I did my first AutoCross today

[Troike]

Just found out last weekend about one in town, decided I had to check it out ... and run it too.

Was much easier than I anticipated ... I figured on stock suspension, as a complete n00b, I'd be losing track of the course / plowing cones / barely carrying corners, especially when I saw much better cars drawing DNFs from mistakes ...

But I ended up with clean runs ... my best was 71.6 ... by comparo, some of the worst ran 100s and the top cars (Z06, STI, MCS) ran 62-63s.

I'll post up some pics or times as I get them. I definately have the bug now though :D

And where the hell do you get those helmets at anyway?

[Paul]

look for Snell SA2005 rated helmets only if you plan on doing any other type of driving event.

Where to buy? Local race shops (not tuners) like Subesports.

[Troike]

Ran #2 yesterday, this time with my new suspension setup [also a loose strut bearing, found that out after ...]

Didn't do quite as well as I'd hoped ... last run was good, but the course was much less technical, more tight, slightly slower ... wish my gearbox wasn't crap so I could have had more confidence and tried to downshift to 1st a few times.

But hey, did get some pics taken:

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/7/web/379000-379999/379105_151_full.jpg

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/7/web/379000-379999/379105_150_full.jpg

[mario]

pretty soon i'll be running "formula" autox

[Troike]

Ran an awesome, fast/large track last week ... that'll be my last for a while, need to rest the car, or maybe throw some $$ at the brakes / rear wheel noise ...

Local club posted a random pic of my car tho, better than the others:

http://wmclub.org/images/06event2/DSC00084.jpg

Kinda like crack ... costs ~$20 and only lasts a few minutes, but damn is intense :tup:

[Paul]

autox brakes = track pads, IF you have time to warm it up before your run group... otherwise very aggressive street pads.

[Arts_1_8t]

nice!!! :tup: :tup:

[creanium]

As far as helmets, here's the one I use:

http://www.soloracer.com/pyroopenfacesa.html

Fits nicely and is light enough that I don't really feel that it's on me.

If you've got the racing bug, now it's time to move up to full track racing, heh ;)

[ReNNeN.CaRL]

congrats. looks like youre having a blast.