AUTOCROSS - August 2006
Finally...
After searching around since this past April, when Hawaii Raceway Park closed, the Autocross scene is up and running again at Aloha Stadium. Just in the nick of time too since I started to get some withdrawal symptoms over the last 4 or 5 months.
Since everyone else too, had withdrawal symptoms, the field quickly filled up to the 100 car maximum. As of race morning, there were probably only about 12 open spots left for people who didn't pre-register...and I think some who showed up looking for open spots left disappointed. Probably the largest field since I started racing earlier this year.
In my class, D Stock, there were 6 cars with the following results:
Mark P. Acura Integra 36.013
Dan C. BMW 325is 38.639
Tim M. Lexus IS350 39.068
Steven S. BMW 325it 39.543
Nevan B. Integra TypeR 40.087
Nicole W. BMW 325 49.83
I was pretty happy with my result as (excuses coming up) I was the only one running on all-season treads, and my car (wagon) has the lowest power to weight ratio of all the D stockers plus it's an automatic.
I ran really consistently with 4 runs in the 39 second range except for one run with a cone time penalty. For me, the challenge was in deciding the line to take in the 2 decreasing radius turns since the course was set up very wide and you could take whatever line you wanted. In my case, I tried to take a wider line in turns in which my car really plowed, but, the wider, plow free line, was a little slower than just waiting on the plow and taking a tighter line.
For a parking lot course, this one was really easy to "read" since it was about 30 seconds SHORTER than the usual courses we ran at HPR. In addition, there was only one slalom versus the usual 3 to remember which side to enter from. Usually parking lot courses are very difficult to run since all you see is a sea of orange cones all over the creation!
My brother had 3 bad runs and finally had a pretty decent one on his last run with a 37 and change. If not for a mis-shift, probably would have gotten into the 36's.
Although I probably won't do it, I would be really curious to see what my car would do with the R-compound tires all the fast stock guys are running...supposedly, I would take off maybe 2 to 4 seconds off of my all-seasons...
My brother took some video that I'll be posting up soon.
After searching around since this past April, when Hawaii Raceway Park closed, the Autocross scene is up and running again at Aloha Stadium. Just in the nick of time too since I started to get some withdrawal symptoms over the last 4 or 5 months.
Since everyone else too, had withdrawal symptoms, the field quickly filled up to the 100 car maximum. As of race morning, there were probably only about 12 open spots left for people who didn't pre-register...and I think some who showed up looking for open spots left disappointed. Probably the largest field since I started racing earlier this year.
In my class, D Stock, there were 6 cars with the following results:
Mark P. Acura Integra 36.013
Dan C. BMW 325is 38.639
Tim M. Lexus IS350 39.068
Steven S. BMW 325it 39.543
Nevan B. Integra TypeR 40.087
Nicole W. BMW 325 49.83
I was pretty happy with my result as (excuses coming up) I was the only one running on all-season treads, and my car (wagon) has the lowest power to weight ratio of all the D stockers plus it's an automatic.
I ran really consistently with 4 runs in the 39 second range except for one run with a cone time penalty. For me, the challenge was in deciding the line to take in the 2 decreasing radius turns since the course was set up very wide and you could take whatever line you wanted. In my case, I tried to take a wider line in turns in which my car really plowed, but, the wider, plow free line, was a little slower than just waiting on the plow and taking a tighter line.
For a parking lot course, this one was really easy to "read" since it was about 30 seconds SHORTER than the usual courses we ran at HPR. In addition, there was only one slalom versus the usual 3 to remember which side to enter from. Usually parking lot courses are very difficult to run since all you see is a sea of orange cones all over the creation!
My brother had 3 bad runs and finally had a pretty decent one on his last run with a 37 and change. If not for a mis-shift, probably would have gotten into the 36's.
Although I probably won't do it, I would be really curious to see what my car would do with the R-compound tires all the fast stock guys are running...supposedly, I would take off maybe 2 to 4 seconds off of my all-seasons...
My brother took some video that I'll be posting up soon.
posted by dancedream2002 @ 9:32 PM
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