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986barnum 03-08-2008 07:55 PM

in car autocross video
 
from today in San Diego... sound quality is awful, i've got to get a better mic. some fast boxsters there today! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxpDc40vql4

renzop 03-09-2008 03:32 PM

I love the giant slalom cones!

jderiansf 03-09-2008 03:57 PM

That course seemed to go on forever! :cool:

How did you do?

Jason

kabel 03-10-2008 05:20 AM

Fun!
Looked more like a mini-road course with all those cones!
How fortunate you are to have such a big site to run on.

John V 03-10-2008 06:39 AM

No autocross around here in months, and it's still a month off :(

Here are my videos from the SCCA Solo nationals 2007, East course:

http://teamwtf.org/content/view/325/63/

Think the second run was 4th or 5th fastest on the day.

steve00s 03-10-2008 12:35 PM

I'm never seen a course lined with so many cones. I'm used to seeing about one/tenth as many and having to find your way around. Thats like following the yellow brick road.

CJ_Boxster 03-10-2008 02:37 PM

Too bad the sound wasnt there, Looks like a lot of fun i would have loved to hear it.

silver arrow 04-20-2008 06:51 PM

Pretty tight course, did you ever make it out of first gear? Autocrosses my newly acquired 2000 Boxster in Gainsville, FL today and found 1st gear to be very long and usable and 2nd gear to be to tall for most parts of the course.

boxs2000 04-20-2008 07:53 PM

That actually looks like a wide course. It looks like a fast course too sounded like you can get it pretty high in 2nd gear. Our courses in the PCA GGR reagion has been a little tighter since our course designers tend to be 914 guys and those things are made for tight courses, either way still alot of fun and very addictive. If your new in Autocross you should get the book "The secrets of solo racing" very informative and can really help you understand what your car is doing and will do. :cheers:

kabel 04-21-2008 06:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by silver arrow
Autocrosses my newly acquired 2000 Boxster in Gainsville, FL today

Ah, ran with the Buccaneer Region SCCA eh? Good bunch of folks.
I was up at the Gainesville road course a little over a week ago and brought the Boxster out there for the first time (I usually run the miata). Had it almost to the top of third gear going down the back straight! :D

Not my car but here is a vid from my friends miata of the configuration we ran:
http://www.soma07.com/MSCC0408Run3.wmv (save link as).

silver arrow 04-21-2008 06:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kabel
Ah, ran with the Buccaneer Region SCCA eh? Good bunch of folks.
I was up at the Gainesville road course a little over a week ago and brought the Boxster out there for the first time (I usually run the miata). Had it almost to the top of third gear going down the back straight! :D

Not my car but here is a vid from my friends miata of the configuration we ran:
http://www.soma07.com/MSCC0408Run3.wmv (save link as).

That's Gainsville but I don't think that was an SCCA autocross, ours keep the speeds much lower with lots of cones and slaloms. Looks fun though.

silver arrow 04-21-2008 07:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by boxs2000
That actually looks like a wide course. It looks like a fast course too sounded like you can get it pretty high in 2nd gear. Our courses in the PCA GGR reagion has been a little tighter since our course designers tend to be 914 guys and those things are made for tight courses, either way still alot of fun and very addictive. If your new in Autocross you should get the book "The secrets of solo racing" very informative and can really help you understand what your car is doing and will do. :cheers:

Good book, read it a years ago. Our sites must just be larger or maybe it just looks tighter than it was in the video. Either way looked fun, but lots of 90 deg turns and the driving line was pretty narrow.

kabel 04-21-2008 08:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by silver arrow
That's Gainsville but I don't think that was an SCCA autocross,

Your are correct, not an SCCA event. It was with the Martin Sports Car Club (based out of Orlando), a local private club. We run Gainesville twice a year in what we call our Mini-Prix. It's a chance to put away most of the cones and run a more open, faster course... Something we cannot do at our home site. We should be up there again in the Fall. :cool:

silver arrow 04-22-2008 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kabel
Your are correct, not an SCCA event. It was with the Martin Sports Car Club (based out of Orlando), a local private club. We run Gainesville twice a year in what we call our Mini-Prix. It's a chance to put away most of the cones and run a more open, faster course... Something we cannot do at our home site. We should be up there again in the Fall. :cool:

Give me a heads up when you do it in the fall, I live in South Georgia and autocross at Gainsville all the time. Would love to run with out all those pesky cones. :D


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