Blaine Street Solo 2002
Annie and I attended the Blaine Grand Prix, aka Blaine Street Solo on August 10th and 11th, in Blaine, Washington. Blaine is a small town at the border between Washington and Canada. There is the normal crossing just west of here for cars, but Blaine is where the truck crossing is.
The Street Solo is run on public roads in an industrial park. The city of Blaine has been very accommodating and allows the Chuckanut Sports Car Club (CSCC) to close down the streets that we use for this event. Since these are public streets, they have curbs on both sides of the two lane roads, along with the normal fire hydrants, utility poles, etc. So obviously, there is more risk involved than a normal autocross, but it's a real blast to run on public streets!
We decided since we were so close to Nationals, that rather than taking a chance with Bart (our '98 Type R) on the streets, that we'd take Eddie (our '90 Spec Miata road race car.)
The CSCC put on an excellent event, allowing us two runs Saturday evening on a course that was different from the actual event, and then a total of four more runs on Sunday using the actual course.
Since the Spec Miata isn't classed in SCCA for 2002, we ran it in DP, which hurt us on the index. For 2003, the car will be classed in DSP. Annie and I used this index when we were seeing how we did, and I would have had top Pax for the day on both Saturday and Sunday.
Here are some pictures of us running at the event. The CSCC people took pictures on Sunday morning, and had them developed and waiting for us when the day was over!
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