Racing Ready

I’m about ready to attend to the SASCA autocross event tomorrow at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, TX (my town).  The thought I came up with today is: “Why do we do it?”   We spend a day, at least once a month, in the hot sun and abuse our machines (our cars) and [...]

Yesterday I got an e-mailed response from Russell (aka Rod Rat Russell) about his 1957 Chevrolet Belair 2-door I featured here a couple of days ago. Here’s what he had to say: You’re right about the chassis.  Right now it has what we call our caddy chassis.  No swaybars, and long soft springs with little [...]

John is the SPOKES Novice Coordinator.  On the morning of an autocross, after registration, he is responsible for conducting an informative course walkthrough with the novices.  John specifies what possible safety concerns there could be.  He also gives a variety of course driving strategy hints & methods of steering, looking ahead, and so on.  It [...]

What kind of cryptic title is this? It’s to describe the variety of vehicles I saw participating at the SPOKES autocross event this past Sunday. I witnessed a very aggressive, high modified Yugo.  You could see by the big tires & hearing the turbo blow- off valve during his runs to know this wasn’t your [...]

This past Sunday, while “reviewing the troops” set up in autocross grid formation, I heard this odd scraping noise.  In preparation for an autocross run, one of the competitors was doing some scraping activity on the tires in the tight confines of his car’s wheel wells.  He had the stickier R-compound tires racing slicks (thanks Henry!) [...]

Yesterday’s “Divisional In A Day” SPOKES autocross event made for some interesting contrasts.  The course ran counter-clockwise in the morning (with 3 runs each).  In the afternoon the same course was used, but run in the opposite direction (with 4 runs each).  In the morning it seemed like 1/4 of the participants DNF’d (did not [...]

Today, I am busy attending the Texas SPOKES Sports Car Club “Divisional In A Day” autocross event.  This is a single course track that will be run in a counter-clockwise direction in the morning.  In the afternoon it will be run clockwise, with only minor cone placement changes.  It should be interesting to see how [...]