Black Ice AutoX
Black Ice AutoX 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!
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.
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. Not my car, but a pretty good autoX clip, it's a '68 Firebird:
http://www.racehome.com/downloaddir/...ad-clip-sm.mpg
http://www.racehome.com/downloaddir/...ad-clip-sm.mpg
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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.
Tommy
Yeah I think we need to find a way to get some weight off the nose of these Fbodies. My battery is going to either get replaced by a lightweight bat or get moved to the trunk.
Originally Posted by TaTommyWS6
Don't feel bad. A 90hp Civic kicked all our asses at my first AutoX event!!!
Tommy
Tommy
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.
