Golden gate Lotus Club	Porsche Club (Loma Prieta Region)	Porsche Club (Santa Rosa)	Porsche Club (golden Gate)	AAS	SCCA-Sac chapter	SCCA-SFR	UFO	BMWCCA
Runs at	Marina	Marina	Santa Rosa airport		Marina,	Stockton		Marina	Marina
Classing	Marque specific + pax class, penalty for street tires+ fun		Marque specific + fun			SCCA	SCCA	SCCA+
Registration	Online only	Onsite	Onsite	?	Onsite	Onsite	Onsite + pre-reg online	Onsite	Online only
Registration line	< 1 minute	< 2 minutes	<2 minutes	?	5 minutes	5 minutes	Long	Long(can be 20 mins)	< 1 minute
Punctuality	*****	*****	****	?	****	****	**	*****	***
Results	Online, eventually	Online, not always published					Online, very fast	Paper within a few weeks. Can take months online.	?
Format	All day. 4 run groups, run morning and afternoon	All day. 2 run groups, morning and afternoon	All day. 4 runs groups, morning and afternoon		Half day. 4 run groups, either morning or afternoon		Half day, either am or pm. Possible fun runs	Half day, either am or pm. Possible fun runs	All day, 4 run groups, mornign and afternoon.
Typical number of runs	10	12	10		5	4	3-4	4
Cost	$53 (inc lunch)	$35	$30		$40	$30	$35	$35
Have to join something?	No, but being a member of GGLC ($25) allows early registration	No.	No	Join PCA	No	No, but need day membership ($15) or full SCCA membership$85	Yes, $85 to join SCCA
Use of time	****	*****	***
Quirks	Have to buy lunch	Seem to favor very tight 1st gear	Lot is a little small and dangerous	Loan me a Porsche and I'll tell you	Pax classes only for many cars Green pointer cones	Tiny lot		No pointer cones. Angular tight courses	No coursewalk before drivers meeting
Cone penalty	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1
Tech	None	Inspector walks paddock	Inspector walks paddock		Grid+sticker		Rigorous off-grid	On grid	Inspector walks paddock
Food	Lunch + bagels + soda	Water + optional lunch	No	?	Genies Weenies sometimes	Genies Weenies	Lunch truck	No	Soda and water + optional lunch

Bay Area Autox

	Golden gate Lotus Club	Porsche Club (Loma Prieta Region)	Porsche Club (Santa Rosa)	Porsche Club (golden Gate)	AAS	SCCA-Sac chapter	SCCA-SFR	UFO	BMWCCA
Runs at	Marina	Marina	Santa Rosa airport		Marina,	Stockton		Marina	Marina
Classing	Marque specific + pax class, penalty for street tires+ fun		Marque specific + fun			SCCA	SCCA	SCCA+
Registration	Online only	Onsite	Onsite	?	Onsite	Onsite	Onsite + pre-reg online	Onsite	Online only
Registration line	< 1 minute	< 2 minutes	<2 minutes	?	5 minutes	5 minutes	Long	Long(can be 20 mins)	< 1 minute
Punctuality	*****	*****	****	?	****	****	**	*****	***
Results	Online, eventually	Online, not always published					Online, very fast	Paper within a few weeks. Can take months online.	?
Format	All day. 4 run groups, run morning and afternoon	All day. 2 run groups, morning and afternoon	All day. 4 runs groups, morning and afternoon		Half day. 4 run groups, either morning or afternoon		Half day, either am or pm. Possible fun runs	Half day, either am or pm. Possible fun runs	All day, 4 run groups, mornign and afternoon.
Run Order	Random/pre-reg	Random	Random		By class, rotating	By class, rotating	By class, rotating	By class, rotating	Random pre-reg
Grid	Columns	LeMans	Stage and Grid		?	?	Columns. Back in on RG1	Columns. Back in on RG1	Columns
Timing	First 3 count	All count	All count		All count	All count	All count	All count	First 2 not counted
Typical number of runs	10	12	10		5	4	3-4	4	7
Cost	$53 (inc lunch)	$35	$30		$40	$30	$35	$35
Have to join something?	No, but being a member of GGLC ($25) allows early registration	No.	No	Join PCA	No	No, but need day membership ($15) or full SCCA membership$85	Yes, $85 to join SCCA	No. Can optionally joinUFO $15.
Time efficiency	****	*****	***		***		**	***	***
Quirks	Have to buy lunch	Seem to favor very tight 1st gear	Lot is a little small and dangerous	Loan me a Porsche and I'll tell you	Pax classes only for many cars Green pointer cones	Tiny lot		No pointer cones. Angular tight courses	No coursewalk before drivers meeting
Cone penalty	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1
Tech	None	Inspector walks paddock	Inspector walks paddock		Grid+sticker		Rigorous off-grid	On grid	Inspector walks paddock
Food	Lunch + bagels + soda	Water + optional lunch	No	?	Genies Weenies sometimes	Genies Weenies	Lunch truck	No	Soda and water + optional lunch

Another couple of cars from Saturday, Miata:



and a Z:

Video from Sacramento Enduro

Motion sickness is all I can say , I really wished for this to be over after 3 laps. I won my class with a pitiful time, only because I was the only entrant. Still it was nice to get a Bill Fleig memorial trophy, I remember him being superfast from Sac autoxes in the 90's.

Anyway, this is what 5 laps looks like.

Here's an gtech screenshot from a 2 lap run the previous day:

This shows two runs overlayed on top of one another, allowing analysis of driving.

AX-Analyst supreimposes the GTech data onto race video, which is really cool. Unfortunately it doesn't run properly on my 64 bit Vista Ultimate system....

Mounted the Toyo's

Had a busy lunchtime yesterday - bought a set of mint condition 14x6 wheels from a '99 from CL, then mounted up the R888's at Americas Tire. Will probably try them out at the Enduro in Stockton.

Here's what they look like after six minutes of autox and 300 miles

Body roll in stock Miata R

This is how the car rolled with a stock Miata R front sway bar (prior to 11/7/08). Hopefully it looks better now that I have the RB installed.

This is before installing the RB sway bar (i.e. before 11/7). Hopefully someone takes some photos so I can see how things change

Here's some video of other Miata runs at Marina. The video is shaky because the sun kept washing out the LCD viewfinder.

And here's the start of another Miata run:

Sunday was the last UFO event of the year. There were a lot of people. I planned to run group 2 or 3 so as to ensure a clean, rubbered in course. At the last moment I slipped back into group 1 to get home at a sane time. Something wrong with the sway bar, the car is pulling hard to the right. Never really figured out the course and ended up with a 68 second best run - although my fastest three times looked like about the fastest of the run group, the second and subsequent groups were much faster. Really need a 64-65 second time.

Back at home I worked on tweaking the suspension until it was dark. There's still a bit of a pull to the right, but not bad.

Installed the Racing Beat 1 1/8 away bar today. Spent a lot of time trying to get the adjustable endlinks right.

After changing the oil,I took the car for a test run up highway 9. When I got back I smelled burning oil. DISASTER. Opened the hood and oil was sprayed everywhere! I'd forgot the valve cover cap. Oh well...

Got an alignment today from Jack Chew in Hayward. Turns out the car was set to 0.8 degrees of positive camber front righjt and -0.8 front left. Eek.

The new alignment is -1.5 in front, 1/8 total toe out. -2.2 and zero toe in back.

One of the good things abput Jack is that it's fine to sit in the car during the alignment. This makes a significant difference to the setup.

Golden Gate Lotus Club Event

Here's my first run from the GGLC event. Just puttering around to get a feel for the course. this is also an example of what

Here's some video from the last autox