So I went Autocrossing for the first time! It was alot more straight forward than I thought it would be..
Here is how stuff went...
- I got to the track at 8:30am...
- Found a place to park, hung out a bit and talked to a bunch of people... A long time veteran walked the course with me and gave me a bunch of pointers! Was really cool.
- Everyone there was really great and willing to help!
- Emptied everything out of the car, and went over it before inspection...
- Registered, got my number (101) ironic... yes.. lol
- Car was inspected, passed fine.. Got a class assigned to me.. (GS)
- Everyone got assigned a car group.. I was in Group 2, group 1 ran first... Everyone from group 2 was assigned a job to do, like upright knocked over cones, and what not.. I was assigned to write down times on the board lol...
- At around 11:30-12:00 I had my first run! It went amazingly better than I thought it would.. I was worried about missing a turn, or running over cones, but I didn't even had to think about where to turn.. It just seemed natural, like I've ran the course before...
- My first run I ran a ~1:49.xx, then on my second run I ran a 1:41.xx, and leveled out around there with the rest of my runs...
- The all season tires on my car really killed me... They were good for about half the run, then at the end half I had to really slow down because they would over heat and get slippery.
The course was 1.2 miles start to finish...
- There was about 35-40 cars that showed up... Next one im going to, same layout, and same place will have probably over 100 cars...
Cliffs:
I had a blast! Most fun i've had in a long time... The course was really nice too, lots of high speeds parts, and laid out really nice.
Now for the media...
Video of my Rado 3 wheelin.
I was told I was 3 wheeling around over half the course.. lol
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoSP6lRnOj4
If that doesn't work...
http://www.area51.infiniteorig...n.wmv
And a few pics.
The Green pooper...
Me under HARD braking...
And here is a rough layout of the 1.2mile course.
More in next post...
Here is how stuff went...
- I got to the track at 8:30am...
- Found a place to park, hung out a bit and talked to a bunch of people... A long time veteran walked the course with me and gave me a bunch of pointers! Was really cool.
- Everyone there was really great and willing to help!
- Emptied everything out of the car, and went over it before inspection...
- Registered, got my number (101) ironic... yes.. lol
- Car was inspected, passed fine.. Got a class assigned to me.. (GS)
- Everyone got assigned a car group.. I was in Group 2, group 1 ran first... Everyone from group 2 was assigned a job to do, like upright knocked over cones, and what not.. I was assigned to write down times on the board lol...
- At around 11:30-12:00 I had my first run! It went amazingly better than I thought it would.. I was worried about missing a turn, or running over cones, but I didn't even had to think about where to turn.. It just seemed natural, like I've ran the course before...
- My first run I ran a ~1:49.xx, then on my second run I ran a 1:41.xx, and leveled out around there with the rest of my runs...
- The all season tires on my car really killed me... They were good for about half the run, then at the end half I had to really slow down because they would over heat and get slippery.
The course was 1.2 miles start to finish...- There was about 35-40 cars that showed up... Next one im going to, same layout, and same place will have probably over 100 cars...
Cliffs:
I had a blast! Most fun i've had in a long time... The course was really nice too, lots of high speeds parts, and laid out really nice.
Now for the media...
Video of my Rado 3 wheelin.
I was told I was 3 wheeling around over half the course.. lol
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoSP6lRnOj4
If that doesn't work...
http://www.area51.infiniteorig...n.wmv
And a few pics.
The Green pooper...
Me under HARD braking...
And here is a rough layout of the 1.2mile course.
More in next post...
