FR-S at a CA Autocross
 

Someone from Toyota USA got a pre-production FR-S to a southern California autocross over the weekend. Three SCCA hotshoes got to run the car through the course...While they were not allowed to announce or publish the results for the FR-S, they had good things to say about the car:

"[All of the drivers] gave it very high praise. The car looked like a lot of fun to drive, with excellent turn in, rear end moving around and good balance." And,
"that the car was very competitive with other CS/DS stock cars on street tires. Granted, those [other] cars did not have [the same drivers], but [the other] cars had much better tires. [One of the drivers] said that it turned in better than any other stock car that he had driven."

:burnrubber:

Very, very cool.

We need the video! I bet you this was awesome! I will scour youtube...

Please do and post the video here when you find it! I'll also look myself but I'm at work (so in my free time sort of thing).

I'm dying to get into some form of racing like Autocross. I've been painfully waiting over a year to replace my Audi with the FRS just so I can do this.

I'm glad to hear that everyone really enjoyed themselves.

bneale

Images surfacing...still lookign for the video...we know it exists since there is at least one Go Pro on the car...
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-u.../frs_autox.jpg Image: Makofoto
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N...rs_autox_1.jpg
Image: Makofoto

^^ hey thats the El toro air base i live like 5 mins from there...lol I think I saw this when i was crossing that bridge in the background....crazy

Quite a bit of lean evident in that second photo...oh well, a softer setup should make the car more pleasant as a dd.

I can't wait to Cone dance it this season !!!

Another image....
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-D...rs_autox_2.jpg

All pics courtesy of Makofoto...found his videos too, posting in a minute.

Awesome find you guys. Keep the info and pics/video coming.

I love seeing this.

bneale

Doesn't look like the u2b code works for Vimeo...

Walk around (lots of wind--it is El Toro afterall)

FR-S Drive By (again, lots of wind noise)

where did you find the photos?? thanks for posting.

I knew on Friday last week that the car was going to be at the event...and a friend of the shooter posted these on a racing-centricforum. There will be in/on car videos, but that is probably Toyota property and will get put through some post work before being made public.

Additional comments from the photog:
Scion wanted us to get the word out ... so I was hoping that the Exhibition Drivers would put out the word. I heard things like "Neutral" "Linear Power" "2nd gear a bit short" ... but we were on a very long course with a number of fast sections that had a lot of folks banging their rev limiters. "C-Stock" "Shocks ... will make this car."

First hoon on US soil. Yes!