This is IMPORTANT ! Paul, the CTS-V driver I featured a week ago, mentioned he had all his children participate in a number of autocrosses. This was to allow them to better experience how their car would handle at the limit. He has seen too many young & innocent teens killed from car handling ignorance. [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Cars that don’t exist show up in the darnedest places, like autocrosses… …what AM I talking about here? Five years ago George came across a wrecked 2002 Chrysler 300M. The back end was badly damaged, but front end and powertrain were just fine. It was still an almost new car. He chose it due to [...]
The recent CBR PCA event at Harris Hill Road (H2R) brought a number of other competitors from the Corpus Christi region. There were 3 drivers (Da Boys) who traveled together as a group. They brought their modified, but still very “daily drivable” sub-compact cars; 2 Mazda Miatas & a Honda Civic. Joshua, the red 1993 [...]
Many times a solution for a problem has to be decided on and executed with vision. Craig, one of my SASCA autocross buddies, had a quandary. He autocrosses a Miata he affectionately calls the ‘Teal Turd‘. He wanted a solution to carry his autocross tires & rims without a trailer. He looked into the Tire [...]
At some of these events I attend, you get to see & experience some awesome vehicles that are definitely not for the street. They are most appropriate for the race track. David brought such a race car to Harris Hill Road (H2R). He brought his Diasio D962. It looks like a miniature Le Mans series/prototype [...]
You may be wondering if I learned something from my first autocross. Yes, I did and I applied it at the SASCA autocross on 11/9/2008, my second autocross this year. I learned what seemed like a good tire air pressure balance, front to rear, and stayed with it at this event – 46 front, 43 [...]
Why so many cryptic acronyms? Hmmm… Read below for a full disclosure. A week ago today, at the H2R DE/TT (Harris Hill Road Driver’s Education / Track Time [I think]), I was able to arrive there early enough to listen in on the drivers’ meeting. You could also call it a HPDE; that’s a High [...]






