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DocWalt · 08-25-2025, 09:30 AM

UMI Performance's King of the Mountain was this past weekend. I went up with my nationals codriver, Ryan. We were laughing and having a great time the entire event. It helps doing "well" with my knife to a gun fight, but truly I did not have a negative experience and the entire time we were having fun and socializing.

Stuff like the parade laps obviously can't really happen at an SCCA event but the entire event was just "fun" and there's no "forced fun" happening. I met a ton of new people and put faces to names I've known for a long time and that's really fun. I met someone I've only known from Gridlife iRacers and their first words to me were "wow, you're a lot taller than I expected" and Ryan was like "man is this a tinder date?!?"

I felt *really* lucky to have the car just flat out work right from the jump. From my baseline all we did was loosen it up a smidgen (which I had kind of expected based on recent local testing) and tried other more aggressive things that we just put back to normal. That really meant I could attack from the jump and drive confidently. I'm mildly annoyed with myself for coning away 2nd in Late Model during qualifying but thrilled with the pace.

Shootout was a freaking blast, I really wish I got to run that course more. I made a mistake on my "round of 6" and blew ~4 tenths or so but wouldn't have been enough for JV, Sam, or Ian, but still stoked to finish 4th!

My Friday fastest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdETHnX7U0s

My Saturday fastest (dirty, camera card issues on fast clean run, but whatever. It was just a hair slower everywhere and the cones I hit were "you dumbass why did you do that?"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yni7U6HKiKg

and my fastest Shootout run:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2jv0Va8ivw

Here's the entire UMI stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLVg4lVeD6M

and some pics:

08-25-2025, 09:30 AM	#161
DocWalt Tri-State Post Whore Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Royersford, PA Member #10805 My Ride: '92 GTI, '19 MX-5 iTrader: (0)	UMI Performance's King of the Mountain was this past weekend. I went up with my nationals codriver, Ryan. We were laughing and having a great time the entire event. It helps doing "well" with my knife to a gun fight, but truly I did not have a negative experience and the entire time we were having fun and socializing. Stuff like the parade laps obviously can't really happen at an SCCA event but the entire event was just "fun" and there's no "forced fun" happening. I met a ton of new people and put faces to names I've known for a long time and that's really fun. I met someone I've only known from Gridlife iRacers and their first words to me were "wow, you're a lot taller than I expected" and Ryan was like "man is this a tinder date?!?" I felt really lucky to have the car just flat out work right from the jump. From my baseline all we did was loosen it up a smidgen (which I had kind of expected based on recent local testing) and tried other more aggressive things that we just put back to normal. That really meant I could attack from the jump and drive confidently. I'm mildly annoyed with myself for coning away 2nd in Late Model during qualifying but thrilled with the pace. Shootout was a freaking blast, I really wish I got to run that course more. I made a mistake on my "round of 6" and blew ~4 tenths or so but wouldn't have been enough for JV, Sam, or Ian, but still stoked to finish 4th! My Friday fastest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdETHnX7U0s My Saturday fastest (dirty, camera card issues on fast clean run, but whatever. It was just a hair slower everywhere and the cones I hit were "you dumbass why did you do that?"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yni7U6HKiKg and my fastest Shootout run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2jv0Va8ivw Here's the entire UMI stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLVg4lVeD6M and some pics: