21st overall. For those who aren't impressed, you should be. The twenty cars that finished higher were either all wheel drive, way lighter, or carrying at least 200 more horsepower.....in at least one case, 500 more horsepower.
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Edit from 11/13/14: After seeing the results yesterday I was extremely displeased with my performance at this event and it shows in the tone of what I wrote below. I obviously drove poorly, but had no idea for much of the weekend how we were doing. Ending up 21st place was not where I thought we would have been ranked (I was hoping for a top 10), especially compared to many drivers we had beaten in this same car before at USCA and other events - or from looking at the very limited results we saw during the OUSCI. The last minute classing changes, fast and loose regard for their own rules, continual timing problems and delays, a dash of competitive deviousness, and inconsistent judging at this event only exacerbated this feeling.
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Those results are incomplete, and I'm not going to ease up until I see the actual run times. One competitor I know already fought one inaccuracy and it moved him up a dozen places yesterday. We STILL do not know any of our times from: Speed Stop, Left Side Autocross, Road Course, or how the S&D score was come up with. That will all come "later".
Live (or in some cases ANY) posting of competition times was a
major problem at this event. They should have done a better job - you cannot work on your autocross runs if you have
no idea what your times are or how you sit relative to others during the event. In 400+ competition events over the past 28 years I've
never had NO clue about what my times were until OUSCI 2014. Its several days later and I still have no clue, other than I got about 5 points from my ranked placement of (?) place.
At one point I was 4th fastest in the autocross of half the entries on the only side that the timer display was working (2 courses, left and right, with times added together). The AWD cars all ran in another session and apparently their times were very good (have no idea what they might be) and it messed with the placements of the 2WD cars badly, both in the autocross and speed stop events.
The one copy of the track map they had on site (above) was wrong - this was the 2.7 mile course and we ran the 2.4
Our car felt "off" on the road course all day, and I kept getting caught in traffic from other cars + the gravel spray from the many cars going off course + getting blocked by the damned camera car (aka: rolling road block). My AIM Solo wasn't working and I couldn't get the start/finish marker set-up, so I had no lap times or predictive timer functions, and I've come to
heavily really rely on that. With only 3-5 laps per session (truncated sessions due to the breakdowns, timing delays and technical problems) there just weren't enough laps for me to learn the 19 turns on this course, I guess. This course also had a lot of slow corners and long straights, which help powerful cars a lot. I cannot count how many times I was stuck going around corners behind slower cars that just put 100s of yards on me in the next straight. Cars and drivers I smoked in Texas placed well ahead of me (by how much I have no idea) here.
There were also some "competitive irregularities" I witnessed that were absurd. Rules that changed on the fly, seemingly automatic disqualifications that were overturned, hot lapping of autocross course at weird times, etc. It all affected the results. I am not too pleased about how some aspects were handled, but I'm starting to sound like sour grapes so I'll shut up now until I have more time to explain - and have had a chance to see some actual results with TIMES.
The OUSCI know how displeased some of us are, each of us from having spent a lot of time and money coming to their event, run in its 7th year but still looking like a rookie effort in many ways. Anyway, I'm going to leave it there for now before I'm banned for life from USCA/Optima events.
I did have "fun" but mixed with a healthy dose of frustration and facepalm.
