[2000SoCalBoxsterS]

On Saturday morning I had my first experience with AutoX at the Metro NY PCA clubs AutoX school. We started at 7am and finished up at about 3:30 PM. I had a great time, learned a lot, and met some very nice people.

The AutoX school was followed up on Sunday June 8th with a regular competitive AutoX event. Although it was fun and a good learning experience I'm not cazy about AutoX. I felt the runs were too short and you really have to throw the car around and work your suspension and tires hard. I will definitely do it again but not that often.

On July 4th I'm doing my first DE on the full 2.5 mile Pocono Raceway. I think I'm going to like the DE event better.

At the AutoX school I did well on the individual exercises : S-curves (Esses) with slalom, Late Braking, Apexes, Figure 8. But then later in the day they put them all together into one huge course I really sucked. Parts of the course just looked like a sea of cones to me and I had a hard time seeing the gates. It might have been that after 7 hours in humid 90+ degree weather ( and badly sunburned) I was just stupid from dehydration.

Anyway, for AutoCross I felt my GT3 seats did not hold me as well as I would have expected (wanted) but on a less jerky race track I hope they work better. I'm also a little disappointed in that I may have to spend some more money on BK lowering seat brackets because even with my lower than stock GT3 seats and my BK rollbar extender, with my helmet on, I am still about an inch too high to pass the broomstick test. My alternative to spending about $176 per seat on the lowering brackets may be to remove the seat padding from my seats.

I'll update this post when I have my solution and also after Pocono