Re: Run through the hills 2011
I made it a goal of mine now that my typhoon is mostly done to put it through several different racing events. It started last year with the open road course in texas, earlier this year I did the day at the strip put on by Bowler, and as of last weekend the Run Through the Hills event in Pigeon Forge TN.
Having been around the syty world for awhile now, 14yrs I think. Making sure my lawn chair doesn't move away from the cooler has somewhat lost its thrill to be honest. I enjoy drag racing greatly, but why not push my trucks envelope further and me as a driver in other directions.
First off thanks to Alex for tagging along to be my pit crew. It is so much easier in the events to have a helper and Alex pulled through. From changing spark plugs, a bit of tuning, camera on/off, etc.
For those that sat home and did nothing this weekend you missed a great event. Yesterday I saw them give away ~$4k in gift cards and a set of custom Forgeline Rims another $4k in value. (my ticket was one frickin number off).
There are 3 racing events, autocross, drag racing, and speed/stop. (1/8 mile race but you must stop within 40 ft after finish line)
The only real rule they have is a 200 thread wear or higher rating tire. Which for me sucked as I have 180. You can still run just not eligible for prizes and awards (this turned out to suck badly for me as you will see).
Saturday was Autocross. Having never done this before in my truck I was not sure how it would turn out. Lets just say I had a great time, didn't take out a single cone and put what I would say were respectable times. 54 seconds best lap for me. Event best lap was 45 and that was what I would call a full race prep c5 corvette. My times were right there with most of the people.
Sunday was drag racing/speed stop.
My best drag in 1/8th was 7.4 (the winner of event was 7.6 being I was disqualified).
GRRRRR
For speed stop I ran an 8.9, (winner of event was 8.8). Now with this said I had burnt a spark plug wire during drag race so did this event on 7 cylinders. Even with that my time would have netted me 2nd place (and a significant gift card).
Along with the speed/stop they did a top speed via radar gun. I do not know my times, but the winner averaged 78-80mph. Being I ran 92mph in 1/8th earlier I suspect I would have placed well there also.
I did walk away with a $250 gift card for mustang parts (good thing my brother has a mustang).
I will be back next year, and most likely with tires to conform to the rules.
Hopefully the rest of you guys that made sure the couch didn't move this weekend had fun.
