NASA AZ - General Discussion

St. Johns Airport Grand Prix

Dave "turtlespeed" Schutt — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:59:14 GMT

Was this a one time thing back in the day or are there clubs still running it?

Garage for Miller

rondawg — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:04:58 GMT

I have a gararge for Nats. $395 for the week if anybody is in need.

The Stig's identity is revealed...

Thaler — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:45:57 GMT

Take a look. Guess they are making his identity public...

The Stig's true identity...

Log Book

rmoudry — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:06:00 GMT

Can anyone tell me where I can buy a hard cover log book?

Thanks

Nationals

Toyo Guy — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:45:37 GMT

Just a reminder to the people headed to Nationals to please get your tire orders in as soon as you can.. I will be there open for business Tuesday. We will also have our shaver there so if you have tires that need to be cut down and unable to get to the shop before we leave we will do it there at the track.

Just look for the Toyo semi truck and you will find us!

August 14-15 Wraps Up

leadfootgurl — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:24:58 GMT

Hey folks... the latest event Wrap Up is now live on the NASA-AZ website; have a look here: http://www.nasaaz.com/uncategorized/...4-15-wraps-up/

For those of you traveling to Miller for Nationals, I've included a few links you might find useful.

Special thanks to everyone involved in making this event a success!

:thumbsup:

Big brake special for Honda and Acura

Levy Racing — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:16:45 GMT

As AZ's largest Wilwood dealer we get specials every once in a while. I have 1 for you now. This is a limited time offer.
11" or 12.19" 4 piston front kits including lines and fittings- $499 plus shipping
This is a great deal. The cars they fit are;
Honda Civic 1988-2008 HB/Coupe/Sedan w/ 240mm Rotor Spindles
Honda CRX 1988-1991 HF/DX/SI w/ 240mm Rotor Spindle
Honda Del Sol 1993-1997 All w/o ABS
Acura EL 2001-2005 All (Canada)
Acura Integra 1990-2001 All, Exc. Type R
Honda Civic 1990-2005 Sedan/Coupe EX/DX/SI w/ 262mm Rotor Spindles
Honda Del Sol 1994-1997 w/ABS
Acura RSX 2002-2006 All Including Type S
Honda Civic 2004-2005 Hatchback SI (5 Lug)

Give me a call at 520-494-2745

TT Director staff change

Tage — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:54:27 GMT

After 12+ years of track driving and about half of those years serving NASA Arizona exceptionally well, Brady Dohrmann (TT Director) decided to "retire" from the sport we all love (and sometimes hate). Words can't describe the gratitude for Brady's leadership, rules expertise, tech support, download skills, event write ups/Who's Who articles, (sometimes) humorous/controversial banter on the forum and a ton of general admin support.

I want to wish all the best to Brady and hope that he becomes as competitive in his "ironman" quest (or whatever else his new hobby becomes) as he was in a race car.

The good news is we have already found a replacement. Effective immediately Eric Jacobsen will assume the role of TT Director along with Jeremy Renshaw to lead our local TT program. Eric's positive/professional attitude, soft skills, rules expertise and all around "nice guy" demeanor made him a perfect fit and an obvious choice.

Eric is a regular Time Trial competitor and is already well known in the TT community. Eric is one of our regular instructors and unfortunately his new role will limit his ability to instruct full time in the future. While not an optimal situation to have to "rob Peter to pay Paul" we feel the net overall result was the right thing to do and Eric will help the organization continue to grow even stronger than before.

Please help me congratulate Eric!

http://www.nasaaz.com/contact/ <-- 6th person down

Toronto Motorsports Park

Dave "turtlespeed" Schutt — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:49:34 GMT

So I'm talking to this dude who lives up in Canada-eh and he said he took his car out on the RC for the first time. Darn near drop bricks when I saw his picks and heard his story. He's out there with his 06 GTO, no helmet, windows up and buddy in the passenger(no helmet) at full speed. Sounds bad enough until he tells me about the metal debris that flew off someones car and lands in the race line that everyone was swerving to avoid. He tells the track official and the response he got back was, "So? you wanna go get it?"

Tell me tracks really aren't run this way.

NASA AZ League Race # 2

STEVE LATTANZI — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:49:17 GMT

Sunday August 29th will be the 2nd race of the 5 race NASA AZ league series.
Check in by 12:30 and qualifying to start at 1pm.
5 minute Qualifier...15 minute Heat...25 minute Main... Track 1 c/c/w
Weight equalized to 200#
16 NASA League racers signed up as of Friday 8/20
Racer cap of 30. Don't be late or you may have to spectate!
$45.00 plus tax of your hard earned dollars to do this and potential bragging rights with a podium finish.

Online sign up at www.f1racefactory.com/nasa

See most of you soon.

Keep the Rubberside Down!

Steve "Kandyman" Lattanzi
Team Titanium/Checkered Flag Racing
steve@f1rf.com
602-427-4416
602-321-2035(m)

LAST CHANCE! Harness shirts

The Missus — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:41:14 GMT

This is your last chance to order the one of a kind NASA AZ Harness Tshirts. I will be taking pre-orders until August 31st. Price is $12 sizes S-XL and $15 for size XXL.

If you have preordered and have yet to get your shirt please check the list below. I show the following people still outstanding:

Jake Treguboff
Brian Lenihan
Dave Montgomery
Chris Wynne
Jim Cozzolino
Adam Raspanti
Mark Alger
Harry Steiner
Richard Vela
Eric Dayton
San Tchao
Cate McCabe
Anthony Szirka

Couple of Things missing after last event..

IntegraLS — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:00:22 GMT

If anyone happened to pick up these items at the track please let me know! They are missed dearly!

12mm and 14mm Blackhawk Swivel head Ratcheting Wrenches.

They were out when I went to work the gate and were not back when I went to adjust my sway bar so they went MIA between 4.30 and 5.30!

Their safe return will be rewarded with cookies!

Who does real estate?

Levy Racing — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:59:43 GMT

I have a friend that is moving here from VA and wants to look at houses to buy. Contact me and I will give you his number.

Sound Log Results:

j0oftheworld — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:45:17 GMT

Online Spreadsheet

-There are 2 tabs (bottom left) for each event - June and August
-Sorted by run group/name
-If you ran both events and your sound reading differs please use the higher of the two for AMP's sake! :)
-If you're not familiar w. Excel Spreadsheets and need a hand PM me.

The goal is to have this info recorded inside the "front cover" of your log book.
If you don't have one please ask for one at the next event and fill it in w. as much detail as possible including the sound reading.
Sample: 99db 8/14/10 FIR West

If you don't have a sound measurement listed I either missed you, you were in a pack, or possibly your NASA profile is listing you as driving the wrong/or older car than what you had the day of the event. Please update your NASA profile online.

Thanks!

Cell phone datalogger/timer

AZElise — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:23:18 GMT

A couple of people were asking me about my phone this weekend so I thought I would share what I have learned. I have a Motorola Driod with the Trackaroo Trackmaster application ($10 I think). I have the cell mounted in the car and it displays fastest lap, elapsed time in the current lap, split time and last lap times with the last two displayed compared to the previous lap. It requires a little setup. You have to set up the start/finish line and any split markers you want with the application using google earth to mark them for every track. You also have to select which set of split markers to use when you get to the track. I have to turn on the logger/timer and start it so it will start logging automatically after I cross the start/fiinish line. I first used it with the phone's built in GPS. The lap times compared to transponder times were within 0.1 second. After I added a bluetooth external GPS ($55 for the unit and extra application) the results were within 0.03 seconds. The logger will display lap times, thoeretical best lap using the best split times and top speed of every lap along with tons of other information on the phone immediately after timing. It also can speak you lap times to you if you use a bluetooth headset. It can also Tweet your lap times in real time while on track! (I don't twitter)

Later I email an excel spreadsheet with tons of information to myself and make graphs and analize the data. When using only the phone's GPS it records 1 data point per second. This was not as useful as I had hoped. With the bluetooth GPS it records 5 data points per second (5Hz) and now I can see the speed loss during shifts and how much my speed varies in sweepers and is great information. However the G force information is slightly better than useless. I have borrowed a DL-1 which runs at 20Hz and has its own software for analizing data. The DL-1 G force information is extremely useful and the higher rate is unnessasary at my level of understanding but costs about 15 times as much.

Mylaps link for NASA AZ August 2010 Event at Firebird West

taynaj — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:21:30 GMT

http://www.mylaps.com/results/showevent.jsp?id=581081

NASA AZ t-shirt idea (with a twist)

v01canic — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:26:09 GMT

So im calling out for some help! Im looking for something similar to the already popular NASA AZ t-shirts but this is for my lovely wife who is always at the track supporting me.

Can we get a "Track Wife" t-shirt designed for the beautiful ladies in our life?

Did you know - Chuckwalla Vs Inde

944-spec#94 — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:55:10 GMT

Chuckwalla is closer than Inde? Ok from my house in Anthem Chuckwalla (that track along I-10 in california) is 3 hrs 57 minutues and 211 miles. Inde is 3 hrs 48 minutes and 233 miles.

Interesting fact...

Just Imagine if we could run a schedule like this.

Jan - AMP
Feb - Chuckwalla
March - PIR
April - Firebird Main
May - Inde
June - Firebird east
July - Firebird West
September - Inde
October - AMP
November - PIR(for thanksgiving of course!)

Wow that would be really cool. 7 differet tracks in the first 7 events? :thewave:

Yeah don't worry Tage this more of fantasy than reality, but one can dream right. :mrgreen:

Funny video...

Thaler — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:01:52 GMT

I think every instructor has bumped into somebody like this at least once...

You Tube

Before I was an instructor I remember a kid who showed up with a yellow modified 911 turbo. He even went and rebadged it as a GT2. He was walking around like he was the best driver ever and even refused to let the instructor drive the first couple laps because, as the kid said, "the instructor can't afford this car if he crashes it". As expected, he was totally inexperienced and slowed down a lot of cars on the track. During the off track time he would constantly talk about how he has gone 200mph.

That was the first time I ever saw somebody at the track driving with their radar detector on the windshield. I told him he could take it down because it is legal to speed on the track. He didn't find that funny.