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A Fine and Lucky Day of Driving
09/06/2003 Autocross PCA-NCR

In addition, the sponsor NTB has an end-of-year raffle for a set of tires, and my name was drawn! Almost time to change the 3-year-old Kumho's anyway. They'll survive the 2 more likely events this season. Quite a few things have to add up to have my stock car with almost no camber, get the better of the fast drivers and the monster cars. And I don't jump the car off the line or shift into second faster than the car wants.

* The course was very fast in several parts, a bit over 75mph in third once. This allows the power of the -6 to keep me ahead of the 914-4's. Also the 4-cyl gear ratios would make them shift into 4th after 71mph.

* There were tight turns before the fast sections, so the 914 could reduce the advantage of the high-HP cars by taking those turns faster and using that additional speed all the way down.

* And the straights weren't straight, but a narrow, stable, light car could jog through two 3-cone slaloms and a few wide gates without lifting.

* 100 feet from the finish was a square right-then-left box (with about 30 cones) that was tailor-made for small cars. Once tires were warm and I got the feel of it, I could blast through it without bogging in 2nd, getting the most of the last 100 feet. Stopping in there was a sure time-killer.

* The course was not very technical this time, so the really experienced people couldn't out-think the rest of us with special lines through certain areas.

Place	Class	#		Driver	Car Model	Time	Difference	From 1st
1	6	75		Mark Skala	914-6 1970	60.983	0.000	0.000
2	14	40		Charles Stromeyer	993 Turbo 1997	61.065	0.082	0.082
3	11	97		Fred Denapoli	996 1999	61.082	0.017	0.099
4	9	66		Steve Ross	Boxster 2000	61.441	0.359	0.458
5	15	86B		John Hanson	914 1971	61.738	0.297	0.755
6	13	311		Steve Berry	944S2 1989	62.513	0.775	1.530
7	9	257A		Colin Blake	Boxster 2003	62.749	0.236	1.766
8	9	81A		Mark Sellers	Boxster 2001	63.035	0.286	2.052
9	11	999		Ron Mann	996 2000	63.203	0.168	2.220
10	1	914		Mark Schnoerr	914 1974	63.493	0.290	2.510
11	1	1		Chris Darminio	914 1976	63.548	0.055	2.565
12	9	81		Chris Jacques	Boxster 2001	64.187	0.639	3.204
13	12	37		David Mancini	996 Turbo 2003	64.191	0.004	3.208
14	9	777		Fred Cowen	Boxster 1999	64.366	0.175	3.383
15	15	50C		James Demers	944T 1986	64.737	0.371	3.754
16	10	47		Eric Kessel	911 Carrera 2 1990	64.776	0.039	3.793
17	1	914B		Sigrid Schnoerr	914 1974	64.853	0.077	3.870
18	5	11		George Rouhart	968 1993	65.168	0.315	4.185
19	5	120		Tom Gurski	968 1993	65.349	0.181	4.366
20	15	59		Jim Logan	911T 1970	65.552	0.203	4.569
21	2	41		David Porter	924S 1987	65.832	0.280	4.849
22	9A	9		Rob Figler	Boxster S 2001	65.840	0.008	4.857
23	9	257B		Loosey Blake	Boxster 2003	66.015	0.175	5.032
24	11	17		Bruce Kennedy	996C4S 2002	66.082	0.067	5.099
25	16	94		Eric Hartwig	Honda Civic Si 2000	66.495	0.413	5.512
26	9	34		Oliver Lucier	Boxster 1998	66.580	0.085	5.597
27	14	126		Henry Fisher	930 1976	66.596	0.016	5.613
28	15	50A		Scott Martineau	944T 1986	66.804	0.208	5.821
29	16	434		Marc Dove	318is 1992	66.844	0.040	5.861
30	9A	51A		John Leach	Boxster S 2000	67.044	0.200	6.061
31	4	135		Kevin Bobbitt	944S2 1989	67.628	0.584	6.645
32	2	44B		Bob Roche	944 1989	67.861	0.233	6.878
33	6	35		Judy Hendrickson	914-6 1971	68.692	0.831	7.709
34	15	50B		Andrew Anastasio	944T 1986	68.798	0.106	7.815
35	16	199		Malcolm Lawson	Mini Cooper 2002	69.214	0.416	8.231
36	11	7		Paul Tallo	993 C4S 1998	69.337	0.123	8.354
37	16	434A		Rachel Williams	318is 1992	69.398	0.061	8.415
38	15	45		Steve Smith	1983 944	69.757	0.359	8.774
39	2	22		Marc Gagnon	944 1987	69.862	0.105	8.879
40	11	774		Andrey Petrovsky	993 1996	70.082	0.220	9.099
41	8	14A		Jay Gratton	911 1985	70.112	0.030	9.129
42	9A	51B		Janet Leach	Boxster S 2000	70.233	0.121	9.250
43	2	20A		Dan Weier	944S 1987	70.508	0.275	9.525
44	15	86C		John A Hanson	914 1972	70.895	0.387	9.912
45	16	300		Mark Gallagher	BMW 325is 1987	70.931	0.036	9.948
46	7	10		Gerry Fitton	911SC 1981	71.420	0.489	10.437
47	9A	107		Greg Osche	Boxster S 2001	71.474	0.054	10.491
48	11	177		Walter Chang	911C 2002	71.516	0.042	10.533
49	5	11B		Betsy Rouhart	968 1993	71.799	0.283	10.816
50	2	44A		Lisa Roche	944 1989	74.207	2.408	13.224
51	11	97B		Roz Jones	996 1999	75.732	1.525	14.749
52	2	20B		Chris Weier	944S 1987	78.228	2.496	17.245
53	2	181		Jack Saunders	944 1987	85.261	7.033	24.278
54	6	95	*	John Himmelsbach	911T 1972	93.878	8.617	32.895
55	9	124		David Smith	Boxster 1998	OFF

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