B1G_M4K Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 Well, someone in my college car club mentioned that there was going to be an autocross event in Vermont that was a reasonable price to enter, and not too far away from where we are. Tons of people in the club, including me, decided that it would be awesome to go out and have some fun with our cars over the weekend. My car is in tip-top shape now that I inspected it with a fine toothed comb and replaced everything that needed to be replaced. Now, this is the first time I have ever entered any sort of racing event, so I am not sure what to expect when I get there and actually start racing. I am borrowing a friend's Snell racing helmet, so I am all set there. I just can't wait for the weekend! I promise to update and tell how everything went, hopefully with pictures and maybe video to enhance my presentation to you guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eirewolf Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 I did my first nasa race back in 1994, i was very nervous. after a few laps, it goes away and the fun kicks in. you should do fine! but yah, first couple laps, or however they do it in auto-x, just play it cool. get the nerves over with and it should be a fun time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B1G_M4K Posted October 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2010 Well, yesterday was in short, absolutely amazing! The course was set up on an oval track, and was extremely fast for an autocross event. For a run, you went around the oval twice, but due to the way it was set up, there were some differences between the first run and second run. Although I couldn't find either my still camera or video camera, The Sports Car Club of Vermont, who hosted the event, and some people from my car club did take pictures, and a couple of the drivers had mounted cameras. This is a guy in an old Volkswagen Sirocco going around the course later in the day. . My first run of the day, I took it somewhat easy just to test the waters with the car, and the course was rather cold and slick. I made it around the first time with no incident, and a very slow time of about 75 seconds. So, on the second lap, I went around much more aggressively. This resulted in me spinning on the second half of the run in the s-curves, and a decent amount of swearing by me. My third run was somewhat more aggressive than my first, but I only managed to set down a time of about 66.5 seconds around the course. After the third run, we switched from driving to corner working, and the other group (we split everyone into two running groups) raced around four times. One of the guys in a Honda S2000 hit a guard rail in the center of the track, damaging his car in an interesting way. Nobody was injured, and the car only had some body damage, no damage to the engine, and none really to the suspension, from what I could tell. He even drove the car back home with no issues. But, after the other group did their four runs, we switched again and our group did four more runs. The first run, I went into the bottom oval circuit corner a bit too aggressively, and put the rear end out. I tried to hold the car with opposite lock, but the car was too sideways for it to work. So, after a gratuitous amount of tire smoke, I finished that lap with a time of 80 seconds (lol). The second and third runs were about the same as my third run of my first set of runs, about 66 seconds. Then, on the fourth run, I finally smoothed out my line, and drove more aggressively without any major issues, and cut three seconds off of my time for a final run of 63.5 seconds, which I was rather happy with. After all of the timed runs were done, there were fun runs, which were $1 per run. Since I only had one dollar in my wallet, I only managed one fun run out on the course. These pictures were taken by one of the people in my car club during the one 'fun run' that I did.http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af213/ClarksonSportsCarClub/AutoX%202010/IMG_0244.jpg?t=1287956940http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af213/ClarksonSportsCarClub/AutoX%202010/IMG_0245.jpg?t=1287956970http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af213/ClarksonSportsCarClub/AutoX%202010/IMG_0246.jpg?t=1287956995http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af213/ClarksonSportsCarClub/AutoX%202010/IMG_0247.jpg?t=1287957023http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af213/ClarksonSportsCarClub/AutoX%202010/IMG_0248.jpg?t=1287957054http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af213/ClarksonSportsCarClub/AutoX%202010/IMG_0249.jpg?t=1287957096http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af213/ClarksonSportsCarClub/AutoX%202010/IMG_0250.jpg?t=1287957123http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af213/ClarksonSportsCarClub/AutoX%202010/IMG_0251.jpg?t=1287957144http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af213/ClarksonSportsCarClub/AutoX%202010/IMG_0252.jpg?t=1287957203http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af213/ClarksonSportsCarClub/AutoX%202010/IMG_0253.jpg?t=1287957203And throughout the event, I managed to only murder one cone! If I can find pictures that some of the people from the SCCV have taken for the event, and I happen to be in some of said pictures, I might post up those, as well as where I placed in my class (novice class), since none of that has been posted up by them as of yet (to my knowledge). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krash Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 What was the average time? Auto-x is awesome dude! Are you planning anything for the future? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strang3majik Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 holy nosedive...lol Looks like the back wheel is off the ground! But, looks like fun, man. I've been wanting to get into that lately, but, really don't have anything to do it with. Am planning on building an 80s dakota strictly for it though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skullzaflare Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 how much was it? im tempted to try it, but i have a feeling i can only do the parkinglot X's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B1G_M4K Posted January 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Yeah, I could feel the gratuitous amounts of body roll from the car as I was going around the track. The results page is here. As you can probably see, it was actually more than one cone that I managed to hit, and the 76 second and 82 second times were when I managed to spin the car after being a bit too spirited through some corners. I do definitely plan to autocross in the future, but I'm not sure when or where though... This particular event was $40 for me to enter, plus one re-fuel to get to Vermont and back, which in my opinion is a steal for the amount of fun one could have at an event like this. I forgot to mention that I believe this particular 'fun run' was probably the fastest run of the day for me . Also I have more pictures. http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs011.ash2/33935_165011080187597_100000361191660_384688_5034421_n.jpgwaiting in line... http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs096.snc4/36149_171632872847557_100000025358843_579625_8157444_n.jpgfrom a different angle... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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