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[Trekkor]

first lap is the warm up, second is timed.

Listen to me yelling at the end when I get my 34.485,
"that's what I wanted, right there"!

a/x

KT

[Steve_7x]

A bit of nostalgia from the 'old days'

When I started autocrossing (with GGR) in 1980, we had around 150 entrants. You were assigned a driver number based on the order that you registered (you wanted a very low number!). You lined your car up in lines broken down by car numbers. You signed up for 1 or 2 one hour shifts to work. The typical run was 1 practice and 2 timed laps, and participants had 2 to 3 runs (max) in a DAY. These runs were spread evenly throughout the day.. in other words you could easily have a 2+ hour wait between runs. We ran until 5:00pm - the last 15 minutes was in strict numerical order. There was no such thing as fun runs. Bottom line if you slept in you had a high number and were almsot guaranteed to get one less run then an early bird.

Autocrossing across Zone 7 has changed a lot over the years.

Infineon event

I saw the original plans for the Infineon event - and the course would have been more open and a lot different - but the Michael Andretti Trailer forced Kern and Matt to change about half the course and tighten things up significantly.

Other series'
As for SCCA events... I encourage folks to try them - the ones here in Nor Cal are very competitive. I ran a couple of SCCA and American Auto-X events in 2002 when I first got my car re-assembled and was trying to learn it. I did fairly well - but it also is a very humbling experience. There are excellent drivers and some very wild machines. Also in the events I ran, the structure of the courses appeared more wide open then what we have in GGR or Zone 7.

Going Faster
As for driving styles... one should not drive conservatively, however just being agressive can at times be counter productive. Remember the adage of 'slow down to go faster'. The comment I made to Trekkor about the one corner before the trailer demonstrates that. Going slower - would have made a better exit and a faster run.

just my $0.10

Steve