doing my first autocross tomorrow

[jpsimon]

the past 2 times ive gone, i just took pics. Now I have some cash so I'm gunna do it tomorrow. im excited!!!! anyone else autoxing tomorrow in whatever state you are in?

[audispeed]

posted the same thing in the b5 forum. racing in my first up in CT, in Bristol. should be a fun time. good luck.

[Quattrophile]

Not going tomorrow, but I did do my first autocross last Saturday. It was such a blast. I got so hooked that I actually bought an extra set of wheels to thrash around in cuz autocrossing totally jacks up your tires. Make sure you have at least 40 psi's in your tires cold and keep checking your tires after each run to make sure it doesnt shoot up too much. Have fun dude!

[jpsimon]

Originally posted by audispeed
posted the same thing in the b5 forum. racing in my first up in CT, in Bristol. should be a fun time. good luck.

hey im going to bristol too!! im driving up in my car... following my friend in his black sti.

ill have my black wheels on. my name is jonah btw.

[jpsimon]

Originally posted by Quattrophile
Not going tomorrow, but I did do my first autocross last Saturday. It was such a blast. I got so hooked that I actually bought an extra set of wheels to thrash around in cuz autocrossing totally jacks up your tires. Make sure you have at least 40 psi's in your tires cold and keep checking your tires after each run to make sure it doesnt shoot up too much. Have fun dude!

yeah ill be running 40psi front, 42 rear

[quattro30v]

try putting less on the rear for oversteer


good luck

Originally posted by jpsimon
yeah ill be running 40psi front, 42 rear

[audispeed]

Originally posted by jpsimon
hey im going to bristol too!! im driving up in my car... following my friend in his black sti.

ill have my black wheels on. my name is jonah btw.

Nice, I will see you there then. I will be in a silver b5 with audizine stickers, you can see it in my sig, and my friend will have a black b6. I went the other route and put 40 in front and 38 in back. That was just kind of a guess though. I will see how it works tomorow. I'm gonna be getting there probably around 8:15 or so, I will see you then.

Dan

[jpsimon]

oh hm you are getting there at 815? we were gunna be leaving my friends house at 8 to get there around 845. think that is pushing it? should we get there closer to 8?

[audispeed]

Originally posted by jpsimon
oh hm you are getting there at 815? we were gunna be leaving my friends house at 8 to get there around 845. think that is pushing it? should we get there closer to 8?

from what i understand, they are happier if you get there early and then help out with stuff. so i figure since its my first time, i might as well get there on the early side. you would probably be fine at 8:30.

[jpsimon]

is this your first time ever doing an autox or just your first at bristol?

another question, i went to one in waterbury and they had helmets for people to use if you didn't have one.. will they have that here do you know?

[audispeed]

Originally posted by jpsimon
is this your first time ever doing an autox or just your first at bristol?

another question, i went to one in waterbury and they had helmets for people to use if you didn't have one.. will they have that here do you know?

my fisrt time, but my buddy is a pretty hard core autocross person and he is where i get my information from. so i just listen to what he says and dont ask questions . As far as helmets, i got the impression from the website that they might have them. But i am planning on borrowing my buddies just in case they dont.

[jpsimon]

yeah ill just borrow my friends if i can, his is sweet.

[audispeed]

sounds good, i will look for you tommorow morning.

[jpsimon]

mcdonalds will call my name on the way there.

ill be on the lookout for the audi!

[jpsimon]

what's your name btw?

[audispeed]

Originally posted by jpsimon
what's your name btw?

Im Dan, sorry about that. I'm bringing a thing of Mrs Fields cookies (only wrapped food i could find in my house). I may have to stop somewhere in the morning too .

[jpsimon]

coffee... coffee will be my best friend when i wake up

[jpsimon]

where are you coming from? how long does it take you to get to bristol

[Ryan S.]

Originally posted by quattro30v
try putting less on the rear for oversteer


good luck

wouldnt that cause understeer?

[jpsimon]

thats what i would think

[jpsimon]

my car understeers like a mofo as it is already. need a rear sway bar

[Saturnine]

How was it Jonah?

[jpsimon]

amazing, i had so much fun. 122 cars raced in total.. 15 in my class.... dan (the a4 dude from here) was in my class, hes a cool dude. It took me a while to get rid of my bad habbits (like riding the clutch and keeping a hand on the shifter like i do in normal driving because i downshift to slow down usually... but at this course you stayed in 3rd.. and would downshift into 2nd once. throughout the whole thing... so that was my main problem.

but all in all i did better and better each time (my springs have killed my stock shocks after 20k miles... and the stock wrx tires are absolute crap) my best time was a 58.1xx dan in the a4's best was a 57.9 i think? or 57.8? so it was pretty close... i came in 7th... 3rd place was only a slow 57 i think.. so i wasn't tooo far off.

all in all I LOVE IT!! can't wait till the next event on the 11th!!

[Saturnine]

Scweet!! Seems like everyone is getting into the AutoXing scene these days..

[dukez]

I want to autoX and see how many cones i'll knock down. Dont they add them to your time though?

[D Piddy]

jonah, bristol's not that far from me. i might make the trip up if it's really good. do u think it would be an issue if i'm under 18? it technically is for the BMW CCA one i go to in NJ, but that one's too small and i wanna go to a more serious one like yurs appears to be. 155 cars is a lot. i'll prolly hit u up on AIM to ask u more tho

[jpsimon]

ah dude, next event is july 11.. ill be there. you should come itll be fun as hell! def come k? doesn't matter that your not 18

[jpsimon]

make sure you have a helmet though, CART doesn't provide helmets

[D Piddy]

i got a badass helmet already. it's a nice bell one, total overkill but it looks phat. wutever, i'll just give them my chalk, they're not gonna be experts on IDs. but i see no reason y i can't travel up there for the 11th. the other beauty of the helmets is that if they give me $hit, i just throw the hlmet on, pretend to be my dad or sumtin, anf then just go out there, they never kno. so either way i'll definately try and make it up there

[jpsimon]

dude you never show your id ever up here. no need to worry about that lol.


ya just fill out the little forum about what kind car yours is, then they do a tech inspection.. then you pay.. and your good to go. they give you a number and such

[D Piddy]

my car's a pig bc i'm not gettin chipped until Waterfest, but maybe i'll bring my dad's mini and tear $hit up. that thing was made for Auto-Xing. mine would just get raped, especially with the 18s on, waaaay to much unsprung weight on that beast with the Mille Miglias on

[jpsimon]

there was a mini who was owning yesterday.

def bring hte mini

[rbt]

Small but important tip for first-timers: avoid setting your e-brake after your runs!! it's 2nd nature for most of us, so it can be tough to remember. your brakes wll be very hot, so prolonged e-brake (or regular brakes) application while stopped could mess up your pad & rotor. thankfully most AutoX venues are flat and you won't need to set brakes. this tip also applies to track days at the end of each run session. I've invested in a cheap pair of wheel chocks from Wal-mart for those occasions where the ground isn't level.

[TurboTony]

How much is it and what are the requirements?
I think a nice mk3 would be nice to take upthere?
What do you guys think is a good starter car?
Thanks
Tony

[cdub]

what no pix or vid? weaksauce. c'mon jaypee you must've busted out the phatty digislr for the autoX

now here's a case of "tittywop" if ever there was one

[jpsimon]

i didn't bring my camera this time cause I was racing.


here are the pics I took from the waterbury scca autox a couple weeks ago

http://studentpages.scad.edu/~jsimon...ewlens/autox2/



oh btw, its 25 dollars to race, and you need a helmet. CART doesn't provide em.


we should have an AZ meet at the next one on july 11

[Saturnine]

Do you take all those pics in Aperture prefered mode, Jonah?

[jpsimon]

mostly

[Saturnine]

Thought so.

[audispeed]

yeah, it was a good time. got to meet jonah and a bunch of other people. me and my buddy had to hold it down for audi though, we were the only two there. i had alot of fun and did pretty well. D Piddy dont worry about your car being slow, i have a stock 2.8 with suspension and tires, so you cant have much less power then me. the course itself was .7 miles long and i was able to wind it up to redline in second and keep it there for the rest of the track. you got 5 runs for your 25 bucks. one thing i didnt realize was how much autocrossing eats up tires. it chewed up my falken's. i didnt lose all that much tread, but its just kind of chewed up. it was definitely worth it though.

I definitely could improve by being smoother on the brakes and turn in but thats next time i guess. if you are thinking about going, i would recomend it, its a pretty relaxed and nice atmosphere.

EDIT: an AZ meet at the next one would be cool. more audis need to represent.