For those of you that have already had the pleasure of taking your Fit around the cones you can understand the excitement that I'm about to describe. And for those of you that have not... what are you waiting for?
It was Sunday December the 2nd and I showed up early to get a few ride-a-long's before I started in on the afternoon session. I was welcomed by drivers of all types. This one guy in a fox body mustang that looked to have about $100,000 thrown into it looked at me and said "I like your car". I replied back "you've spent gobs of money on your mustang and you like MY car?" He said that he drives an accord everyday and would have bought the Fit but they didn't have one in a five speed when he was ready to buy. It was a nice feeling to be the only one with a Fit in the bracket that day. I think it was the first one to compete with these guys since most of them asked to ride along with me to see how she handled. I got a lot of complements on the color as well. Not too many Blackberry Pearl's in the SCCA.
So I competed in the STF class. From what I'm told this is a Houston only class and it is not strict on the modifications you can do to your car. I came in second place with a time of 60.332. The guy who beat me won by 1.2 seconds. He's been going out there for six months now. And considering this to be my first time. I don't think I did that bad. Here is the link to the results -->
http://houscca.com/solo/results07/07REG12R.TXT I must say, there were only two of us in this class so you can say I came in second or I came in last. But I prefer to say second.
Best time of my life. "Don't tell my wife I said that!" I plan on going every month from here on out so I'll get you updated on my progress and hope to become the STF Champion for 2008!!
This is the guy that beat me.
Happy Motoring!