well today was fun. weather was great, sunny, close to 80's. i believe there were about 280 cars out racing along with some shifter karts. the course was close to a mile long. it was a very fast course tho, not very technical, which i hate. it deffenitly favored the higher horsepower cars. i'd say the average time posted was prolly between 60-65 seconds.

course map


pic from the morning grid, which i didnt run. in the afternoon there were a handfull of Z06's, Elise, Caterham's, and a bunch of other mean cars.


stuck the camera mount on my sunroof. made for some great vid and the wind wasnt a big issue minus the parts when i was driving into the wind..
http://media.putfile.com/DC-AutoX-4-22-07-Run-1

http://media.putfile.com/DC-AutoX-4-22-07-Run-2

http://media.putfile.com/DC-AutoX-4-22-07-Run-3

http://media.putfile.com/DC-AutoX-4-22-07-Run-4

over all im not very happy with the way i ran. for one thing, this is prolly the fastest course i've ever driven. im more used to the technical, sharp turns, chicago boxes, tight slaloms, etc courses. one thing i had a problem with here was finding the right line and sticking with it. i tried a couple different lines and they just didnt feel right and my results reflect that. i have no idea how i placed, i kno not great, but w/e. ill have some more pics tomorrow prolly. another teams photographer was out all day today and i kno he has a bunch of great shots.

 

looks like fun, i really need to start autoxing, i'm all over it when i'm out of college for the summer, just need some new wheels and tires.

 

sweet stuff man, hope you had as much fun today as i did.

 

man checking it out again, that definately was a lot more open than the course we ran today. Also, it was a lot more controlled than all the runs today, but I think that's because it was wet and there was some gravel out, definately some traction issues.

 

Oh, forgot to mention. I saw a crx running the same falken hanabi's you have. H ehad two sets, one silver, one bronze. One had his race rubber and the other had his street tires.

 

ya i had a great time as always. as bad as i may have ran, its still too fun and i dont really care much about the times. i walked away learning how important finding ur line and sticking with it is. this new camera mount is gena help me out a lot. watching back at the vid, i can see where i screwed up and now know where to improve on for other races. i really need to hit up another novice school tho...

 

looked good exracer. your last run was def way better than your first. you improved a ton between them. there were still some spots that it seemed like you slowed down where you probably should have sped up.. (but i could be really wrong.. hard to tell from a video) but it definitely looked like a beautiful day.

i also feel somewhat compelled to tell you that i drove by that stadium in march. my buddy and i took a road trip from chicago to md/de/pa (the tri state area right there) because his family lives out there.. (he actually went to school in aberdeen for a year or 2.. i read in some thread that you live in aberdeen)

also.. is that the 3 suction cup camera mount you used from soloperformance.com? do you like it??

i just bought that mount n i'll have some vids up next weekend after my next event.

happy autocrossing. = D

 

ya i kno where i could have improved thanks to the video. i can see clearly where i need to improve on. i dont live in aberdeen but i race there. how far is FedEx from u? ya i got the mount from www.soloperformace.com, and ya i love it. works great and its very strong.

 

how far is fedex from me?? what?

 

TeamWTF?!'s photographer took a ton of pics but i decided to just take 1 car from each class to share. sorta gives u an idea of what cars run in what class and such too..

A Stock

A Street Prepared

B Stock

B Street Prepared

The DC Region bus and FedEx Stadium behind

C Prepared

C Stock

C Street Prepared

D Street Prepared

E Modified

E Prepared

E Stock

E Street Prepared

F125 Karts

F Modified

F Prepared

F Stock

F Street Prepared

G Stock

H Stock

Junior Karts

Street Mod

Street Mod2

Street Touring S2

Street Touring U

Street Touring X

Super Stock(


X Prep



and since my friends and i ran in Street Touring S




cant wait for the next event. ill have a few more goodies on by then