Flying Turd in St Paul MN

[jeff s]

We were invited by Car Craft Magazine to participate in the Real Street Eliminator Competition this weekend in St Paul MN at the Car Craft Nats
with our 1972 Vega. This is the competion that our Schwartz G Machine chassis have won the last 2 years in a row.

[wiedemab]

That's Cool! Give'em hell. I love that little car. You guys ran the crap out of it (no pun intended) at Gingerman.

[rwhite692]

That's awesome Jeff, Great graphic too.

[jeff s]

After Day one of Car Craft RSE (Muscle Car Class)
We are in 1st place in the Launch Box competition
2nd Place in the Autocross.

[jeff s]

After day two at Car Craft RSE, the Schwartz Vega is now leading the autocross by .01, and tied for 1st in the lauch box, I have to hit the dyno by 11am tomorrow, gonna open the bottle and hope for the best.

The primary competition is my friend Randy Johnson of D & Z Customs, who won this event with his Schwartz Chassis equipped 66 Chevelle in 2008.
He's running a 2nd gen Camaro with Heidts stuff and IRS with a supercharged LS, he put down 604 hp to the wheels today and is leading that category.
There's also a real fast blue 69 Chevelle, top 3 cars are are less than 3 tenths of a second apart.

[jon72vega]

I follow the F/T Schwartz Vega cause I love what Jeff has done with this one.
Here's a pic of The F/T Schwartz Vega from Day 1, harvested from Car Craft's website:
http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae108/jon72vega/General%20Pics/ccrp_2010_49_oday_1_of_the_2010_car.jpg

[frankenstang]

Randy's Camaro came out swinging today and just nudged the Vega out of top spot in the autocross.

2nd place for the Flying Turd, not bad.

[Josh69]

That was awesome to watch on Sunday, the Vega and the Camaro were really moving! Congrats guys on your achievements!

I could hear Randy's Camaro tearing it up all the way up at the main stage! :thumbsup:

[66LS7]

First of all I'd like to thank Jeff for putting up a great fight. The last thing you want to do is go into a compitition & have no compitition! Jeff did a great job driving the Vega (which is no slouch). I also would like to thank the crowd that gathered around to cheer us on, that was great & really gets you pumped up.:lateral:

[Ryne@Schwartz]

Randy, it was an honor to compete against someone so friendly and competitive at the same time. If we had to lose, I'm glad it was to you!



Oh and jon72vega, that picture you harvested is of me driving LOL. That was my first EVER autocross run and I used a little too much throttle coming out of the first turn and looped it. I came back in my second run and ran a 44.400. Not too bad for never having auto-crossed before!

The little Vega seems like it would be fun to drift, if we ever got into that stuff too!

[Derek69SS]

There's also a real fast blue 68 Chevelle, top 3 cars are are less than 3 tenths of a second apart.
It's a '69 ;)

It was fun competing against and hanging out with you guys!

[Tom Fuehrer]

How did you guys like the AX course this year? I'm part of the club that stages the event and we have struggled with using the space allowed for the AX for the best possible course. Looking at the times it appears the course was longer than last year, hopefully it was more popular.

I wasn't at the CC event last weekend. I attended the vintage car races at Road America (The KIC). Coincidentally, The Temptress was there with (I presume) Jeff's son.

I was at RA doing some reconnaissance on First Gen Camaro Road Race cars. I've started my Vintage Racing '69 Camaro project and needed to see first-hand what guys are doing.

[HAULNSS]

How did you guys like the AX course this year? I'm part of the club that stages the event and we have struggled with using the space allowed for the AX for the best possible course. Looking at the times it appears the course was longer than last year, hopefully it was more popular.


Tom,
All the chatter I heard was very positive. :thumbsup: I never made it down to the course as the line and the heat was a little more than I wanted to deal with.

For a lot of the guys, it was the highlight of the weekend. Hopefully, they can continue with a similar set up next year.

Randy

[Derek69SS]

The course was great for its size! It was a much "easier" course than I'm used to doing at SCCA events, but that is to be expected where most of the participants are novices. The space was about double last year's but there was a return area so you'd basically do 2 laps, making it almost 4X the length of last year's course.

[AMarchant]

I was working the course Friday and Saturday. Looked like everyone had fun, a lot of positive feedback. It was a blast to watch you guys handle your cars, specifically Randy, Derek and Jeff.

Tom, keep us posted on your new racer. I enjoyed watching the Mustang at BIR, look forward to seeing the new vintage Camaro.

[jeff s]

I liked the course it looked simple but there were some bumps and getting the right line was tricky at times. I'd like to see next years course more in front of the grandstand as there were so many spectators this year it was a mess trying to moved the cars around. They spectators could then get a better view from the grand stands.
Here's a video of our Vega.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5-4l1VAMj4