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Christopher Hammond
05.08.06
Yet another reason to not track your street car.
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/D913F445-B773-42E8-B23C-5D7B82294422.htm
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Christopher Hammond
05.12.06
I took the oil pan off the L28ET motor tonight to try to get inside and see what all I could find out about the motor. I've posted a few pictures over in the 240 photo gallery, check them out, let me know what you think of what you see.
http://sccaforums.com/photos/christoc/category1053.aspx
Here are some of the recently uploaded...
Christopher Hammond
06.15.06
I saw this post from J-O this evening. Content parts are pretty useful within CS as J-O states. Here's another great use for them. On SCCAForums.com I needed an easy way to put some common navigation on a majority of the pages. I ended up creating a common contentpart on the SCCAForums.com pages that allows me to easily manage this navigation from within the browser.
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Christopher Hammond
06.29.06
If you're interested in the sport of Autocross be sure to check out the Autocross FAQ provided by SCCAForums.com!
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Christopher Hammond
07.09.06
Here are my runs from today, except for Run 4, which of course would have been the cool one because I hit cones on the camera side, but of course I checked to make sure the camera was recording right before I ran, and apparently turned it off.
For some reason the videos aren't working here, you can view them here.
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Christopher Hammond
07.21.06
Well, the trip to Denver wasn't half bad. I flew Frontier Airlines and was surprised to see TVs in all of the head rests! Sure, it was $5 for 24 channels for the flight, but they had a free channel I watched that played some interesting short films.
I got to Denver, after one of the bumpiest flights I've ever had, but who cares, I got to watch TV :D
Went to Hertz and got my rental car, get this , I picked a ............ FORD......I'm driving a V6 Mustang Vert, automatic to top it off. This thing has NO power. I tried revving it in neutral and it stops at 4k, if you drop it into drive the motor revs down and then shifts.
For a short time I was entered in GStock in the Mustang. I got here and all the classes I was hoping would need a 5th driver to make a complete class had filled up before I got there. I was fairly down, figuring I was going to be stuck in the stang for the weekend, which would have been against my Hertz agreement :D
Chris K offered up his IS300 in DS if I didn't find another ride. I ended up putting up a sign on the registration trailer with my cell phone number. Thankfully Adam (from www.autocrossforum.com) came up to me and told me about the car he's driving. He told me the car owner was open to having someone run the car in another class, so I spoke to Aaron Boltman.
I'm now signed up to run his 2004 Corvette Z06 in ASP tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it, I think there are 8 drivers now entered in ASP, I'm looking forward to see how I fare! Aaron and Adam will be running the car in SS.
Thanks to both Aaron and Adam, I look forward to running with you guys tomorrow!
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Christopher Hammond
08.15.06
Well, it's not really "mine", but the company who developed the hitch I use on my car is now selling them to other folks.
http://www.tuxedoparkracing.com/350zhitch.html
If you've got any questions please feel free to ask, I'll try to answer any that I can.
I've towed my 6x8 trailer with this for well over a year now. Even hauled THREE sets of wheels/tires down to Walnut Ridge Arkansas earlier this year. I generally take two sets, tools, chair, cooler, bike, etc on the 6x8. I've hauled some weight with this thing.
We've even taken the time to remove the hitch for events, though most of the time I just leave it on the car and run with the extra weight in the back.
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Christopher Hammond
08.14.07
Good news for me! After taking a year off of Nationals in 2006 I'm once again headed to Topeka for a week in September! I registered this morning in CStock in a 2007 Pontiac Solstice! The Collins have asked me to codrive this year in Topeka, a great honor for me to be asked. Bud was also mentioned as a contender for the CS National Championship so I'm doublely honored to get the opportunity to assist him in doing so.
I booked my hotel for the week in Topeka this morning and registered for #63 CS as well! More on my Nationals adventure coming up here online! Also, I want to thank Nick Jackson for also offering me a ride in his STS Civic at Nationals. While I had looked forward to trying my hand at a FWD car at Nationals again (my first two tries I think left me with DFL both times) I couldn't turn down the opportunity to drive a RWD stock car, one that has a great chance at winning to boot!
See you all at Nationals, and look for reports from our crack reporting staff this year in Topeka!
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Christopher Hammond
09.25.07
Today was an interesting day. It started out dark, cold and wet, finished up bright sunny and almost hot.
It rained last night a bit, so the course was wet this morning when we were walking first thing.
I ran in CS today, the 5th car or so out in the 2nd heat on the West course. It started drizzling just as I was getting ready.
Every run I took was a different surface, the rain came, went, came and went, multiple times throughout the heat.
I ended up sitting in 9th, there are 7 trophy positions so I've got some work to do tomorrow! I took a LOT of video today, I'll try to get it posted next week when I get back in town.
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Christopher Hammond
09.26.07
So, the 2007 Solo Nationals are halfway complete. Natalie and I took another hour of video today, more stuff to go through next week!
A quick summary of the day. Bud finally got a clean run today, so that made 1 out of his 6 runs in CS cone free. I ran what I thought was well but not well enough. I was in 9th at the beginning of the day, 11th at the end of the day.
Lynn Collins got 2nd in CSL, a few tenths out of 1st I believe.
Time for bed, it's been a long week so far!
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Christopher Hammond
02.22.08
Today started out alright. Breakfast at IHOP, headed to the event site to unload the car and mount tires.
Car up on the jack, tires off the driver's side. Time to adjust the shocks. That is when it all went to hell.
Head on over to www.corvettez06.org to find out...
It's 5:30am, why am I up so early?
Christopher Hammond
02.26.08
Christopher Hammond
02.25.08
A quick post as I have way too much work to catch up on! Dave and I made it back from Georgia early in the morning. Natalie came and picked me up and I think we made it to bed around 3am. Much earlier than I had expected. We made the trip back from Adel Georgia in 11 hours, the trip down took 13 hours with the ice storm and rain most of the way. More on then race later tonight when I get to blog on Corvettez06.org
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