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2015 Ascutney I Media
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I'm still amazed that I can do all this with a phone. This was my final run at 3:04.57 which I was a new best for myself, and I was quite happy with the improvement.
Most of the improvement is because I'm feeling more comfortable with the bottom part of the course. The lower part of the hill has been the toughest for me to commit to memory of all the hills. Weather was just about ideal, and grip seemed real good by the end of the weekend.

I've had the most problem with committing the bottom part of Ascutney to memory also. I pretty much know it now but for the longest time I would get lost in spots. It just seemed like some parts looked a lot like other parts. The top has never been a problem that way. I still don't know it the way I know Burke or Okemo. With either of those I can close my eyes and drive the whole course in my head.

Between the tree of fear and check 3 is still full of doubts, but I'm at least a bit more comfortable.
I've very comfortable from check 3 on in terms of feeling like I know which way the road goes, but not necessarily which is the ideal line.

KevinGale wrote:I've had the most problem with committing the bottom part of Ascutney to memory also. I pretty much know it now but for the longest time I would get lost in spots. It just seemed like some parts looked a lot like other parts. The top has never been a problem that way. I still don't know it the way I know Burke or Okemo. With either of those I can close my eyes and drive the whole course in my head.

The two right hand corners by check 2 and 3 always look the same to me, but have a different exit. I have to make sure I count checkpoints up until that point so I don't screw it up.

My fastest run of the weekend

Nice run Luke (darn bug!)... keep Kevin looking over this shoulder. Will be nice to see him actually shift more than twice at an event.

My best run of the weekend was good enough to beat my personal best by more than 3 seconds. I'm pretty satisfied that I managed to keep my weekend so risk-free. There were no sphincter-up moments, and at no point did I feel out of control. There were many times where I thought, "I would have gone a lot faster there if I had a cage", but just spent the weekend committing a few more chunks of the hill to memory.

I do need to increase the input gain on my audio a bit, and the 'exhaust mic' proved to be close to worthless. That might be because my exhaust is still OEM (in tact catalytic converter and all), or because I couldn't find a good mounting point for the mic under the car, and left it in the trunk.

Should have been my best run of the day but the bumps after check 7 conspired to keep me from finding 3rd gear for what seemed like an eternity.

Still didnt set the world on fire... Trying to take it easy on the new transmission setup and slowly getting more comfortable with the non-boosted brake setup. I left the brake bias full forward all weekend as I felt I could wait a little while for rear out under braking drama.

Had a great time this weekend , Tara already booked a sight for September. I'm there dude.
I found this hill to be a lot of fun and beautiful, yeah it's rough at the top but it didn't really spook me as much as I was led to believe, reminded me of running beater cars through the woods as a kid(and as an adult.... ). I can't even say I had a favorite section I loved the whole hill. The technical parts were just everywhere which is how I like it so I give it a 10.