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kimbo305 posted:You Canadian guys started calling it slalom -- is that a regional term? For ARMS (Atlantic canada), slalom is the correct term. Not sure about the rest of Canada. Until recently we didn't even use scca classing. I'm not a fan, it really splinters the classes out here too much.
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kimbo305 posted:I think Solo I, Solo II, and Rallycross are the branding terms SCCA put on the events that you've described. Solo I being on a track instead of a parking lot. SCCA dumped the I & II several years ago, it's just "Solo" now. The Solo I stuff got rolled up into the road race group, I forget what they call it now, and Autocross is just Solo.
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Aug 9, 2012 05:07
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ProSolo I think.
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Beach Bum posted:ProSolo I think. ProSolo is completely different. It is run with two cars on a Christmas-tree drag race start on mirror image courses, with competitors doing multiple runs on both sides in fairly quick succession, and your best time on each side counting. Unlike regular autocross, your time starts when the light goes green, so reaction time and launch are a big factor.
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The Locator posted:ProSolo is completely different. It is run with two cars on a Christmas-tree drag race start on mirror image courses, with competitors doing multiple runs on both sides in fairly quick succession, and your best time on each side counting. Unlike regular autocross, your time starts when the light goes green, so reaction time and launch are a big factor. Solo 1 was basically time trials, and as far as I know, they still call it time trials in the Club division
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Aug 9, 2012 18:49
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Brigdh posted:Solo 1 was basically time trials, and as far as I know, they still call it time trials in the Club division They do out here in Colorado. Solo 2 is just called autocross or solo.
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Aug 15, 2012 19:46
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Home grown poo poo Local club event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b9Twyv4qHI Regional: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C5Pyueojls
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Aug 20, 2012 00:06
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Canadian national championships. Ziploc and I were there, it was excellent. Videos: Day 1, fastest run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqByKn_E8OI Day 2, fastest run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oseMf6qRtQU Day 2, last run of the event... already had a good time, so I pushed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3tZfFAoHeg
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Aug 30, 2012 01:10
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Just signed up for my 2nd autocross. So excited. Team "Too Big To Fail" will rise again!
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Aug 30, 2012 04:58
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Looks like the autocross Sunday is at half capacity, here's hoping for the 17+ runs like last years labor day. Also going to try out an innovative wind noise canceling method known as taping a piece of foam over the mic.
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kimbo305 posted:Make sure you understand the rules governing convertibles. Most guys who want to bring tires with them have a small homemade single axle trailer. Usually something big enough for a small toolbox and 4 tires. I wish I could find the picture I saw a few years ago on the S2ki forums of a guy towing a full size speedboat with his S2000. I could go on forever about how awesome the S2000 is. Instead I'll just say this. Every person I have talked to who has ever owned an S2000 has told me they regretted selling it. And roughly 25% of those people followed up that statement by saying they ended up buying themselves another one. I've had mine for almost 4 years and don't see myself selling it in the near future. Even the guy I bought it from told me he regretted selling it, hahaha.
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TrueChaos posted:Canadian national championships. Ziploc and I were there, it was excellent. Videos: Nice vids. We had 2 local guys running - a white EVO IV that sounds like it's going to explode, and a black focus driven by an old guy. Apparently in 2014 the championships will be coming back to the maritimes, I'm excited for that. The only good video I got this year was from when my radiator decided to explode. Mounting in front of the intake seems to make my car sound much better than it does in real life. https://vimeo.com/47281929
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Sep 1, 2012 18:32
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Your site is awesome, and makes me sad that we've got nothing like that to run on.
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Sep 1, 2012 19:59
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The Locator posted:Your site is awesome, and makes me sad that we've got nothing like that to run on. Unfortunately, that's only a once per year event. The rent out the summerside airport in PEI for 3 days and run the course on the concrete apron. Most of the other events are run in parking lots, or an old airstrip. This is the parking lot we've had half the events on this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a_uUwF9yDE
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Crustashio posted:Nice vids. We had 2 local guys running - a white EVO IV that sounds like it's going to explode, and a black focus driven by an old guy. Apparently in 2014 the championships will be coming back to the maritimes, I'm excited for that. Thanks! I marshaled with the old guy driving the focus - he's a really good driver. I remember that Evo, it sounded like a bat out of hell. Speaking of exploding, we had one subaru develop some serious rod knock, another subaru spun a bearing, a miata got stuck in first, and an integra GSR broke an axle, all on the test and tune day. The best part about autocross? About 6 of us helped change the axle, and the other 3 drivers found co-drives for the 2 competition days. We were talking about the next time it winds up out east, and I'm probably going to make the trip out to the maritimes when it comes back. It'd be such a nice drive out there, and it was such an amazing event.
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Sep 1, 2012 21:34
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Crustashio posted:This is the parking lot we've had half the events on this year: Reminds me of when I ran in Kalispel, MT. We had a good time, but it was similar to that where we connected various parking lots at the community college together.
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Sep 1, 2012 23:13
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So, any goons going to be at Nats this week? I'm hitting the road in the morning
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I forgot how hard it is to drive quickly of you have no or little sleep, I feel like I could have been 2 seconds quicker but couldn't keep focused. Also went into the weeds doing about 60, that was cool. Muffinpox fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Sep 3, 2012 |
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shane86 posted:So, any goons going to be at Nats this week? Good luck. I won't be there this year (actually, I haven't been since 2007). Hopefully next year.
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Thanks.. first runs are over for STX.. I got stomped.. 42nd. My Co driver and another local guy are right in front of me over less than 3 tenths. Hopefully I can make up some time and positions tomorrow morning. I'm 182 STX if anyone is watching the solo live stuff.
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shane86 posted:I'm 182 STX if anyone is watching the solo live stuff. Since I'm at my job all day, where for some strange reason they actually expect me to work while I'm there (not to mention that whole secured internet thingy), I doubt I'll see any of the Nats live.
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Shane86: You weren't at the Dixie Nats, were you?
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Nope, sadly I didn't make any tour events this year, just the central divisional.
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My Canadian Nationals vids Test Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R386yBNLNHU Day 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-rz2W4-NxQ Day 2 <- Watch this one. I pull a wicked slide at the end and go only .1 seconds slower (which means my FTD could have been better, welp) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCUhKRmZK9U Ziploc fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Sep 6, 2012 |
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Someone did some photography for the last autox and sent out the photos.  He also managed to catch me going off at somewhere around 60mph. I went into the grass and still managed to not go off course and get a DNF. Hell yea. 
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Muffinpox posted:Someone did some photography for the last autox and sent out the photos. What club do you run with around here?
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Run from today. My gopro batteries died so I only caught the run where I killed 2 cones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsCtSq0do8Q Had the rear swaybar out and it handled quite badly. Oddly enough the rear end felt quite loose instead of making the car plow.
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bladesamurai posted:What club do you run with around here? NE-SVT, BSCC, and TCUSA. I keep meaning to do BMWCCA and NER but I'm generally busy the weekends they run. Also I borrowed the Z06 again, this time I went with racing stripes:  I came in 1st (out of 2  ) in the Corvette Street Tire class and got a Corvette Club hat as a prize which I gave to the Z06 owner. During the runs we were joking about how much time I was getting from the stripes, I beat 2nd by ~4seconds so we settled on that.Also an FRS showed up and was wearing direzzas. It was running midpack times but I don't think the driver has been doing autox very long as his times were slower for that type of tire. Also it was a lesson in driver vs. car as it lost to a rental Sentra with a CVT and a very very good driver 
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I just started this year and I've been running with the BMWCCA so far but I'm eyeing the NESVT club because it's so much cheaper. Do you have a preference between the local clubs?
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bladesamurai posted:I just started this year and I've been running with the BMWCCA so far but I'm eyeing the NESVT club because it's so much cheaper. Do you have a preference between the local clubs? Not really, NE-SVT/BSCC/TCUSA all pretty much use the exact same format and are more laid back. The biggest difference between those clubs are what classes they have and that NE-SVT brings lunch which is why it is the only one with the membership fee.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlDfL7R8SuQ Annoyed that I didn't get my fastest run. It felt way faster and I wasn't trying to re-learn how to steer without power steering. Also had way more shifting as the course finally dried up to get some speed on. Oh well! Rest of the cars recorded: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH0SWxTSF_mbzTGCbN3fe60_9R5qCvqLO
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Nice, I need to relearn my downshifting technique, I like to use the side of my foot and have problems missing the gas if I downshift during cornering. Obvious solution is don't downshift while cornering but sometimes u need to drift bro. edit: This is the kind of run you ask people to delete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoXi43DC6qA
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Muffinpox posted:Nice, I need to relearn my downshifting technique, I like to use the side of my foot and have problems missing the gas if I downshift during cornering. Obvious solution is don't downshift while cornering but sometimes u need to drift bro. You might want to look at how you attack slaloms too. Your steering input seemed fairly late and quite jerky. Smooth it out, turn earlier, and go faster.
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Brigdh posted:You might want to look at how you attack slaloms too. Your steering input seemed fairly late and quite jerky. Smooth it out, turn earlier, and go faster. Is that commenting on one of my S2000 videos? I'm not driving the lotus, DNFing on the exit box is usually just embarrassing.
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Muffinpox posted:Is that commenting on one of my S2000 videos? I'm not driving the lotus, DNFing on the exit box is usually just embarrassing. Sorry, I assumed the lotus was you, although if your July 7th video is any indication, you could smooth out your steering a bit as well. The lotus driver seemed like he had set steering positions, and would jump quickly from one position to the next then hold that position for a bit. In contrast, you started out good on turning in early and smooth, but then something happened about half way though. Seemed like something threw you out of your grove and caused you to start turning in later, which seemed to make you turn more, which then ended up being too much. You then corrected quite a bit fast. Serious question, do you talk to yourself on a run?
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Brigdh posted:Sorry, I assumed the lotus was you, although if your July 7th video is any indication, you could smooth out your steering a bit as well. The lotus driver seemed like he had set steering positions, and would jump quickly from one position to the next then hold that position for a bit. In contrast, you started out good on turning in early and smooth, but then something happened about half way though. Seemed like something threw you out of your grove and caused you to start turning in later, which seemed to make you turn more, which then ended up being too much. You then corrected quite a bit fast. Yea, I let my eyes drop. I wasn't sure if you were commenting on earlier videos where I tend to slow down/speed up in slaloms and end up being late and wide vs. taking them at steady state throttle, another S2000 owner had the same critique about too much steering input unsettling the rear making me slow. I'll swear but I usually only talk if there's a passenger onboard, the camera location doesn't really show when there's someone in the car. I have a video where I'm trying to show a novice how far he should be looking ahead and if he wasn't talking you would think I was just motivationally instructing myself. Muffinpox fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Sep 18, 2012 |
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Muffinpox posted:Yea, I let my eyes drop. I wasn't sure if you were commenting on earlier videos where I tend to slow down/speed up in slaloms and end up being late and wide vs. taking them at steady state throttle, another S2000 owner had the same critique about too much steering input unsettling the rear making me slow. You might try talking to yourself, even if you are alone. I've found it helps to process what you are seeing and doing during the run and after. Things like "where is that pointer cone" during a run can help to remind you where to look, and "poo poo I was late here" will help you remember after the run what to correct.
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Brigdh posted:You might try talking to yourself, even if you are alone. I've found it helps to process what you are seeing and doing during the run and after. Things like "where is that pointer cone" during a run can help to remind you where to look, and "poo poo I was late here" will help you remember after the run what to correct. That's a good idea, I never thought about that. Especially with the longer courses we run I tend to forget where I made mistakes unless it was really big.
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I thought the S2000 had been a bit harder and more unpredictable to drive at the limit, turns out the drivers side shock is fully dead now. Anyone heard what the S2000s in B-stock run? Looking around it seems that either oem ($300/per for shocks), Koni yellows (~$170 each, can have Koni revalve to autox specs from b stock winners) or super expensive setups like Moton/Penske/ohlin.
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Second last event of the year, nice and drizzly. I kiss a cone somewhere and still almost beat my best run with the penalty. I really hate a run like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NmYj5oOsyo A working rear swaybar makes a HUGE difference. The car actually goes where I point it now. Also, is there anything funnier then someone new showing up in a "powerful" car (in this case a genesis 3.8), talking poo poo about how he's going to beat everything, and then posting the worst time of the day? I've never seen someone who has so little throttle control, it was just a toggle switch to him. He'd brake, coast through the corner and then when he got the car perfectly straight just mash the throttle. It was extra funny since he had a super loud exhaust that you could hear across both lots. Crustashio fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Oct 1, 2012 |
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