Got my autocross results (archive)

I attended a NASA autox at the Marina Ca. airport and had to leave early cause I was going on vacation. Well I got back a couple of days ago and just got around reading the mail. The autox results are back and I got fourth (of ten)in my class. Granted the first three beat me by at least 5 sec, heck first place was 65.503 over my 75.553.
Still I'm happy cause each one of my runs was better than the last despite my horrible driving.

After riding with Ralph Schubert in his e30 M3 (a 61.7 run, his second best of the day) I now know what he means by braking hard before the turns. His hard braking is more of a controled panic stop. Riding with him was like a really fast lap on EA's need for speed. This guy is fast. Had I stayed longer I was going to let him take my car on the course to see what he could get out of it.

The one thing I need to fix is my speed through the turn, it made the car understeer quite a bit. If I came to slow then I would have to control the oversteer. The solution would be to drive like Ralph but I am not that good and I would feel abusive to the car. I guess if I keep taking it out I will start buying track tires and pay more attention to the go fast details of the M5. I'm thinking tires should give me a couple of seconds since I was getting a bit of sidewall flex.

The cars in my class were all Camaros and Mustang 5.0's and one 300zx. The winner was a LS1 (is that right?) Camaro. Kind of makes me feel as if I was racing the grocery getter.

Oh well enough rambling

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