Went to the first autocross event this season. It was a lot of fun and a big learning experience. Last season was the first time I tried it and had so much fun. I went couple of times in my previous car Infiniti M37x - it was fun but very heavy and understeery. I also tried my brothers Mk5 VW Golf on lowering springs and summer tires, that felt like a much better handling car.
But going to a small RWD car was a bit of a different experience. First run was a blur, I don't even remember anything. I was just trying to stay on course and keep the car from doing a 180. Probably because the Premacies don't have much grip even the stock engine has more than enough power to oversteer the car if your not careful with the throttle application. After I got back I took a deep breath, ran through the course in my mind again and after that my runs were more thoughtful you could say. I was trying to fix the mistakes the instructor was telling me about.
Because of the large amount of participants that day we only had 4 runs each, first 4 runs I had 47.9-47.6. And the last run I really focused on proper lines and managed to improve my time by more then a second to 46.5. Which got me to 3rd place in PAX in novice class out of 20. Pretty happy about that.
