Hey guys,

Well I went to the Houston Regional SCCA Solo Event #2 yesterday (2/3/08), and man did I have a blast. I competed in my unmodified TB Lancer Evo IX SE. Finally driving the car at the limits showed me just how much I have to learn... and how amazing this car really is. All my mod-money is better spent on me- this car is fast enough for a while.

I competed in the STE class. For those of you outside of Houston, the Houston SCCA splits the stock touring class into several ST* classes because of increasing competition.

My times got better over each of my four runs, and my final run of 50.428 gave me first place in the STE category. This just goes to show how good the car is despite my driving... nipping at my heels were a Mustang GT, an older BMW 5 series and a Mustang 5.0.

My wife took care of documenting the day with pics and video (our camera isn't the best as you can tell) when she wasn't co-driving with me.

Here's a link to the video of my 3rd run (crappy quality, but excellent filming thanks to my wife): http://videos.streetfire.net/video/d...3900039149.htm

And now for the pictures:


Showing off my new Bridgestone Potenza Re-01R's








My wife and I before the final run!


I'd love to see more Evo's out there; the STI's were represented way better . Here's my shout-out to Mike... hope to see you at the next one, man!

 

AWESOME man. looks like you had a great time. keep it up. nice ride too

 

ooo looks like fun..good times, and you got the family evolved...i mean envolved

 

Sweet! Nice pics.

l8r)

 

Thanks for the responses, fellas! Man, I love this car!

 

Welcome to autocrossing! Be careful, you might get addicted. Then you find yourself doing something retarded like spending $2500 to shave off 16 lbs of unsprung weight.

BTW, they had you misclassed. The Evo got moved out of ESP a couple of years ago. You belonged in STB, which means you would have come in second.

 

Thanks for the input. Yeah, I was a little confused about the classing. I know that I'm normally in A-Stock, so it was hard for me to believe that the evo was in an E class of ST, but check out the link to this document:

http://www.houscca.com/solo/other/Ho...et_Touring.pdf

Do you know where there's a link that shows the update? Thanks, I'm always open to having help.

 

Yeah, they really need to update that pdf. They based their STA - STF classes off of SP classes, which have seen some shakeups since 2005. Most notably, the Evo and STi got moved from ESP, where they were horrendously dominant, to BSP. There's currently a 35-page long *****fest on sccaforums.com about how the Evo and STi are now overdogs in BSP and should be moved to ASP. This in a class that has seen a C4 win the national championship in 22 of the last 26 years.

Here's a link to the current rules: http://www.scca.com/documents/Solo%2...lo_Rules_2.pdf

 

Hey I was out there too! I have a White Evo 8 and compete in XP (Although its basically stock, and XP is where I want to get to).
I am hoping to make it to every event this year

 

Yeah, I think I saw you heading out right as we were getting started. Did you have your girlfriend with you?

 

looks like you had fun man, im hoping to start autox-ing this season, looks like a good time

 

I love hearing these words from Evo owners. Keep at it and it only gets better from there

 

i really like the last picture! nothing is better, when you find your wife as a partner!

nice pictures and congrats for the track day!!!!!

 

Cool!!! How you like the RE-01 autoXing? I'm asking because I use the same tire and I haven't had a chance to auto-X in them yet.

 

This was his first Autocross, it will last a few more and then he'll be 20 grand into the hole.