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Old 06-08-2009, 05:24 AM
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Originally Posted by tonkovich View Post
off thread, but.. what is autocrossing. (sorry for my ignorance)

sounds kinda fun.
Check out scca website.

Its running a set course through traffic cones against the clock. There are classes for any vehicle except ones that have high centers of gravity. At an event you typically get five or six attempts which will last from forty to seventy seconds per run, with maybe twenty turns involved.

The emphasis is on precision driving and of course trying to get through it as quickly as possible without knocking over a cone. If you knock over a cone its two seconds added. If you miss a gate the run is annulled and you lose that turn.

Its the cheapest form of organized racing there is.

The great thing about it is that it gets the desire to go fast out of your system so driving fast on the street loses all its stimulation since you are getting all you want on the autocross course.
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