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    Detroit SCCA After the Fireworks Solo 2014

    So this past weekend was DR-SCCA's annual post July 4th Solo, hosted at Wurtsmith AFB in Oscoda, MI, about 3 hours north of Detroit.

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wu...01a5485e2def67

    The place was a B52 Bomber base, now its a site used to refurbish 747s. I've honestly never seen so many of them at one place. We are given access to their de-icing pad on the north end of the ground. Its a big rectangle concrete pad thats relatively smooth by DR standard.

    This event is a 2 days autocross, and since the region has access to ProSolo style timing/starting xmas tree system, the Saturday of the event was a ProSolo style event. For those who don't know, ProSolo is an interesting variation of theme of autoX, mixing with drag racing. 2 cars starts side by side off a drag racing Xmas tree, running mirrored course. While at the end of the day it is still a combined time from left and right course that decides the result(out of 4 runs on each side of the course, best left + best right counts), the added element of starting off the tree adds some interesting twist and excitement.

    This weekend also gave me a chance to shakedown my new camera body in a Sony A77 II. Shooting mainly with the Sony 70-400 F4-5.6 G

    Pictures from the ProSolo portion of the weekend: https://plus.google.com/photos/10410...66277313120641



















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    Sunday is a regular SCCA style autoX. 4 runs and the day ended pretty early to allow people who are mostly from the Detroit area to beat the cottage country traffic home.

    Full album: https://plus.google.com/photos/10410...30980356051873

    Started out pretty foggy:




    Some people starts dodging cones much earlier in life...




    And sometimes adult never grew out of go-karts...









    But this is Detroit region afterall



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    Rope pusher...










    All in all fun weekend. Got lots of run in myself(20 runs over 2 days). A class win and a 2nd place isn't bad...
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    Videos:
    [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WntACfvP4Zg"]DRSCCA Oscoda ProSolo 2014 Super Challenge Round 2 - YouTube[/ame]

    [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWxAwqGe60"]DRSCCA Oscoda After the Firework AutoX 2014 GS 125 VW GTI - YouTube[/ame]
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