When I started racing sedans years ago, all there was to run on nearby were parking lot tracks.  Now I live in an awesome location between a handful of permanent tracks, so it's rare that I run on parking lot tracks anymore.  When I heard about the Dash For Cash race at Pound It Raceway in San Diego, I thought it would be a great excuse to go back to the old school and run on a parking lot again.

  I am honestly used to running on pretty blown-out parking lots, bumpy and torn up with a major lack of traction.  When I first drove on the Pound It Raceway track, it was nothing like this.  It was a smooth track with consistent traction, and a fun, technical layout that was very challenging.

 I made a few minor changes to my 416WC, started with the Hupo '08 Reedy Race setup listed on thard.co.uk and went from there.  I added .5 mm front anti-dive, 3 mm under the inner ball stud on the rear camber link, put 550 wt shock oil in, and stood the shocks up on the rear shock tower to hole 5.  My car was dialed.

 The modified class was competitive, heads up qualifying that made for some really fun racing.  I was 2'nd after the first qualifier, and managed to TQ the 2'nd after starting on the back row.  In the main I got a good jump on the start and ended up lapping the field, and taking home the 1'st place cash prize!  The car was good, but I wish I had switched to 3.5 mm under the inner rear camber link ball stud to free the car up a little more and get through the tight sections a little quicker.

  On a completely separate note, I have run 3 times at WCRC now since they opened a week ago, and my 416WC is doing great there as well.  My setup is getting close, but not good enough to post online yet.  I can group about 10 laps together within about .3 seconds of each other, but still have yet to go out and have a crash-free run.  I need to find the trick to getting my car a little easier to drive, while still maintaining the fast lap times so that I can go out and have rollover-free runs on the curbed track.