you read these 
> results...
> 
> 
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Brian wrote:
> 
> > http://ww2.scca.com/soloresults.php?ID=25
> > Looks like he placed 20th.. CONGRATS Neal....
> > T 1 198 Vic Sias 95 BMW M3 Yellow Kumho 49.259(1) 48.771(1) 46.518 95.636 
> >   [98] Santa Clara, CA SiasTuning  53.237(1) 49.361 49.118 
> > ....
> > 
> > 20 10 Neal Tovsen 77 Volkswagen Scirocco Gold Hoosier 51.789(1) 50.067
> 51.329(1) 101.974 
> >       Apple Valley, MN Project No Cones  54.798(1) 53.845(1) 51.907 -0.072 
> > 
> > 21 11 Greg Olsen 86 Honda Civic White Kumho 53.789(2) 51.956(1) 49.530
> 102.005 
> >      [111] Ellicott City, MD Thanks Neal! NGP Racing  56.340 52.475
> 53.503(1) -0.031 
> > 
> > ...
> > 41 27 Zachariah Myler 97 Bmw M3 White Hoosier 55.764(2) 53.116(1) 50.288 
> > No Time 
> >    Austin, TX Wyler Supersports  DNS DNS DNS 
> >