Oskar and I are home from our weekend at Oma’s. Xavier’s staying until Patty comes up this next weekend. They boys had a great time Saturday burning off some steam running laps in the basement of the old house (still for sale if anyone’s interested), the mall and finally exploring the Elgin Public Museum. After that Chris and I went to the SCCA Chicago Solo awards banquet. I picked up my 9th place trophy (Wahoo!) and some Hoosier Tire door prize SWAG which the kids put to good use this morning. Some commented photos below. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Autocross’ Category
Weekend at Oma’s
Sunday, January 13th, 2008The Twin (Updated)
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Misc
Monday, September 4th, 2006I survived another two Chicago Autocross events. I finished poorly overall in both, but am starting to feel like I know the car. Chris had an alignment put on the car based on someone else’s recommendations (who is currently running first in our class in the same type of car) and after wearing the tires into the setup, the car felt good. I forgot the camera and so there’s no pictures of the event at all. I’ll see if I can find some online. Gretchen, Oskar and Xavier survived the two day event with some help from Patty. It’s looking to be a rainy Labor Day weekend here. We were hoping to go to Geneva today, so perhaps the rain will stop mid morning and we can enjoy the rest of the day.
Autocross Update
Monday, August 21st, 2006Results were posted for yesterday’s race, I didn’t do too bad in class 19th of 36, (Street Tire) - not quite into the top half, but overall on the PAX index I’m not doing as well as I did earlier in the year. Heading into the weekend I was 21st in Street Tire for the year (of 33 who had competed 2 events or more). We will see how that looks once they update the numbers with the fourth event.
Getting Ready for School
Saturday, August 19th, 2006Yesterday we finally bought Xavier his very own pair of Sneakers (7 1/2)! Yep, that’s right, no more hand me down sneakers for him. Oskar also picked up a backpack and another couple of pairs of sneakers (12) to round out his back to school supplies. Next we need to get some clothing for both of them! Oskar’s starting school on Wednesday and is attending a birthday party this afternoon. Tomorrow is the fourth SCCA Solo race for the Chicago region - so Egg’s gone all day. Xavier had discovered Oskar’s wooden train stuff and is having a great time using the play table in the basement.
SCCA Learning Curve
Monday, April 3rd, 2006We did it, Chris and I both finished the autocross school and are registered for next weekends first event. It rained yesterday but the car was awsome in the rain and we had a goood time. Scores were posted online last night, looks like we both ran mid pack overall. Not too bad for our first time.
