Black Ice AutoX
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Well I finally participated in my first AutoX today! Unfortunately though, it wasn’t a good day for newcomers: The E-Center has been known as the “black-ice” place since they sealed the blacktop and left a slick surface. To make it worse, it rained all day even while we were racing, making it even slicker. Add to that me being new to this and having a front-engined, rear wheel drive car with 400 hp turned out to be the recipe for some nice 360 deg spin-outs! The girl that was supposed to be riding with me to give some instruction had her hair standing on end! I really didn’t care though, just wanted to have some fun. And I shaved a couple seconds off each run as I figured out what I “can and can not” ask of my car. It basically comes down to not even using the gas pedal . . . Later in the day I saw some low powered front wheel drive cars do 360’s also, so I didn’t feel bad. I came in 15th in a field of 20 cars in the street Mod Class. It seemed strange that I got beat by VW’s, Honda’s, Toyota’s, Nissans and Suburu’s, but I had a better time than every Mustang there! (although not by much) I think it’s evident that muscle car’s aren’t the best for this sport. Even so, I’m going to hit a few more events, though. The guy with the 500 hp ’68 Camaro race car on slicks bagged it after two runs and went home!
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No, unfortunatly no video
My digital camera takes pretty jerky motion shots, and I don't have a video camera. Too bad, those snap spins would have made cool vid clips. I may rig up some kind of a mount for my digital cam and try that anyway at the next event.
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Originally Posted by Cal
It seemed strange that I got beat by VW’s, Honda’s, Toyota’s, Nissans and Suburu’s, but I had a better time than every Mustang there! (although not by much) I think it’s evident that muscle car’s aren’t the best for this sport.
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Originally Posted by TaTommyWS6
Don't feel bad. A 90hp Civic kicked all our asses at my first AutoX event!!!
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It was awesome, he carried so much speed into turn 12 that even with more hp, the Ferrari couldn't hold him off on the straight.