Import Face-Off
Import Face-Off at Montgomery Motorsports Park was great! I got to see some friends and pull off some great times. The track was prepped well and there were some really fast cars making great passes.
The Bracket ET classes were run a little strangely. We all had to wait for all three rounds of qualifying for the heads up classes before we made elimination passes. That makes sense, but we had to go to the back of the T&T line to make passes and work out our dial-ins. It would have made much more sense to let the bracket classes run in front of T&T if they wanted to make passes.
I think the worst part of the day was 1st round elimination where i had to run against my friend Cesar. We had both put a lot of time in to prep for the race, but we didn't really expect to run against each other in the 1st round. It ended with him breaking out of his 12.45 dial-in with a 12.36. It's not all bad though ... he let off at the 1000' and still beat his personal best ET. I wish he would have run another T&T pass to see what that car was capable of.
I recorded a new personal best ET (12.24), trap (113.4) and RT (.070), as well as nabbing second place in the bracket ET2 and $50. I'd say it paid for my entry and fuel, but it didn't. It did soften the blow a little though.
I'm still slightly confused about the final ET2 results though. The ET2 class is for cars running 14.99 and faster. The winner of the class was a regular at the track with a CRX. He entered in the ET1 (15.00 and slower) as well as the ET2 class. In the ET2 finals, he edged me out by a mere .0106", but ran a 15.1" pass. I get how the numbers work out, but a 15+ pass should have disqualified him from the ET2 class in my opinion.
Either way, I had a great time. I met some cool new people and some of my friends went home with trophies from the show. Hopefully the trophy for "Best JDM" will take the sting out of Cesar's 1st round elimination ... plus, he got to drive home in a Skyline. I think he got the better end of the deal.