My 09 autox season.

First off, it was a cold bitch. Im still cold and its 2 days later. Had a blast though, car worked as good as it could for what it is. Lost to an BSP prepped STi by 1.5 sec the first day, and beat the STi by a 1 sec the second day. How, I dunno, lol.

Heres whats left of my one or two day tire collection thats been building up after this weekend. These tires got us 27 45-55 second runs, not to bad for 5 throwaways. One more weekend and Ill have toasted all teh tires I have laying around that only have "one day left" on them. Im such a cheapskate, lol. The bottom 2 are Hoosiers, and one of them went to the steel cords before I caught it. The rest are Kuhmo v710's.
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Heres a few of the vids from this weekend.
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Lol, hear that axle telling me its done? I dont believe it though.
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Comments

  • chaoschaos New Wagonist
    Wish I would have made it out there, I keep saying that I will come out...but never do. Probably because I have nothing to drive currently. Looks like it was a damn good time though.
  • slick
    : )
  • shenrieshenrie Council Member
    For some reason the vids wouldnt dl at home on a stolen signal, lol. Ill try and get them up today.
    slick
    : )

    No pun intended right? :D

    Ryan, I didnt know you lurked around here. Shoulda came out, or not, lol. It was colder than a witchs tit. Next event is a month out for some reason, you should try and make it out and at least catch a ride, or you could run yourself....<<subtile hint.

    Love it when people who know how to take pix come out and share thier good snaps.
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  • chaoschaos New Wagonist
    haha I'm everywhere that you are sweetheart:)
    What day is it on? I will definitely try to make it out, and if I do not have a car by then maybe my buddy will let me use his em1.
    I have been trying to find a deal on a wagon or another four door, but I don't think I have enough posts to view the fs section on here:(
  • shenrieshenrie Council Member
    I dunno if Ill be here for the next event. Wold offered me his car at MMP for 3 20 min sessions and I cant refuse and Im not sure whent he event is after that. Ill let ya know.
  • White&amp;NerdyWhite&amp;Nerdy Senior Wagonist
    Nice! I'm jealous - our first event of the year isn't until the 24th/25th weekend. Doubt I'll have the CRX fixed by then, so the wagon may go - as a support vehicle for the Miata. (Gotta carry the R-comps somehow - not enough space in the Miata!)
  • shenrieshenrie Council Member
    Funny you shold mention that. One of the local CSP racers was jsut commenting on how it was a total pita to get r comps to the race in his miata. I told him Ill take them out for him along with both sets of mine, lol. He said me and my wagon can fack off, lol.
  • drooling while watching .....



    wagon..............4ever....................
  • shenrieshenrie Council Member
    drooling while watching .....

    There should be numorous ways to go do this in CA. You should go out and play sometime. You know youll have fun...

    Heres another vid I got downloaded. It was a chase the ass run, but thats always fun, even if its not the fastest way around the course.
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  • White&amp;NerdyWhite&amp;Nerdy Senior Wagonist
    Nice! For demonstration purposes, how did your time on your "chase the ass" run compare to your times on cleaner runs? When I first started autocrossing, I was squealing tires and sliding all over the place and having a blast. But when I watched the people who had been doing it a while, they didn't look like they were going fast at all - and yet they were many seconds faster than me. That's what taught me that there may be something to that... :)
  • shenrieshenrie Council Member
    Ya, pretty much if the tires are making noise, your not going as fast as you could be. But once youve given up some time, its pretty much a writeoff run anyway, so throwing the ass end out for the rest of the run is just a bonus. Thats when I usually try weird lines, or practice the drift a little ;) I went with zero negative camber at this race for the hell of it and Ill tell ya what, its pretty damn predictable when the assend looses traction. I think Im going to try 1 degree of negative for the next race. It was jsut a little too loose with zero.

    That run was a 50.3 (I didnt get a rerun), my fastest until my last run was a 49.9. Somehow, when the tires were the most fuct up, I squeaked out a 48.4. I couldnt tell you how. That kinda luck I will never understand, lol.
  • shenrieshenrie Council Member
    I changed the title to my 09 season. That way I dont need a new thread when I get fresh shots ;)
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    Early May. 16's on front, 15's on back. (Got 2 16" Hoosiers for cheap)
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    Vids:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W0fU_VL ... annel_page
    The main guy thats my competition in SM locally.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzpVU2tX ... annel_page


    A couple from our last event this month. First event running 16's on all four.
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    And a few vids. First one is the first run in the water before the course dried out. It was slickery :D
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rKoBDHW ... annel_page
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDxVXL-D ... annel_page
  • shenrieshenrie Council Member
    And a small teaser of our Freezeout Hillclimb.
    http://s231.photobucket.com/albums/ee18 ... ent022.flv

    This is me driving up for an example of how good the vantage point is for the guys coming out to get pix and vids this weekend our 43rd annual event. This footage is from the last corner on the big hill right above the sunroof of the crx.
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    Most hillclimbs dont have any good spots to watch from, so its kinda fun that you can see 80% of this course. Where the car goes out of view is the finish line which is 1.7 miles from the start line. Ive been going 100mph around that last corner before. Large adrenaline rush followed quickly, lol.

    Its going down this weekend, if any of you are close enough...We give 6 - 1:40+ minute runs a weekend ;)
  • Who was driving the STi? Chris or Gus? I can't beat you unless I drive Chris' car. Lolz
  • shazaamshazaam Band Wagon
    makes me smile everytime I watch the vids.

    fcuk nechropost ftl.
  • shenrieshenrie Council Member
    Hell I dunno, it was a chris in chris's STi, lol. I got ya the second day though... by a bigger margin than you got me. So Im calling the first win a fluke, hahahaha. Like them apples?

    And thanks shazaam ;)
  • dr.gtsdr.gts Band Wagon
    nice nice prepping for 2010 autox !!!
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