BMW Autocross #4, Saturday June 13 - TMS Bus Lot

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June is coming!

The #4 Lone Star BMWCCA autocross event of the year is around the corner as well.

Registration is open for the 2015 LSC BMWCCA AutoX #4 event on
Saturday, June 13th @ TMS. All makes are welcome.

Direct Registration Link:
http://www.dlbracing.com/Clubs/Registera.aspx?LMID=11&EventID=6006

Online registration is available until 6PM the evening before the event. Cost is $45.

We will also accept credit card payment on site. The total cost for on site payment is $50.

Tech Inspection:
All participant vehicles must pass Tech Inspection on site.
It begins at 8:00 am and will close at 9:00 am.

Novice Meeting:
You need to attend this meeting if this is your first time out with our club.
Novice meeting starts at 8:30 and is followed by a course walk.

Worker Assignment:
All participants are required to work during runs when they are not driving.
The assignments will be posted on the club van before the meetings.

Mandatory Driver's Meeting at 9:10 am.

First car planned to start at 9:30 am.
We will have 5 runs in the morning and 5 runs in the afternoon. 10 total runs per driver!

After the morning runs we will take an hour long lunch break before the afternoon runs
(we are not planning a grilled lunch for this event).

Also, see the full 2015 schedule.

Hope to see you there,

Franco Maras

LSC BMWCCA AutoX Chair

Will more than likely be there.

In!

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Course map?

^Course map is on BMW facebook. I am at work so can't post it.


Won't be able to make it myself something came up. :(

In. I finally get to AutoX the Datsun! NomadTrash thinks I'm crazy driving a 50 year old car to an event. We'll see what happens... lucky for me Hagerty has roadside assistance.

You are crazy man.

Course map

http://www.dfwmiata.com/attachment.p...tid=6823&stc=1

Where are the sweet jumps?

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Originally Posted by CosmosMpower

Where are the sweet jumps?

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In your pants

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Originally Posted by nomadtrash

You are crazy man.

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youve got a f***in dart in your neck!

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Originally Posted by ken o

In your pants

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I need you to keep at least 100 feet away from me at all times.

Fun HOT day - Punishing 180s! Whopper finish started out by 114!

Great time today. I drove from Frisco, raced, then drove back all without incident. Yea 1960's Japanese reliability!

So, yea, I'm missing several hundred horsepower and all the creature comfort's of Jo-Jo's car, but the main thing that really got to me? No dead-pedal. I wouldn't have guessed that, but man... if you don't have one you realize what a brilliant invention that is.

Well, my car is slow as s**t. I also wouldn't have imagined I'd ever be longing for all that NB horsepower. I'm going to celebrate and stick that dart in my neck now.

h20/r16 hybrid motor is the answer.

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Originally Posted by TexasStig

Great time today. I drove from Frisco, raced, then drove back all without incident. Yea 1960's Japanese reliability!

So, yea, I'm missing several hundred horsepower and all the creature comfort's of Jo-Jo's car, but the main thing that really got to me? No dead-pedal. I wouldn't have guessed that, but man... if you don't have one you realize what a brilliant invention that is.

Well, my car is slow as s**t. I also wouldn't have imagined I'd ever be longing for all that NB horsepower. I'm going to celebrate and stick that dart in my neck now.

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You mean that thing doesn't open up jars of caviar and spread a nice even dollop on toast points while uncorking a nice cold bottle of champagne? Time to sell it and buy a Porsche.

I had a good time (except the headache I have now) for not doing an autocross event in a year and a half or so. I went to kill my HPDE tires but only made them smoother :(

Run 10 48.8x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xWV-YWJM8A

Hot day and a fun course! Barely made it home before the sky opened up and dumped a cooling downpour.

Results?

Results

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHPGFSb660w&feature=youtu.be

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Originally Posted by Mark52

Hot day and a fun course! Barely made it home before the sky opened up and dumped a cooling downpour.

Results?

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Thanks Mark for letting me take that awesome car out for a lap !!!

I saw ya'll playing out there in the parking lot as I made my way in to watch the drifting event on the infield track. Interesting to note... the Drifters make fun of autocrossers just as much as autocrossers make fun of drifters. :D

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Originally Posted by Titus

I saw ya'll playing out there in the parking lot as I made my way in to watch the drifting event on the infield track. Interesting to note... the Drifters make fun of autocrossers just as much as autocrossers make fun of drifters. :D

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Surprised TMS let those drifters leave tire marks all over their track.

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Originally Posted by Titus

I saw ya'll playing out there in the parking lot as I made my way in to watch the drifting event on the infield track. Interesting to note... the Drifters make fun of autocrossers just as much as autocrossers make fun of drifters. :D

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...about as much as the Tire Manufacturers giggle at both groups!

Drifting is the figure skating of the motor sports world.
http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/im...8/blades01.jpg

And Autocross is? :D

http://i53.tinypic.com/vwrbqw.jpg

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Originally Posted by Titus

And Autocross is? :D

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The only thing ::Paul::'er than drifting, is watching drifting! :D

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Originally Posted by sammm

The only thing ::Paul::'er than drifting, is watching drifting! :D

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Yeah... that is what I thought as I looked at the fast cars and hot women all over... Man, this sure is ::Paul:: LOL.




In all honesty, I really had very little interest in going when Jamie invited my and just went because I wanted to get out of the house. As turned out, I had a great time. We got to get a really good look at the cars in the pits... While there were a lot of 240s, there was also multiple Miatas, 350zs, BMWs, a BRZ, a Mustang, an S2K, and others. During practice, the announcer talked about each car's mods and the experience of the driver (this is where the autocross jokes came in as at least 3 or 4 of the drivers autocrossed before getting in to drifting). Before qualifying began, the judges gave clear instructions on what they were looking for, what was a DNF, and what would cause points deduction (similar to missing a gate / hitting a cone in autocrossing). By the end I had a much more respect for the skills it takes and was really enjoying it. Plus there was a lot of hot girls. Based on the experience at this little regional event, I will probably go to see the pros when Formula Drift comes to TMS in August.

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Originally Posted by Titus

this is where the autocross jokes came in...

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So... tell us an Autox joke!

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Originally Posted by Titus

Before qualifying began, the judges gave clear instructions on what they were looking for, what was a DNF, and what would cause points deduction (similar to missing a gate / hitting a cone in autocrossing). [/SIZE]

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That's cool, but I'm skeptical it can compete with the off-color commentary of KenO. And I'm not even bringing up the inappropriate touching.

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Originally Posted by TexasStig

So... tell us an Autox joke!

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They would make funny comments... don't recall verbatim but they were along the lines of:

"John Doe from Houston up next in his 350z. After autocrossing for several years, John showed up at one of our events last summer to see what we are all about. Now we can't seem to get rid of him, as he says we are a lot more fun than then the autocrossers."

or

"Mike ended up at one of our Mineral Wells events by accident after mis-reading his autocross calendar. I'm not sure if he fell in love with the drifting, or if it was all the free alcohol we always have Saturday night, but he hasn't missed an event since."

Meh. I was hoping for the "Jerrett, a transvestite monkey and a preacher walk into a bar..." variety.

Finally uploaded my video

https://vimeo.com/130698629