Autocross and Road Course Racing - autox number 2

my second autocross is this saturday. = )

super stoked. just bought a sony handycam dvd camcorder and a suction cup mount for it. so i'll have video's hopefully saturday night.

this one isnt an scca event tho. so its going to be way smaller. probably about 50 or 60 cars. its hosted by the chicago volkswagen organization.

(anybody in the chicagoland area should come. its at maywood park in melrose park 8:00 am registration and tech inspection)

im going to try to get lots of good pictures with my digital rebel xt.

autox =bliss

my is this sunday

where at?

Boeing Helicopter plant in Ridley Park, PA

sweet deal. good luck. :)

pics and vids!! we wanna see. lol

well I need to go to aberdeen and beat civicexracer for his cameramount:-D As far as pics, my coworkers are coming out to spectate, so there should be tons of pics

ahah, thats if u can catch me[8D]

good luck and def. post vid and pics!

AJ, I'll challenge you to a dragrace since I'm not good at autocross yet:-D I'll even limit boost to 4 psi:-D

lol. ooh a challenge. haha

i got some pretty good vids today.. i tried out some different angles and all that jazz as well.

civicexracer.. omg. how do you handle uploading all your vids onto putfile. it takes foreverrrrr. haha

i'll put the links up here as they upload..

this is my buddy scottie in his screaming yellow ford focus svt.. his first run..
http://media.putfile.com/scottie1-cvoax-428
scottie's 3rd run.. the camera turned off o his second run for some reason.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdMg-CBWeis
here is my first run..
http://media.putfile.com/will1-cvoax-428
my second run
http://media.putfile.com/will2-cvoax-428

EDIT: uploads arent working. = / i'll try to get them up asap.

EDIT: it worked when i refreshed. haha. uploading the rest of them currently.

You need a stiffer camera mount...

it was the car roto not the mount. the parking lot was terrible. it was all torn up and there was cracks and bumps everywhere.

everybody was complaining about it.

the course was extraordinarily technical. the fastest part of the course was about 35 mph and that was just on one straight. the rest of the course was right around 5 or 10 miles an hour.. 15 if you were lucky.. then you had to slow down again. im working on a course map... (had to make my own cuz they didnt provide us with one.)

and the strange thing is.. as the day went on.. the course got slicker. you'd think all the rubber from everyone's tires around the curves would help you stick. but it made you slide like a mother fcker. some turns i was actually drifting my gti around.

edit: heres the course map.. i tried to make it as close to scale as possible.
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/badb0ybilly/axmap.jpg

i've never had a problem with putfile, thats why i use it. usually takes me about a min or 2 to upload a vid. looks like some good fun. i was gena mention the pavement, does look pretty bad..the reason it prolly got slicker run after run was because ur tires were prolly getting too hot. alot of the more serious racers bring water sprayers and spray their tires inbetween runs to keep them cool. also could very well be ur tire pressure. what psi did u run at?

Not sure if you'll see any pics from me as my wife wasn't there to take pics. I am more than satisfied with this event. Loads of fun, plus I only got off course once and it was cause I slip past the turn in point...overall I am outclassed in STX until my suspension is done. Those scoobies sure pwnt Roto. Understeer and torque limiter in 1st and 2nd gears plus my crappy tires...let's just say it was challenging.

civicexracer. yes that probably could be it.. that my tires were too hot. (i need new ones..) i ran 37 psi in the front and 39 in the back. (thats what i set it at in the morning. but i didnt adjust it all day. because i had to borrow someones tire guage and compressor n i didnt want to keep bugging them for it.)

roto: the course i ran yesterday was the definition of challenging. definitely favored very small, very light, rwd and awd cars. because they could slide their tail end around to get a straight line for the next gate.. (even tho they werent supposed to.. cuz every autocrosser knows the first words of the drivers meeting is always "this is not a drift course" lol)

the parking lot we used was relatively small, so the course had to be tight and they had to control the speed. i had fun.. but i was not a big fan of the course..

try switching the pressures around, 39 front and 37 rear. u might like the way the car handles that way. thats usually what i run on warm days. a small course is great not matter fwd, awd, rwd. u can get the rear end to slide out on a fwd and not lose time doing so. when u carry enough speed into a turn and brake, the rear will slide out naturally, and can be very helpful when coming out of the turn. just be sure that it dosnt swing out too much.

got bored tonight and just made this gif here.. kinda jumps at the end there. (my camera will only take 16 pictures in a row before it has to like reset)

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/badb0ybilly/scottiestart.gif