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[Juan Pineda]

Awesome race! Lots of action. Provisional results:

 

http://checkerlap.co...e9a28000248857d

[Juan Pineda]

Fantastic job Kyle -- 10th to 2nd!

[Bruce Wilson]

Damn, new page

 

WAY TO GO MATT!  You've worked so hard for this...  What a machine you are!!!

 

Oregon boys show up again!  Good job Sean and Ken!

 

Old guy rules

 

Congrats Kyle!

[Bad Rusty]

Congrats Matt and way to move up Kyle! Haag will be happy:)

[dp35]

Congrats to Matt & Kyle, two guys that often show up alone & do their own work. You guys are legit now. Not sure about Matt at Miller, but I know Kyle was there alone & he pulled an all nighter swapping engines on the first night.

West Coast seemed pretty well represented, despite Will not in the main. Seems like if Miatacage had worked together more it would've been theirs to lose (my $0.02 from the computer screen view).

[Craig Berry]

Great Race! Very smooth, smart race for Matt. Way to hang in for a hard fought podium Trevor!

[Ron Alan]

Great Job Kyle! Our only NorCal representative with a chance and you made us proud! I guess it was fate I couldn't make it to help you...you accomplished a motor change, diff change and what ever else you did on your own! Now let's get through tech and post race contact forms and hope all finishes the same!

Great win Matt!! You've always raced in the shadow of several other top guys but this was going to happen eventually!

[Jim Drago]

Congrats to all!  

[Johnny D]

Awesome race!!

Congrats to Matt and all.

Way to go Kyle, great job!!!

J~

[Ron Alan]

Congrats to Matt & Kyle, two guys that often show up alone & do their own work. You guys are legit now. Not sure about Matt at Miller, but I know Kyle was there alone & he pulled an all nighter swapping engines on the first night.
West Coast seemed pretty well represented, despite Will not in the main. Seems like if Miatacage had worked together more it would've been theirs to lose (my $0.02 from the computer screen view).

Sure did seem like Sean and Ken battled more than they worked together?

[Rob Burgoon]

The problem apparently is the same one we complain about all the time... nasa has made it worse by instructing the pace car to drive so slowly ( 25-30 mph is what I have heard) so in typical fashion, the pole sitter and the guys at the front get hosed, each row jumps the start just a bit more than the one in front of them and before you know it, the guys on the front row are gobbled up by the guys in the 5th and 6th row.  

Say what you like about the guys in the SE, the starts we have had and that at the runoffs usually go offwithout a hitch. While they may not be by the 'book' they are fair to all. NASA needs give the pole sitter a litle latitude in order to set the pace of the start on this championship race or the same thing is going to happen today. If we are all being honest with ourselves, most would agree if the start is that slow and you find yourself in row 6, most are guessing at the green and not waiting on the green to fly. The guys on the front row don't have that luxury. 

 

Good luck to all. 

 

Jim

 

Lobby to change it then.  At my local circle track the pole is explicitly allowed to accelerate after turn 3, passing is allowed once green is shown.

[JRHille]

Congrats to Matt for the win and shoutout to Kyle in p2 for he was up all night swapping motors on Wednesday. Well deserved. And congrats to all other SM drivers for the best racing NASA has

[Bruce Wilson]

For those who don't know, this is Matt's second national championship, the first being in Karting years ago.  He does all of his own work and also builds his own engines, which puts him in a very unique category, even in Spec Miata.  From what I hear, that is how he won his karting title as well.  We often kid him about how he keeps making changes to his setup and how many engines he's built.  It was pretty obvious early in the race that he had hit the setup at just the right time.  Lori, Jordan and I are so happy for you Matt!

[Johnny D]

For those who don't know, this is Matt's second national championship, the first being in Karting years ago.  He does all of his own work and also builds his own engines, which puts him in a very unique category, even in Spec Miata.  From what I hear, that is how he won his karting title as well.  We often kid him about how he keeps making changes to his setup and how many engines he's built.  It was pretty obvious early in the race that he had hit the setup at just the right time.  So happy for you Matt!

Wow, I'm sure a lot of us didn't know this, a well deserved congratutions.

I'm sure the bigger prize is just him knowing I did it my way and won.

True grass roots as it should be.

J~

[JRHille]

Oh and Chris haldeman kinda looks like John Belushi, just sayin

[Duane Polsley]

Big congrats to Matt and Kyle. Bummer about Will I think he was the fast guy early in the week.

 

Any word on tech ?

 

Heard some protest paper was floating around, Any word on that ?

 

Awesome race on Speedcast, and great job by all SM particapants.

[Ron Alan]

Oh and Chris haldeman kinda looks like John Belushi, just sayin

In that case he should have just come on here and yelled "Food Fight"

But this does fit the persona I have pictured of him...lol

[john mueller]

Big congrats to Matt and Kyle. Bummer about Will I think he was the fast guy early in the week.

 

Any word on tech ?

 

Heard some protest paper was floating around, Any word on that ?

 

Awesome race on Speedcast, and great job by all SM particapants.

 

Top three cars passed tech.

 

I'll write more tomorrow...  I'm to tired to do it now.

[dfuser]

This was my first NASA national event and surely not my last.  Overall I am very happy with how the events went.  Some crazy driving in qual race 2.  Not happy with my rookie move on qual race one, cost me a DQ, and a 31st position start for the final race.  Chris Haldeman and I worked together to move through the field, Chris had an incident right when the green dropped and caused us to loose touch with the rest of the field.  We managed to move to 11 and 12th before his diff broke.

 

I was told the coverage mainly covered the top 5.  I will post some of our videos from back of the field

 

Chris is an amazing guy.  Thanks for all the help in making my car a rocket ship.  Led most of the first qual race and pole for the second, and certainly a great car to drive for the final.

 

It was great meeting most of the drivers and hope to see most of you again for another championship.

 

NASA thx for listening to our suggestions and implementing what makes this a great series,

[Todd Lamb]

Congrats to all, now go win that Mazda shootout!