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jstein77
jstein77 UltraDork
5/6/18 5:49 p.m.

In 35 years of autocrossing, I've never had FTD - until today.  

 

It was a wet, sloppy day in Daytona today, and the AWD Focus was in its element.  The novice I had in the passenger seat had some colorful (NSFW) comments, and I was pretty exited about it as well.  There were only 3 runs under 50 seconds all day, and two of them were mine:

 

And overall:

I got second in PAX with a 40.14 indexed time, and co-driver David was third.  Despite (or maybe because of) the horrible weather, it was an awesome day.

Wally
Wally GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
5/6/18 5:59 p.m.

Congrats!! Though for some reason the first thing that came to mind reading the thread title was Merlin Olsen 

 

Stefan
Stefan GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
5/6/18 6:00 p.m.

Awesome!  Well done.

dculberson
dculberson UltimaDork
5/6/18 6:00 p.m.

Excellent!!

Trackmouse
Trackmouse UltraDork
5/6/18 6:06 p.m.

I think “a wet, sloppy” should become official terminology for rainy autox days. 

Way to go on FTD. 

jstein77
jstein77 UltraDork
5/6/18 6:18 p.m.

Thanks, guys!

blush

Entropyman
Entropyman GRM+ Memberand Reader
5/6/18 6:49 p.m.

Way to go Jerry!

snailmont5oh
snailmont5oh HalfDork
5/6/18 6:49 p.m.

I knew that Focus had to be good for something!  Seriously, though, good job. 

KyAllroad (Jeremy)
KyAllroad (Jeremy) PowerDork
5/6/18 7:10 p.m.

Good job!!  Bragging rights earned today.

Spoolpigeon
Spoolpigeon PowerDork
5/6/18 8:30 p.m.

Well done!!!! 

gunner
gunner GRM+ Memberand Reader
5/6/18 8:38 p.m.

Sweet! Congratulations bud!  

Floating Doc
Floating Doc GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
5/6/18 11:54 p.m.

Congratulations! 

I was there yesterday, doing some ride alongs.  Fun day. Tried to autocross with a club over in Lake county today, got cancelled due to prediction of lightning. Should have stayed in Daytona!

dean1484
dean1484 GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
5/7/18 6:36 a.m.

Congrats. My first thought was some sort of modified third Jen RX7. 

jstein77
jstein77 UltraDork
5/7/18 6:52 a.m.

Official results are up:

Class results

Raw times

 

klodkrawler05
klodkrawler05 Reader
5/7/18 12:28 p.m.

FTD out of more than 130 drivers! that has to be an awesome feeling! congrats!

Crackers
Crackers Dork
5/7/18 12:57 p.m.

Nice!

Maniac0301
Maniac0301 Reader
5/7/18 1:06 p.m.

Wet/Sloppy is absolutely correct.   Us RWD rallycross guys were stuck at walking pace for parts of our runs.

 Slow motion racing

jstein77
jstein77 UltraDork
5/7/18 4:34 p.m.
Maniac0301 said:

Wet/Sloppy is absolutely correct.   Us RWD rallycross guys were stuck at walking pace for parts of our runs.

 Slow motion racing

Yikes, I thought my video looked slow. That was really slick mud.

poopshovel again
poopshovel again MegaDork
5/7/18 6:52 p.m.

AWESOME! Come to Georgia and collect your Hong Norr “Hold my beer while I FTD” shirt!

Per Schroeder
Per Schroeder PowerDork
5/8/18 1:42 p.m.

Strong work!

 

David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
5/8/18 2:09 p.m.

Very cool. Congratulations. 

jstein77
jstein77 UltraDork
5/8/18 3:14 p.m.

Thanks again, everyone! yes

jstein77
jstein77 UltraDork
5/14/18 10:55 a.m.

Here's a couple of shots from last week:

 

 

 

And here's one of my co-driver, David, who took third overall.  So my car had two out of the top three times of the day!

 

 

JoeTR6
JoeTR6 HalfDork
5/14/18 11:15 a.m.

Excellent work.

Ransom
Ransom GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
5/14/18 11:41 a.m.

Congratulations! That has to feel fantastic...

Also, I dig the course. Looks more like a tight road course than the seas of asphalt with orange bits of flotsam and jetsam to avoid I'm used to...

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