My BRZ Autocrossing at Big Northwest Subaru

[mechaghost]

This is my 2nd time autocrossing ever, and 2nd time with the BRZ See the connection? BRZ brought me to the world of AutoX

The venue was Pacific Raceways in Auburn, in their parking lot with very horrendous asphalt (bumpy, different pavements, lots of crap on the lot)

The AutoX was split up into N/A motors, and Turbo. All the Subaru cars were WRX and STI except for my lone BRZ. There were probably 20 or so entries.

We each had 5 runs, I did okay with 35s, 46s , 36s ,47s , 33.3s lap times (I can only distinctly remember the 5th lap time, but all the rest are accurate minus the fractions of the seconds)

Fastest lap I saw was around 30 seconds, with most of the cars going from 32 - 34 seconds.

All the STIs and WRXs were damn loud and had a hard time going around the technical corners. Which meant a good number of them were crowd pleasers with the loud exhausts and tire screeching. My runs however were "prius" quiet as some people in the crowd muttered. Many people thought I went slow when I had a clean and fast run. They also thought I went fast when I had a tire screeching run (this was the 46 and 47 second runs where I was going balls off the wall and missed my gate)

The BRZ does however take the looks department and the crowd "oohh-ahhh" whenever I crawl up to the start box. However they do become disappointed because of the lack of drama around the corners I talked about earlier.

Performance wise the BRZ did really well with handling corners. My wheels were firmly planted on the ground and never felt that I was fighting the car. The steering told me exactly what was happening with the tires, and I was able to react accordingly. The biggest thing I need to upgrade would be my tires, because I was at their limit before the BRZ's suspension and drivetrain was at it's limit.

Here is the video of my fastest run:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mncp5tkNqdc"]BRZ Big Northwest Subaru - YouTube[/ame]

[Scooby South]

good job.....now get some incar video..so we can analyze it..

Bill

[Draco-REX]

Slow looking runs are faster. AutoX is about smoothness. Just put a louder exhaust on it to please the crowd and continue to do your thing.

[mashal]

Yes in car video does more justice , all I could see was a little silver car going around at the end there , so hard to say if you were going smooth or too slow.
Not hating just hard to judge.

[mpicher]

20 cars and only 5 runs? what's up with that? we had almost 50 at our last autoX and got 9 runs!

[mechaghost]

I have another autox coming in July 28. I'll get some in car shots! this isn't your typical autox as it is attached to a subaru event so we didn't have as much time

[Neziah]

Looks fun, I am looking forward to doing this myself!

[mechaghost]

Here are some photos of the BRZ that people took during the event. Of course the photos they post up are when I killed the cones

Also what is the best place to put the Go Pro?

[mechaghost]

Here are the results of the AutoX:

[xwd]

Any details on the car? What tires were you on? Is your car an auto or a manual?

[mechaghost]

I am on the OEM tires, with motegi mr125 wheels 17x7.5. I'm on auto, trac off

[xwd]

Ah yeah, autocross with no traction control on stock tires is definitely going to limit some things.

You really killed that cone!

[Tainen]

I love how he beat quite a lot of WRXs and STIs times. Pretty much all of them had more aggressive aftermarket tires and tons tons tons more horsepower.

[MarkRacerX]

Congrats!! Way to go !!

Thanks for sharing,