Racing Ready

In some cases you see that age is only a number with autocross participants.  Who knows, maybe it could be the missing elixir for regaining youth  Take the example of Gene, who I met at the 9/28/2008 SASCA autocross.  He’s 72 years young & having a blast in his new Mini.  I did a ride-along [...]

Over the past few months I’ve been noticing this lime green 2006 Scion xB at the SASCA autocross events.  I finally talked to Will, the owner of this boxy ride that club members have nicknamed, “The Toaster”.       Will said that the SCCA will not allow the owner of this vehicle to compete [...]

At the previous weekend’s SASCA autocross, there were two competitors who brought their different Honda S2000 rides, from two extremes of the competitive spectrum. Mike has been involved in autocrossing for many years.  I believe he is pegged to be the next SASCA treasurer.  He bought his silver 2002 S2000 with a striking blood red interior, about 1.5 years [...]

Yes, you read correctly.  I have witnessed a car with an automatic transmission compete successfully in an autocross!  Not only does the driver and the car do well, he is more competitive than an equally equipped model of the same car that is manually shifted.  So, what are the facts?   I am talking about Paalo’s [...]

At today’s SPOKES autocross, 2 firsts occurred for me (at least a first time in 15 years): I attended an autocross from start to finish (like a competitor, from 8am to 4:30pm) I actually got to drive the course once through (thanks Wei for donating me one of your runs!!!) Here are pictures of Wei’s 2000 Honda Prelude [...]

  Tomorrow, SPOKES will conduct their autocross event #8.  It will be located, as is usually the case, at San Antonio Raceway, between San Antonio & Seguin, Texas. The area above described as the ’14.5 Acers (their typo) Paved Pit Parking’ is where the actual autocross course is set up and run.  Look below to [...]

Robert says he’s been autocrossing for 5 years and says he’s still a rookie.  What I think he is really saying is that he is always looking to improve and do better.  Besides improving himself, he’s been improving his car, a recent model black Corvette.   Robert is a regular at these SASCA autocrosses.  The [...]