Management Of The Traction Circle

Pre-grid at Aloha Stadium.

I think I may finally be learning a little more about this autocrossing business.

For me, the most important points are looking far far ahead, so you never get behind the course, and, managing the traction circle and understanding how to best use it to maximize the strong and minimize the weak points of your car.

100% Lateral Acceleration!!! (Picture from Erin and Jon)

This past Sunday it started to finally gel a little better for me as I probably drove the best I ever have! It didn't hurt either, that the track was tailor made for the strong points of BMW's.

Although my car is completely stock and on all-seasons, I ran in the modified DSP class since I wanted to watch the Superbowl in the afternoon. This class has a very high PAX of 0.829, however, if I applied my regular PAX of 0.798 of D-Stock or 0.797 of STS, I would have ended up in 27th out of over 100 drivers in overall PAX. That would have placed me the highest I've ever been in PAX!!!


Evidence left on the pavement of the prior nights huge Drift Session.