For those who didn't make it out, you missed out. Big time.
I was up early doing an oil change, gathering my slicks and track stuff up, packing up the car, washing it, and didn't leave until late. For anyone who's been to Fontana street legal events in the past you know what it's usually like when you get there at the crack of dawn and are still waiting to get through tech some 4+ hours later. So when I rolled through the entrance at just after 8am I was expecting the worst. Five minutes later when I was done with tech it was time to sit around and wait for the lanes to open up.
Let me repeat that. Front gate --> tech --> done = five minutes.
There were only something like 70 cars that made it out and I'd swear there was never that many there at any given time. It was like one of the private track rental days but only $20 instead of the usual $100+ they run. Towards the end of the day it got so slow there were a few passes that I didn't have anyone to go up against, and I'd get a run in every three minutes (the time it would take me to pick up my time slip and get back to the staging lanes).
I called a friend who was driving up from Temecula and he got there late and still got 29 passes in. I was playing around with stuff on the car and managed "only" about 22 passes
Overall it was a great day to practice but the track had really crappy conditions. It was hot and muggy and they weren't doing any prep after it opened, not even sweeping the surface, except after a couple times when some Honda guys blew up and oiled down an entire lane. I was on slicks and was averaging at best 13.40's at mid 104's with mostly 2.0 and a few 1.9 sixty-foot times. My friend who is also S2 and running high-octane mode was cutting mid to lower 14's at 100-101 with sixty foot times averaging 2.4-2.6 on street tires. To get an idea what everyone was running, a '05 Mustang GT ran 14.7 at 97, '08 Civic Si 15.9 at 89, an MS3 went 14.7 at 99. Most the other cars I raced were heavily modified Honda hatches, 'stangs, and a few muscle cars, or my friend.
Overall a lot of fun but would have been nice to have a little better track conditions and weather but I won't complain. I was up at the tower talking to the manager for a while and there's going to be some changes in the pipeline for future street legal events, some good, some not so good, but I'll post up another separate thread about those later. For anyone else interested there is another street legal day this upcoming weekend. The one on the 7th had originally been scheduled to be some private truck type event or something but was canceled at the last minute and they changed it over to a street legal day, so I'd expect next Saturday to be a lot busier since more people know about it but we can always hope.
^- yes I know I was asleep at the tree on that pass.
I was trying to data log during some runs and not worried about r.t. that much. It was kind of cool when me and my friend were racing and cut identical rt's down to the thousandth.
