Comments on: OctoberFast 2008 http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2008/10/octoberfast_2008/ Life with MINIs (and other cars!) Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:33:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Jess Stratton http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2008/10/octoberfast_2008/comment-page-1/#comment-5938 Jess Stratton Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:03:03 +0000 http://www.gbmini.net/wp/?p=1398#comment-5938 Hi Chris! Bummer about the headache... whipping around cones isn't exactly helpful either, but the adrenaline would probably take it away! I drive with BMWCCA, the same folks that were organizing the event. I used to drive with SCCA, but switched to BMW because the events are smaller and you get 8 runs a day vs. SCCA's 3 runs. Both groups have their ups and downs. With BMW, you get lots more seat time. With SCCA, there is more variety of cars to admire and it's first and foremost a competition, so they really push you to do your very best. However, in both cases, the event leaders and instructors are top notch and extremely willing to help out. They are all friendly and approachable. Eloise (my MINI) with SCCA runs in STX class. Among other mods, she has a 15% reduced supercharger pulley, which puts her in the top class. Which means I am WAY outclassed and not very competetive there, LOL! In BMWCCA, she runs in class "A" or "B", I can't remember which, but it's a great class to be competitive in. She runs alongside the BMW 135i that was there on Sunday. I'm on Faceboook, a tag would be great! Feel free to drop me an email to talk about MINIs any day! jess@momelettes.com. The site for autox is boston-bmwcca.org, I can answer any questions you have about that, too. Hopefully I'll see you there next April? :-) Hi Chris!
Bummer about the headache… whipping around cones isn’t exactly helpful either, but the adrenaline would probably take it away!
I drive with BMWCCA, the same folks that were organizing the event. I used to drive with SCCA, but switched to BMW because the events are smaller and you get 8 runs a day vs. SCCA’s 3 runs. Both groups have their ups and downs. With BMW, you get lots more seat time. With SCCA, there is more variety of cars to admire and it’s first and foremost a competition, so they really push you to do your very best.
However, in both cases, the event leaders and instructors are top notch and extremely willing to help out. They are all friendly and approachable.
Eloise (my MINI) with SCCA runs in STX class. Among other mods, she has a 15% reduced supercharger pulley, which puts her in the top class. Which means I am WAY outclassed and not very competetive there, LOL! In BMWCCA, she runs in class “A” or “B”, I can’t remember which, but it’s a great class to be competitive in. She runs alongside the BMW 135i that was there on Sunday.
I’m on Faceboook, a tag would be great! Feel free to drop me an email to talk about MINIs any day! jess@momelettes.com. The site for autox is boston-bmwcca.org, I can answer any questions you have about that, too. Hopefully I’ll see you there next April? :-)

]]> By: Chris http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2008/10/octoberfast_2008/comment-page-1/#comment-5937 Chris Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:27:30 +0000 http://www.gbmini.net/wp/?p=1398#comment-5937 The media gallery on the MoP site is worth visiting as well. I was in the middle of a two day battle with a splitting headache, so I was less social than I might have otherwise been (the headache did go away completely for 20s at a time though). Since you posted here, Jess, I'm curious about the driver/car combo that took FTD (congratulations). Which club do you run events with? Is "Solace" prepared to the rules of a particular class? I have a photo of one of your runs (courtesy of Ian) in an album on my Facebook page. I'll try to tag you with a link to "momelettes". The media gallery on the MoP site is worth visiting as well. I was in the middle of a two day battle with a splitting headache, so I was less social than I might have otherwise been (the headache did go away completely for 20s at a time though).

Since you posted here, Jess, I’m curious about the driver/car combo that took FTD (congratulations). Which club do you run events with? Is “Solace” prepared to the rules of a particular class? I have a photo of one of your runs (courtesy of Ian) in an album on my Facebook page. I’ll try to tag you with a link to “momelettes”.

]]> By: Jess Stratton http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2008/10/octoberfast_2008/comment-page-1/#comment-5936 Jess Stratton Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:44:11 +0000 http://www.gbmini.net/wp/?p=1398#comment-5936 Thanks for taking those pics! They are great. It was so nice to see you and everyone again. MoP always puts on a great event, and thanks to the BMW crew for a great day. The weather couldn't have been MORE perfect (after the ride up, at least. ;-) Thanks for taking those pics! They are great. It was so nice to see you and everyone again. MoP always puts on a great event, and thanks to the BMW crew for a great day. The weather couldn’t have been MORE perfect (after the ride up, at least. ;-)

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