Who all is going?
I will also be attending the night autocross on Saturday 9/8.
More info at http://www.lscbmwcca.org/.
You must pre-register for these events at www.dlbracing.com. They do not have on-site registration.
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Who all is going?
I will also be attending the night autocross on Saturday 9/8.
More info at http://www.lscbmwcca.org/.
You must pre-register for these events at www.dlbracing.com. They do not have on-site registration.
I will be there. First BMWCCA event in a while, but we're running short on testing time before Nationals.
I'm in for Sunday only. Saturday is my grandson's 1st birthday party.
In for Sunday only, don't know what I'll be driving. Sold the wheels/tires for the RX-8.
*cough* 93LE *cough*Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmosMpower
Driving a 90whp car on a 100mph lot doesn't sound like much fun to me. It's already too freaking slow for pennington. If one of you guys would hurry up and buy the RX-8 i could be there in a smaller car that rattles more than the miata.Quote:
Originally Posted by Titus
I have beaten a lot more powerful cars out there in my 90whp car. Maybe it is not all the car's fault. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmosMpower
Yeah maybe not. Some drivers may just find it hard to wrangle the extra 20 whp that an NB or similar higher hp car puts out ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by jrj512
I've beaten people that have beaten people in a lot more powerful cars in there own car the first time I've ever driven them. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by jrj512
;)
BTW, I'll see you guys on Sunday.
Precisely! CosmosMPower, let Miatamoto drive your car this weekend and you will see what I have seen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Miatamoto
Fire? ::Flame::Quote:
Originally Posted by jrj512
:clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by Treibenschnell
That, too! :D
Been there done that, ended up with blue brakes and empty gas tank ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by jrj512
I'm out. Committed myself to another event before thinking about the autocross. :(
LOL! Forgot about the brakes, maybe we can set them on fire next time. :clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmosMpower
LOL, I don't think that car will be autocrossed again (at least for now, we'll see).Quote:
Originally Posted by Miatamoto
I have to admit, the night AX was actually pretty cool. It really is just a bunch of timed fun runs and it is all very casual. Just pull up and run as many times as you want.
As they say, you actually see the course better with your lights off because you can look ahead further. There are no corner workers. One color of glow stick on the right cones and another color on the left cones. Since we had already gotten to know the course during daylight fun runs, you do not get lost as you might expect at night, plus it is surprising how much of the course you can see.
Good food, too.
Off to set up today's course...
Not a bad event, other than the timing issues towards the end. Whoever desgined that course is greatness! ;)
Congrats to Miatamoto on his X-class win.
Good stuff! Great course jrj512.
I wish I would have gone a little faster in the afternoon, but I just kept messing up at least one element. Just couldn't get it all together.
Great course jrj512!
Congrats on miatamoto and jrj512 for their 1st and 2nd finishes respectively.:clap:
Good event minus the timing issues, very good course design. Couldn't get a few elements together either but still had a fun day.
+1 for a great course. Fast, fun and challenging. I enjoyed to day.
Altiain asked me after the race if I had learned anything that day. I was at a loss because I had not yet thought about it. I do not know if he meant in regards to course design, driving, or either, but now that I've had my reflection time while running tonight, I can tell you what I learned.
Probably because the course was so fast, I found myself coming into turns a lot faster than I intended. In a one case, I mowed over a cone. In a few cases, I plowed fields, but missed cones. BUT, in several cases, I turned the wheel and the car turned right along with it! I thought I was going too fast and figured it was going to be ugly, but the car turned.
Miatamoto used to get on me for two things -- I was not carrying enough momentum into corners and not rolling back into the throttle early enough exiting the corner. I have been working on the latter most of the year and feel that I have improved, but I am still too cautious entering the turns. My experiences yesterday proved that and has hopefully given me more confidence to start carrying more speed into the turns.
To a lesser extent, I again reminded myself that I need to push harder earlier. At BMW and S2000, you get eight runs to slowly build up your speed through parts of the course where you went too slow. For example, I found that I could almost keep it floored on the backstretch, I could carry more speed entering the slalom after the Z, and I could keep is floored almost all the way through the last section before the finish. If this were an SCCA race where you only get three or four tries, I might never have realized it. I need to get braver sooner.
Thanks for asking, Altiain.
Video!!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...76767312441655
This is my actual fastest run. The 88.3 was actually a DNF (Mark has been notified). Like I was saying, I just couldn't piece it all together. There were lots of mistakes on this run but it ended up being my fastest.
It's easier to say than do when you don't have much experience but it's much easier to force yourself to slow down than it is to speed up. Don't be afraid to go out on your first run and try to set the world on fire. Often you'll be surprised that what you expected to be "scary" turns out to merely be a great run! Better yet when you do screw up and blow it you can write it off as being the first run ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by jrj512
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by Prova7
When I went to Evo school a couple of years ago Andy Hollis said that you don't have a run to waste feeling it out at the high levels of compeition. I've been working on trusting the car and going full out on the first run since then.
I've had pretty good luck doing that in the Miata, but it's been a learning process in the RX8 since it's new to me.
Not for me, I really have to force myself to back off on corner entry speed sometimes. Ask Miatamoto, I'm the king of overdriving ::Drive2::Quote:
Originally Posted by Prova7