Re: 4000q a winner -hmmmm

[vrona@ix.netcom.com (Steven Verona)]

>Aw come on! Dont you think we're being a little hard on him? Scott, 
you 
>are right though, nationals would take a LOT of work, if even 
possible. 
>But I think he did an awesome job finishing where he did. Im sure I 
>couldnt even come close to that. And for being his first year, thats 
>amazing. How about a little positive feedback too!

>Hard on him, No. Realistic, Yes. Hey in my first year of Auto-X I won 
the 
region championship's in 3 regions, Was Undefeated in two, Won 
>Divisionals and took a 5th in class out of 27 at Nationals, And BTW 
>the 
>first 12 cars in my class at nationals were all within 1/2 second. 
>Remember this, A trailer baby will ALWAYS beat a daily driver.

I did win the regional and took second at National Tour event.  I lost 
by .5 seconds, granted a long time, but:  I was 3.5 seconds ahead of 
third and would have taken 3rd place in G stock against much faster 
Probe GT 6 cylinde cars.  Andy Hollis, the winner in H Stock, was fast 
enough to beat all 32 G STock cars and normally wins HS by over 3 
seconds.  I would say that being withing .5 seconds was a heck of an 
accomplishment with a tired car that was only 15% prepped.  Let me put 
it this way, Hollis knew the poor state of preparation of my car and 
was getting nervous about what I could do when I finished the work. 

>As far as not changing your minds about the original post, I seem to 
>recall a few "not only will you not win national, but you wont win 
>divisionals in a 4kq".  Well, for all intents and purposes he proved 
that 
>wrong.  He was beaten by an mx-6? how long was that driver doing 
auto-X????


>>>He did'nt win at divisionals.......  The MX-6 Will beat the 4000Q 
it's 
that simple.  1/2 second may not sound like a long time but it's 
lightyears in a Auto-X.  I've seen national titles won buy .002sec 
cumulitive over 2 days.  Now being in the same 1/10 that's something to 
get excited over.  Remember in most auto-x's 1/2 sec is 1% of total 
time, 
>>>>in racing that a lot.

I did win at Divisionals. Andy Hollis in the MX-6 that beat me at the 
Nats. Tour has been autoxing for 18 years.  If you look at te results 
from the nationals, I consistently beat the 3rd and 4th place 
finishers.  I never raced against the 2nd place guy and we already 
discussed the winner, Hollis.

If you think that a half second is a huge margin of victory, how would 
you describe my average MOV of 3.5 seconds?  I consistantly beat 3 or 4 
classes that are faster than HS.

I am not trying to defend myself.  I am just trying to put things in 
perspective.  I am proud of what I did this year and am looking forward 
to the rest of this year and next season. I have already surpassed 
almost everybody's expectations.... including my own.

Steven Verona