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A few days ago I posted the So, Why Do We Do It? question on some autocross forums I frequent. Here are some of the better forum posts reactions I got. See what you think: Why? Because it doesn’t matter how great a car you have, how sticky your tires are, or how [...]
It’s interesting to note the fascinating variety of cars and their owners who autocross. As they say, it takes all kinds. Although there were “only” 38 particiapants at last Sunday’s SASCA Autocross, there was still an interesting mix. First off was this mid-engined flat black car, called the Thompson Special Kairos. Somebody said it looked [...]
Last Sunday, at the SASCA autocross, there arrived a noticably bedecked (vinyl-wrapped) 2008 Honda Civic LX. It was proudly announcing being fueled by natural gas, as an NGV (natural gas vehicle). Check out the not shy graphics that gained a lot attention at the event. Kevin, a salesman at Howdy Honda, in Austin, TX, [...]
All of us tinker on our cars & other things around the house. I’m sure you’ve been in the situation working with a small, critical metal part and lost it at that needed moment of engagement. This same issue pestered Casper, while he was working up in the nether regions behind a dash of a [...]
One of this past Sunday’s SASCA autocross competitors, in the SM2 class, was Ed with his 1999 dark blue Miata. This is a very clean, well maintained car. Ed is one of the Chairs at SASCA. In the past couple of years he had run this Miata a in the stock class, pretty much straight up stock [...]
Although I have been featuring a majority of local/regional autocross-based postings here, there is a lot more out there. For now, this is what I can do, see & vicariously participate in. Once I DO get to autocrossing, I will consider it a step in the right direction to some sort of actual racing. I’m [...]
Today, thanks to the threat of rain, SASCA had a relative cool autocross. The guys & gals got in 10(!) runs apiece. It was a long & fast course with some surprising decreasing radius sweepers. Here’s a quick shot of the course map. (Please excuse the dark & low res pix this week. Other members [...]
