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[ern-diz]

Originally Posted by Jason@SportsCar

The lap that got me the Tire Rack pole: https://youtu.be/AeawzB7R5i4

Thing sounds like a pissed off wasp!

[3cyltrbo]

Originally Posted by Jason@SportsCar

The lap that got me the Tire Rack pole: https://youtu.be/AeawzB7R5i4

getting caught up on all your great coverage

congrats on all you've continued to achieve!

Will

[Jason@SportsCar]

We were pleasantly surprised to see the 2015 get a stay of execution - it was supposed to get crushed at the end of the season, but I think the win at Indy helped convince some people to do a little paperwork and get us that last year on the fed waiver - so we will be racing the car at the 2018 Runoffs at Sonoma.

The 2018 race season just got underway with the Cal Club SCCA U.S. Majors Tour at Auto Club Speedway last weekend. The Yaris loves this track, started the weekend with the H Prod pole, won the qualifying race, as well as the feature race on Sunday. And reset the lap record in the process, dropping it from a 1:58.0 to a 1:57.9.

Bobby had his HP Yaris out there as well, he qualified 4th of 6 cars. I believe he was running 3rd during the qual race when his engine expired. Hopefully he will have a replacement engine up and running in time for Willow Springs in March.



Opening laps of the feature race (lap record comes on lap 2): https://youtu.be/4SVn0ozL3ug

[atomic_hoji]

Originally Posted by Jason@SportsCar

We were pleasantly surprised to see the 2015 get a stay of execution - it was supposed to get crushed at the end of the season ..
...

Is that an SCCA rule or ...? And is it against the rules to smuggle the vehicle out of state or country?!

+1 congrats on the win.

-- Adam

[Jason@SportsCar]

Originally Posted by atomic_hoji

Is that an SCCA rule or ...? And is it against the rules to smuggle the vehicle out of state or country?!

+1 congrats on the win.

-- Adam

No, that is a Toyota thing, they own the car. It's not a car that can be sold or titled, has to be sent back to country of origin or crushed no later than five years after it hits the ground here.

[deng]

Congrats Jason!

[Jason@SportsCar]

[Bluevitz-rs]

Winner winner chicken dinner?

[ern-diz]

What a great pic.

[Jason@SportsCar]

The race broadcast for those that missed the live feed: https://www.scca.com/videos/2033599

[Jason@SportsCar]

The Super Sweep was a longshot, coming into the final round third in points.

http://www.racer.com/scca-home/item/...-sweep-winners

[ern-diz]

I may have already asked you this, but what's next after this Yaris?

[Jason@SportsCar]

Originally Posted by ern-diz

I may have already asked you this, but what's next after this Yaris?

A vacation.

[ern-diz]

Originally Posted by Jason@SportsCar

A vacation.

Ha!

[deng]

Good deal on extending the yaris' death sentence. Congrats on setting a new record at ACS!

[ern-diz]

[ABSPLASTIC]

Hey Jason!

I don't know if you're aware, but that JDM TRD exhaust you sold to Garm back in 2012 is alive and well on my '08 hatch. Crazy story. To make a long story short though, when Garm had purchased it off you, I was stuck in the warehouse cleaning it... and admiring it. I was later told by Garm and Jeff that it was sold. I had spent what seemed to be an eternity talking about how rare it was to my wife and how how badly I wanted one (at the time, there were only 2 other known Yaris owners who had one. I had no idea that my wife had taken note of my ramblings and contacted Jeff at Micro Image who set up a crazy mission to keep the sale under wraps. I was later surprised at home on Valentines day with your muffler with a big red bow wrapped snugly around it. Garm had also purchased your race driven clutch which was ready to get slapped on at the time.

If you're ever selling any other goodies, let me know, I'll be more than glad to purchase your hand me downs (:

[Jason@SportsCar]

Took the old car out to Sonoma Raceway for the SCCA US Majors Tour. It was a huge event, with over 400 cars. Having never raced there before it was a great test for the Runoffs, which will be there in Oct. Went in to the event with no expectations, simply looking at it as a test day.

The weekend started a little rough... A vibration that showed up a Buttonwillow in April finally got bad enough I could identify it, for the first time in 8 years of racing these cars we had a CV go bad. Ended up having to cut qualifying short, just going out long enough to post a decent lap so we wouldn't push our luck. Got an axle from a local auto parts store in time to make the race.

Brutal hot on Saturday, and while I was having to manage my front tires the little British roadsters that were flying in qualifying were suffering even worse from the heat. I was able to get the win on Saturday.

On Sunday we had an ugly incident at the start when two Grand Touring Lite cars got together in Turn 2. It created a bit of a log jam, and next thing you know the top three H Prod cars are all piled together. Fortunately the Yaris can take a hit, I was able to restart after falling to last in the field, and work my way back up to take the win.

Learned a lot from our weekend, and have made some chassis changes that will make the car better for the Runoffs.



Sunday's start (full videos later): https://youtu.be/0gs_py2oXgI

We could fix it:


But it might be more fun to update to the 2018 we picked up last week.