{"id":699,"date":"2018-07-24T19:42:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T02:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2019-01-09T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T18:10:18","slug":"2018-pacific-northwest-historics-kent-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"2018 Pacific Northwest Historics- Kent, WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-700\" style=\"width: 4032px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1632.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-700\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1632.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1632.jpg 4032w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1632-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1632-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1632-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The &#8216;Before&#8217; picture of both cars.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We raced the Koepchen 2002 and NSU 1200TT at the 2018 PNW Historics on June 29- July 1. The weekend turned out tube a real mixed bag.<\/p>\n<p>The 2002 ran well all weekend, but the driver was off his game just a little.<\/p>\n<p>The NSU was a lot of fun to drive, but its run came to an abrupt end on Saturday afternoon in the rain.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first outing for the NSU. I had purchased it last winter and had it shipped to Seattle. After its arrival Jim did a thorough inspection and came up with a list of items needing attention.<\/p>\n<p>I had him work through the list and get the car ready for this event. It needed new seat-belts, an updated fire system, some electrical sorting, etc. Nothing major.<\/p>\n<p>I was pretty excited to get to the track and see the car all ready to go. I was even more excited to get in it and have a go.<\/p>\n<p>I last drove an NSU back in 1971. I had a car just like this that I autocross, ice raced, and did my first SCCA Driver&#8217;s School in. I then sold it and built a Mazda RX-2 to race.<\/p>\n<p>I should have kept the NSU!<\/p>\n<p>Everything went well with the NSU until Saturday afternoon. I had entered it in the USRRC race to get some extra seat time. After about 3-4 laps rain moved in from the west end of the track, which means Turn 2 got wet first.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-701\" style=\"width: 4032px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1633.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-701\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1633.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1633.jpg 4032w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1633-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1633-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1633-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After I ran out of talent.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My first time through the turn I spun. The second time through Turn 2 I started to spin, caught it, but the car snapped back the other way and went straight off into a dirt bank. OUCH!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PNW Historics 2018-  Group 1 Highlights\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FmZ0zIBDWhU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The K2002 had a better weekend. It had no problems and ran perfectly all weekend. I just was not on my game for this event.<\/p>\n<p>in my defense, I did get hit by another competitor in the first race. The other driver wanted to blame me for everything. I wanted to call it a racing incident. You can watch the video and make up your own mind.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PNW Historics 2018-  Group 2 Highlights\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kdyRXNZ333Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We raced the Koepchen 2002 and NSU 1200TT at the 2018 PNW Historics on June 29- July 1. The weekend turned out tube a real mixed bag. The 2002 ran well all weekend, but the driver was off his game just a little. The NSU was a lot of fun to drive, but its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/?p=699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2018 Pacific Northwest Historics- Kent, WA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,19,6],"tags":[23,32,33,34],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","category-events","category-nsu-tts","category-races","tag-bmw-2002","tag-nsu-tts","tag-seattle","tag-sovren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}