2010 MAC/Met Council Autocross Schedule
 

2010 MAC (Minnesota Autosports Council) and Met Council Event Schedule
Signup for all events can be found here: http://myautoevents.com/pls/mae/frmC...?psCLUB_ID=103

APRIL 24 - NOVICE DRIVER'S SCHOOL CLASSROOM, DUNWOODY
APRIL 25 - NOVICE DRIVER'S SCHOOL, MIDWAY STADIUM
MAY 8 - AUTOCROSS - MOWOG 1, VALLEYFAIR (Tentative)
MAY 9 - AUTOCROSS - MOWOG 2, VALLEYFAIR (Tentative)
MAY 16 - TEST & TUNE, DCTC (MAC members only)
MAY 22 - TEEN DRIVING SCHOOL, DCTC (Tentative)
JUNE 5 - NOVICE DRIVER'S SCHOOL CLASSROOM, DUNWOODY
JUNE 6 - NOVICE DRIVER'S SCHOOL, MIDWAY STADIUM
JUNE 13 - AUTOCROSS - MOWOG 3, DCTC
JUNE 26 - INTERMEDIATE DRIVER'S SCHOOL, CVTC Truck Range(Tentative)
JUNE 27 - CVSCC AUTOCROSS, CVTC (Tentative)
JULY 18 - AUTOCROSS - MOWOG 4, DCTC
JULY 25 - AUTOCROSS - MOWOG 5, MIDWAY STADIUM
AUG 1 - COM AUTOCROSS, DCTC
AUG 7 - SOLOPRO COMP SCHOOL, CVTC (Tentative)
AUG 8 - TEST & TUNE, DCTC (MAC members only)
AUG 22 - AUTOCROSS - MOWOG 6, DCTC
SEPT 12 - COM AUTOCROSS, DCTC
SEPT 19 - CVSCC AUTOCROSS, CVTC (Tentative)
OCT 9 - AUTOCROSS - MOWOG 7, CANTERBURY PARK
OCT 10 - AUTOCROSS - MOWOG 8, CANTERBURY PARK
OCT 17 - AUTOCROSS - MOWOG 9, MIDWAY STADIUM

CVSCC = Chippewa Valley Sports Car Club
DCTC = Dakota County Technical College (Rosemount, MN)
CVTC = Chippewa Valley Technical College (Eau Claire, WI)
COM = Corvettes of Minnesota

Mail-in registration is also offered for those unable to register and pay online.
Registration form for Novice Schools
Registration form for other MAC events

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Registration for the April novice autocross school opens tonight at midnight!

http://myautoevents.com/pls/mae/frmE...event_id=10838

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man, I'm pretty pumped. If everything goes well, I'd love to go Auto-X in the Galant. I think I may go to the May 1st or 2nd event :D

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Put at least 1 or 2 events on ur schedule guys and come out to see if you like it. Its always a great time!

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I'd like to get the 240 out a couple times this summer. I'll have to see about getting some vacation time.

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Do most people use tape for their numbers? If I wanted to pick up something magnetic then where/what would you buy?

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Blue or green painters tape works excellent for a temporary solution. I bought my magnetic numbers from www.izoomgraphics.com and they are great to deal with and have a good product. Unsure where else online to use, any local sign shop should be able to help you out as well.

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Thanks Matt. If the class has to be listed then I'll wait on it.

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Yes, it must be listed. I don't know the identification for the Novice class (used to be SI for Special Interest, but that has changed) though you will for sure be in Street Modified (SM) when you leave Novice.

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IMPORTANT UPDATE:
The dates for MOWOG 1 and 2 have changed.
Valley fair gave us late info that they are repaving parts of the lot this spring, and want to give the lot some time to settle. they offered us the following weekend, May 8th and 9th, and MAC gladly accepted.

Please update your calendars accordingly.

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im signing up for the june 5th novice school at dunwoody! Others should join me!

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I'll be there.

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I'm usually there helping with the schools but I will be racing in the ChumpCar series at BIR that weekend. You guys will have a blast. If anyone signs up for the school and needs a car to drive, mine will be available.

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^even me? I would like to ride with some people that have been thru this.
Some friends were talking about that june 5th date.

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Real late notice but there are a few Novice School spots available for this weekend. Anybody that's thought about it and missed out in the past this is your opportunity!

http://www.mnautox.com/forums/showth...ce-School-Spot

http://www.mnautox.com/forums/showth...ce-School-Spot

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Hey guys, there are a few spots open or the last few AutoXs of they year. Next weekend on October 9th and 10th should be an awesome event, at a very big open site.

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Now with course map!
http://www.mnautox.com/forums/attach...6&d=1286229968
Note: Cones are not to scale, they were made big so you could see them. It makes the course look small.

The lot is ~400'x1200', this is the one of the biggest, if not the biggest open AX site in MN.

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Wish I could make this, but 3 weekends in a row up there isn't happening.

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I'm there on sunday :)

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Is this going on again this year right now? I might be interested in the CANTERBURY or midway days if anyone can do it and the dates are the same this year.

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www.mnautox.com

I raced in canterbury last weekend. I think there is one more event at Midway?

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If I get my tranny fixed and can find the long battery hold down bolt for a 1g, seems impossible to do that. I will try to make it out to midway to find out how the fwd handles.

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Anyone doing COM super sunday at dakota tech? I'm bringing my talon with the new setup... shoudl be fun. But i'm in a crazy class with cars with R-comps and such.

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That's on the 9th?

I might be down. 2x 1g's at an autoX would be the lulz

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Hey Paul, did Jeff do your alignment after you put in the active toe eliminators? He vaguely remembered doing it, but he thought it was my car.

and yes, the 9th. Wanna have a Street Modified F battle with me? :D

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Yea Jeff did the alignment.... his main alignment tool of choice was profanity :tongue:

Oh sure, why the hell not!

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did you have any issues with the toe being off due to the toe elims? Turns out the collar protrudes just a bit too much from the trailing arm for mine... with the locknut in there I couldn't get the rod end in far enough and was getting toe-out. We had to take the locknut out and mill it down so we could get a couple more turns out of the rod end :)

If i pull the trailing arms out again, i'm gonna mill the insert itself down a bit.

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COM event = be prepared to stand around for 12 hours and race for 12 minutes. Just a heads up

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isn't that how all autocrosses are?

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Well, thats slightly better than drag racing, stand around for 8 hours race for 70 seconds.

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Not test and tunes. Many times test and tunes people can get in 20-30 runs if they want. Not 6 like the COM events

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Actually, I did not. The toe was very neutral - I must have lucked out. With your eliminator and the RM rear bar, the car actually rotates when I tell it to.

Yea, that's unfortunately the case... I just was frustrated by my performance last time out so I want another crack at it.

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I'm liking how my car feels, not gonna make it to BIR this year so i'd like to do an autox. 6 runs... whatever.

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From the one COM event and one MAC event I have been to, the COM event was just run very cumbersome, lots of down time between run groups, etc. lots of wasted time. I was literally there for 13 hours and didn't even stick around to work the corners for the last few run groups. (Yes, I was that jackass)

MAC runs their events much more efficient IMO.

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ah... I just really want to run Dakota tech. Anyone run there before? Is it faster than a normal autox? The course they have there is really cool and seems to have good potential.

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DCTC is super fast compared to other auto-x's I've seen. In my old slow stock automatic wrx I was hitting 65-70 mph in the straights.

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that's awesome. I think I'll put up with the standing around.

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Yea it's like a mini road course. shame they put these orange objects everywhere to give miata's a chance...

Pic from August event:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-m...5+08.07.19.jpg

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DCTC is the most fun autocross course I've ever driven.

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I have run DCTC for the BMW driving clinics and it's like a mini road course. Running the Evo at 30psi was a mistake, 15-20psi would have been more than enough for how tight that course is.