3 for 3 ~ Hyde takes 3rd straight win and 2nd straight hill climb record

[JekylandHyde]

Wow, what a weekend.

I was having major issues with my brakes all weekend, but I managed to adjust to the poor performance I was getting from them and succeeded in winning the Pagoda Hill Climb.

The previous hill record for the SM2 (street modified 2-seaters) was 60.9 seconds. I had gone 61.7 last year.

This year I spanked out a 59.8! ... it is extremely rare for a street legal car to go under a minute on this hill so I was shocked. I did manage 4 other runs at 60.**, two of those were 60.0Xs.

So I won the SM2 class and set the hill record for the class.
This season I have 3 wins, a third and an 8th.

The awesome part is I am really not happy with the cars performance.
There is a lot of tweaking that needs to be done.

Photos here (I think there is 4 shots of Hyde there) :
http://www.enter.net/~tdu/Places/Hil...a05/index.html

The Yellow Audi was the only door car faster than me, but that is a full blown race car ~ not street legal. That Audi was insane, twin-turbo 2.6 liter 6 cylinder and AWD ... and serious brakes. I am on my stock brakes that were performing really poorly. He was on slicks and I was on sticky-Kumhos. He ran a best of 58 and I went 59 so I am not complaining.

[gkcopperdrag]

Awesome man and congrats. Keep representing. =)

[MR2Jedi]

I guess when you're hot you're hot....all right Doc!!! awsome!!! looks like there's nothin can hold you back. regardless of the obsticles thrown in your path...lotta nice pics ...beautiful scenery too...oh , BTW, can I get your autograph

[Komodo]

[gkcopperdrag]

Do you plan on racing anywhere near florida this summer? My wife and I would definately go to cheer ya on if possible.

[JekylandHyde]

Thanks for the support everyone

Almost all of my racing is in Pennsylvania nad New Jersey.
Now that I have a truck and an enclsoed trailer, I can travel farther to race.

The problem is getting time off of work and being able to afford gas for the towing rig and places to sleep.

I do not plan on traveling for drag races until I am at least in the very low 11s consistently.
I would love to travel for other hill climb events, but there are not many around.

Find me a hill climb, a cheap place to stay or camp and I just might make a trip

[stgranger]

Hey, nice job. Sounds like you are on a winning streak. Did you get any videos of this race. I wouldnt mind seeing them if you have any.

-scott

[JekylandHyde]

I only have video from last year ... I did not record this weekend at all.

This event was 1 mile, in August we run the same hill but it is a 2.3 mile course.
There is an in-car video on my Web site of that course.

You can get a DVD of 2 hours of my racing on twosrus.com here:
http://www.twosrus.com/new/Lower_Fra...apotheosis.htm

[andyb16]

Great job!!! I wish we had cool events like that in MO.

I highly suggest picking up the DVD too. It's well worth it. Keep it up Jeff!!!

[Drifting Dane]

Hey Jeff, how did that black No. 16 RX-7 do? im curious as to how he measured up to you

ps- is there a website that shows all the rules of SCCA solo II races (or more specifically for us MR2s)

Great job BTW!

thanks

[JekylandHyde]

The black RX7 is fast as hell. At this event I got him by 1 second.
At the last event he got me by 3 seconds!

You asked about rules for Solo II.
Solo II is autocrossing which is not the same thing as hillclimbing.

Solo II info here: www.autox4u.com
Hill Climbing info here: www.pahillclimb.org

[Drifting Dane]

Thanks a bunch. Im looking into competing in some races myself.

[whocares04]

Originally Posted by JekylandHyde

a cheap place to stay

hey, i'm sure all u guys have guest rooms, etc. that he can stay at if he traveled