I used to auto-x quite a bit out in the Boston area. The courses there were well over a minute long, you had to either use a bike or skates to "walk them". However, most auto-x's are closer to 30-40 seconds in length and you spend all damn day out there.
I no longer do them. I can't justify spending 10+ hours of my Saturday away for well under 6 minutes of seat time when I can spend the same time away at a HPDE and get HOURS of seat time. ________________________________ From: Les Noriel <[email protected]> To: Volkswagen a2 16v discussion list <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 9:47 PM Subject: Re: [a2-16v-list] auto-x yesterday Glad to hear you did it! I've always wanted to try that. I recently attended the A & B courses at the Jim Hall Kart Racing School. I'm hooked. What I think I learned is how much I didn't know. I used to believe I was a pretty good driver until I got on the track with real racers. Although I understood the basics going into the courses, Trail braking was probably the strangest thing for me to comprehend. I'm not sure I got it entirely correct but trying to employ the technique after several hours on the track dropped 3-4 seconds off my lap times. I've never tried Autocross as a driver--only as a spectator. I'm sure I'll be looking for the local meet as soon as my 16V is roadworthy. -Les On 12/11/11 11:13 AM, "Chad Rebuck" <[email protected]> wrote: >I took the jetta to an autox yesterday which was my second or third >time at such an event (the first was likely in 2006). It was decent >fun, but for a total of 6 minutes of driving I just can't see how >people get so dedicated to it. I may be biased because I kept missing >the 4th slalom of the course and treating it as one big wall so I >received 5 "did not finish" runs and only a single clean one. The >entire course is limited to 2nd gear, so once yet get the speed up >just leave it in 2nd and ignore it. I didn't hit a cone all day so I >must not have been aggressive enough out there. > >There was one thing I managed to break during this 6 minutes of >driving... the fuel sender or gauge quit on me. > >I also think I have to get used to using the peloquin diff to pull the >car around some corners. It still seemed to want to understeer a >bunch at the longest 180 degree portion of the track, but I wasn't >trying to drive it any different than I was used to with the open >diff. > >I think I'll skip autox for a while anyway, unless some friends drag >me out there to hang out some day. I'm looking to book a day at >Sebring in the next couple months so I can get speed, big corners, and >lots of driving time in during the day. >_______________________________________________ >a2-16v-list mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list
