[SECC] SECC Spring Autocross Comments on Virtual Vairs

[sarahvair at juno.com]

Scott Trunkhill:
 Just made it back from a great weekend of autocrossing in St 
Augustine. Temperatures around 70 and mostly sunny both days. Two 
days of fast racing. Grassroots Motor Sports magazine came by on 
Saturday to take some photos. Hopefully in the near future they will 
run some of them in the magazine.

As you can see from the photos I took an of course excursion and 
picked up a little mud. I did manage to win first in IS-5.

I have posted some photos on my WEb site http://corvair.us

Padgett Peterson:
 Drove up to St. Augustine for the SECC autocross and had a great time. 
Beautiful weather (what we Floridians put up with summer for). Two 
different surfaces - one area a large skid pad and each day just had one 
hook so easy to trap the unwary.

Second day was even higher speed with a "top o'third" three cone 
slalom on 
the front straight and a similar three gate array on the back with about a 
block of straight leading to each. On the backside I had to keep repeating 
to myself  "Don't lift until nose is in the first gate". Is hard 
sometimes.

The "club car" concept is really a great one for all levels of 
experience. 
Norm and Bob have done most of the work on the car including a fast fuel 
filter change with blow out of the fuel line on Sunday. With many drivers 
and a host of people taking fun runs, solid and reliable is the way to go. 
Definitely shows that a good 110 can stay with the 140s and any Corvair 
with trombones is going to make music.


 
Chuck Armer:
It was just another beautiful sunny day in the oldest US city. The 
bright blue sky was mixed with an
occasional puffy white cloud and the combo was perfect for 
"FastEddie" Meadows 2nd variation to his
outstanding autocross setup at yet another exciting SECC racing 
event. FE had set up a course which
was about 7/10 of a mile and had only 5 turns (curves) in the whole 
course........read fast into that mind
picture you have. The Georgia connection was well represented as we 
had added Ray Paul and Al Hilderbrand
to the mix. Ray and Al have their Corvairs prepared for dragrace 
activities but had decided to support SECC
and in the process both had a great time and very decent times on 
both Saturday and Sunday. Ray had the
fastest time of the weekend for the Georgia racers with an 
outstanding 49+ second run on his very last run.
Now mind you this is with an automatic, lightened, LM convertible 
with skinny tires up front. Way to go Ray!
I, FrontMan, had a 51+second run in WTBRT but couldn't quite catch 
him. "MudFlap" was sooooooo shook up
after his swamp buggy soiree that added at least 10 lbs of Florida 
Goo to #112, that he couldn't get below a 52+ for the
heat. Al's times were in the mid fifties and this was quite good as 
he was running on street tires and he is also
setup to dragrace not autocross. The FTD of the day was 45 or 46 
seconds by a 2005 WRX Subaru AWD turbo.
He beat Joe Dunlap by less than a second. Joe was driving his LM 
coupe with the sweet engine that Dave Clemens
had built for Joe. Now, when you hear that, Ray Paul's run is even 
more meaningful. "MudFlaps" aka Scott Trunkhill
aka "BeefJr" bested the FrontMan for the TWO day aggregate score by a 

total of 112.38 to 113.76.   WTBRT #112
has now run 333 runs without any mechanical failures and we are 
really spoiled. Anyone who has watched FM and BeefJr drive knows that 
we do not baby the Beef car. We only do the normal things you should 
do before racing. I am pleased about what this little Corvair has 
accomplished, how Scott has evolved as a competent driver and how 
much fun racing a Corvair on a limited
budget is and will continue to be in the future exploits of the 
"Where's The Beef Racing Team".


Chuck Armer dba
FrontMan
WTBRT PR
#112 / 333 and counting



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