Live Coverage: $2018 Challenge

Awesome! This was great to watch last year, and with how your videos have grown over the year should be even better.

It's almost time for the Challenge! We're loading everything up now.

Your mom is probably happy i’m not coming to destroy more of her shiny cones

I may have to have an office day on Friday so i can watch.

Competitor packets are getting stuffed now!

In reply to Patrick :

Thanks to you we no longer have shiny cones. :( 

How many entries did we get this year?

For those spectating in person (me) what sort of addresses do I need?

Mndsm said:

For those spectating in person (me) what sort of addresses do I need?

Hotel 

4200 NW 97th Blvd, Gainesville, FL 32606

Track

11211 N, N County Road 225, Gainesville, FL 32609

Turns out the trophies are going to be a bit of a parking lot build, too. I finished them up at 2am, then realized I was out of silver spray paint. To the parking lot!

I can't wait for the videos!!!  Wish I was there. 

I brought my full compliment of paint markers. See yall in the am. 

When will you be starting the live coverage?

I hope they are live for Jeremy's "reveal" of his "yet unseen" wagon. 

Wish I could be there.  I am hoping to see some of this on line.  I did see the "Wagon" on another thread.  Very crazy awesome. 

In reply to Mike924 :

Probably not the same wagon.  The one I'm talking about looks like a Studebaker.  

EDIT: Yes it is on FB

https://www.facebook.com/66381183139/posts/10156851306893140/

Oh my god

And we'll be live on Facebook and YouTube in about 2 minutes.

John Welsh said:

I hope they are live for Jeremy's "reveal" of his "yet unseen" wagon. 

is the 2x4 pointed at the windshield an homage to a certain porsche replica from a couple years ago?

In reply to sleepyhead :

Expect two "photo runs" with body and then remaining w/o body.

I too commented about that "spear"  

The thing is generally impossible to see out of.  Imagine dodging cones with this view. 

In reply to John Welsh :

if it's a "conestoga wagon" riff... maybe it should be considered the "yoke" ?

*note this thread has required that I spell-check two words already

Tom Suddard said:

And we'll be live on Facebook and YouTube in about 2 minutes.

Link?

Ovid_and_Flem said:

Tom Suddard said:

And we'll be live on Facebook and YouTube in about 2 minutes.

Link?

first post!

Ovid_and_Flem said:

Tom Suddard said:

And we'll be live on Facebook and YouTube in about 2 minutes.

Link?

This link should get you to the previous segment that was live earlier 

https://www.facebook.com/grassrootsmotorsports/videos/2156314101354638/

https://www.facebook.com/grassrootsmotorsports/videos/2156314101354638/

Something New this year, LIVE TIMING AND SCORING 

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/livetiming/  

John Welsh said:

Something New this year, LIVE TIMING AND SCORING 

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/livetiming/  

WOW, shoutout to the Lumina van crew for that morning autocross time. Impressive

Are the blanks in the results from people who are there that could not run, or they didn't show up?

In reply to alfadriver :

Just a few extra cells in the sheet. Fixed.

In reply to Tom Suddard :

I was thinking more the 8 cars that have 1000 second first runs.  I remember that there were many who registered but could not make it when we ran- and given the hurricane that just crossed the path to the event- that a few more than normal could not make it.

I still can’t figure out the youtube live feed, but i’m working up on a roof right now so it’s more for tonight 

In reply to Patrick :

stream #1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sckM7v-RQB0

stream #2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBzn1-_v8xM

stream #3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgr9nt2xlOs

if you go to the channel page and refresh, it should show when it's live... but they're only doing ~30min streams per hour... that way they pace J.G.  

channel page:
https://www.youtube.com/user/GRMtv

edit: I accept no liability if you fall off a roof because of my providing these links

Almost done on the roof, couple more pieces

livestream #4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn13txBYnHg

you'll be on your own for the rest, it's getting late here

coverage just crashed mid interview with the Wreck team.

back on- every time I watch, I put together an idea car.  

This year, it's back to a DP or DM/EM Spider.  I think a EM would be the most straight forward, although not one that would be competitive with the ultimate MG.

It's interesting to consider that the more modified car can be built cheaper- but I think it's pretty true.  

here's the fifth stream, if you want to watch it "after the fact"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faHkKs90WIg

Sooooo any concourse feed?? I'm dying up here!

I don’t know why but that Datsun in the GRM Live intro is just so damn sexy.  

Patrick said:

I don’t know why but that Datsun in the GRM Live intro is just so damn sexy.  

The flat black funny car Z?  Yeah....that is sexy!  J/K

In reply to wheels777 :

If I'm seeing right, there has been no livestream all day (concourse day) and GRM FB page has only loaded two pics on this Saturday.

Something seems amiss.

The Justang finished on top Friday. They will probably be hard to unseat for the overall

I have word that Team Stampie has won the half budget class.  

Go Stampie! 

Wagon Class has gone to Jeremy and the Yukon Ho team

More Intel... 

1st Justang

2nd Georgia Tech 5 series

3rd a Rookie in Ghettocet Miata

Spirit of the Event: Parking lot build

People's Choice: APV-R Minivan

And the results are now live at http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/livetiming/

John Welsh said:

More Intel... 

1st Justang

2nd Georgia Tech 5 series

3rd a Rookie in Ghettocet Miata

That ghettocet was FAST. 

Also- I find it comical that the mr2 was faster around course being towed by a Saab. By almost 30 seconds. But there was absolutely no team that worked harder. Nonack and co crushed it. 

Tom Suddard said:

And the results are now live at http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/livetiming/

are the 400' times recorded in the PM autocross going to be published anywhere?

In reply to sleepyhead :

I asked and they didn't have the staff to record the 400 times which is understandable. The grid was incredibly busy this year with the longer format so they had their hands full.  There was a timer for it and the fast teams were in the 5.9 seconds range.

In reply to Stampie :

J.G. mentioned getting "lowest time yet" from the 400' time during one of the livestreams, hence my question.

There's also been some... discussion?... in the past about wanting to have some results with "additional notes" recorded somewhere... since the "raw results" leaves out some context (supra = ford wagon, secret wagon = c4, etc).  However, I recognize that this might be stepping on Tim/Tom/Margie/GRM's toes/IP.  But, it'd be pretty easy for the forum community to setup an semi-open GoogleDocs file populated with the results with additional fields for "notes" and/or "tires" to be populated by "accredited" forum members.  But, if we're going to do that... we probably ought to fire it up soon, while the memory is relatively fresh... assuming we get some kind of "official blessing" for it.

sleepyhead said:

In reply to Stampie :

J.G. mentioned getting "lowest time yet" from the 400' time during one of the livestreams, hence my question.

 

There's also been some... discussion?... in the past about wanting to have some results with "additional notes" recorded somewhere... since the "raw results" leaves out some context (supra = ford wagon, secret wagon = c4, etc).  However, I recognize that this might be stepping on Tim/Tom/Margie/GRM's toes/IP.  But, it'd be pretty easy for the forum community to setup an semi-open GoogleDocs file populated with the results with additional fields for "notes" and/or "tires" to be populated by "accredited" forum members.  But, if we're going to do that... we probably ought to fire it up soon, while the memory is relatively fresh... assuming we get some kind of "official blessing" for it.

Like 7th with used unknown date road race tires vs 3rd with stickered a7?

I guess the stat geeks would like it but i’m cool with “this is where my $ went and this is how I did” 

I have been trying to watch things on YouTube. Will the live feeds be uploaded so those that could not watch live can go back and watch things?   

Also. Would GRM be open to having volunteers help with the production/ filming/ end of things?  Say setting a couple more cameras around and or sending out a couple more roving reporters to film/interview the event. All this does not need to be live (but live would be even more cool) it could then be edited down and released as content on there site/YouTube over the next couple weeks. 

The little bit of stuff I have seen so far has me wanting more. 

dean1484 said:

 

Also. Would GRM be open to having volunteers help with the production/ filming/ end of things?  Say setting a couple more cameras around and or sending out a couple more roving reporters to film/interview the event. All this does not need to be live (but live would be even more cool) it could then be edited down and released as content on there site/YouTube over the next couple weeks. 

The little bit of stuff I have seen so far has me wanting more. 

 

Love the enthusiasm for the broadcasts, but at this point we can barely muster enough of a volunteer force to pick up an orange vinyl pylon when it falls over, and the leap from "wave this red flag" to "produce and broadcast a live multi-camera sporting event" is fairly broad. Still, though we recognize the need to broadcast and archive this event in a multimedia fashion. Really the only thing standing between us and that reality is re$ources. And the best way to get those resources is to have a viable product worthy of those resources. Literally the best thing anyone can do right now to help expand the coverage in future years is to make sure you're consuming and RELENTLESSLY SHARING our current offerings. 

Oh, and for those that noticed there was no live feed from Saturday. Internet was actually garbage all weekend at the track, which was the cause of the dropouts in a couple of the feeds. Which kind of sucked because it was great last year, and three weeks ago when we went to do a site survey and set up the autocross courses. I can inly attribute it to a substantial portion of NW Florida's infrastructure getting wiped off the map the day prior to the event. 

We did spend Saturday shooting some prerecorded featured on a few cars, which wil appear on a future live show (probably the Halloween special on October 31st). 

As for the 400' times, we had one car under the 6-second mark which was the Justang. A few more were in the low 6s. We do have some chicken-scratch notes on the 400' times that we'll try to get into some sort of manageable format.

Datsaniti went 6.0s in the 400' or so I'm told. I think Wreck Racing and the V8 Miata got under 6.0s too.

I just want to say thank you to the staff for the shout out with my wagon in the first post on this thread. It cool to see I sneak into the magazine and now I am getting the treads with even trying.....

In reply to Patrick :

Car 16 was a stock Miata 1.8 drivetrain on 195 street tires with only me driving. It's my son's car, but he doesn't have his license yet. No pro driver runs (I did suggest it to him, but he wanted to give me the seat time. 32 days prior to the event, it was covered in matt black (scratch that... chalky, charcoal colored) paint, including the door handles. We disassembled everything we could for paint, and went through all of the "safety and reliability" items. It can get faster next year.