A few notes from this past weekend:
The North Carolina Region of the SCCA is a great region. Registration and tech could not have been easier, the workers are awesome and the event is one of my favorites. I don't know why more carpetbaggers from the Great Lakes don't make the trip for this one. Picture perfect weather, 50 SMs entered, and at VIR for crying out load.
Chief steward announces during driver's meeting that bump drafting will now be permitted with the exception of braking zones and turns. Any bumpdraft that cause damage or loss of control will be considered avoidable contact as defined by the GCR. He is recommending that all SCCA regions adopt this ruling.
Major cluster-fooey on Saturday at the start. Not sure what happened - I was watching the flag stand to call the green for the missus and by the time I turned my head, little girly cars was a-goin every which-way. Wife avoids all contact and after 20 minutes to re-grid, race is timed-out at 5 laps. The re-start was an abortion and should have been waved-off but I imagine race control figured that would cause more carnage. Honest to God, why don't people form-up on re-starts? There was a pace car and still the back half of the field was strung-out. WTF?!
Mr. Ti-Speedy is the man, sweeping the weekend. Dan gave me a little coaching and I improved 2 full seconds over my previous personal best. Thanks Dan!
Weekend highlight: watching Machavern rocket down the pit straight in his old '63 Falcon. Holy moly, that never gets old.