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Originally Posted by TorontoNat
BEST.TIME.EVER
Cannot wait until next year already. Gonna buy some bridgestones and a back sway bar over the winter to prepare but man.... Never been so satisfied with a day in my life. Eye opener to say the least.
Thanks for all the great advice. Didn't get to meet as many of you as I would have liked (@frost) but the excitement is now real and I am sure there will be many opportunities in the future. I was advised that SPADA will be doing autoX courses beginign of next year before the season starts and I will be doing this 100%.
Managed to set 2 times out of 4 runs. It is exactly as @ Overdrive and others said it would be... You think you got it after the 5 walks but you get out there and face nothing but a sea of cones. Managed to set a time on the first go and improve by 7s on it the second time I made it without going offtrack so I am happy about that however the other two runs I got wayyy too excited.
Here is a pic. Cheers all |
Glad you had fun!
Piece of advice: I highly suggest NOT modding your car until you've got enough seat time to truly determine what you need. Based on what you did, I think you still have plenty of driver mod improvements to make. I know that seems like a cop out answer but you don't want to shift the platform you are learning on, until you truly know where you are heading in terms of driver development.
I highly suggest attending the SPDA two day course in the spring next year. It is EXTREMELY worth it (check out my review here:
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...27&postcount=2) and I'll likely be there as a volunteer.
Also, regarding the rules, PITL is NOT a regional or national event so do NOT use the rules we run at PITL to build an autocross car. The regionals and nationals use SCCA rules so that we can hop over to the US and compete there as well. For full rulesets on autocross, check this out:
http://www.casc.on.ca/autoslalom_rules
If you don't plan on doing any track days, then as you become a better driver, you can aim your build strictly based on those rules. Otherwise, be careful as the perfect autocross build is NOT a good track build normally.
Cheers.
Kev