My first offical race was today

I went autocross racing for the very first time today, and it was so much fun. Although it was not drag racing (which I know is a favorite for most of the people on here) it was still a lot of fun. Last night my dad decided he wanted me to go autocross racing so he made me do it today, and I am glad. He used to be very into autocross and road course racing, but sold his last Trans Am about 15 or 20 years ago and has not raced since.

So this morning my dad took the C6 Corvette and I took the very dirty eclipse and we went down to Midway Stadium where there was a race today. At first I was very intimidated because to me it looked like someone just through orange cones every which way in the parking lot and that there was no specific track. But after walking it a few times and watching about 80 cars go 4 laps each before my class was up, I felt like I just may be ready.

My first run was so much fun! Although it was not all that great, I didn’t DNF or tip over any cones so I thought it was a success. By the end of the day, after running 9 times, I shaved my time down by 7 seconds and ended with a 30.70 sec time (the fastest time of all the classes was a 25.08, at least that I saw, but it was still good for my first time and others were even slower). I was very surprised the DSM did not break considering I found it was fastest to just beat on it and stay in first gear and let my car rev up as high as it will let me.

Over all I had a lot of fun today. I still really want to try drag racing, but my car has a bit to go before it is ready for the strip. It was fun watching the Evos and STis and WRXs take the course as well. Some time I hope to take the eclipse out on a road course.

Maybe BIR someday for the road course and drag strip!?










(Sorry about the bad, blurry pictures)

[AJ]

Nice! Congrats on getting out there!

[Swifty1638]

Wish I could have made it. You'll be happy to know that I was autocrossing in the highway though, but no cones. Just cars IA sucks.

-A. Swift

[dragonforce]

That looks really fun.

[turbotalon1g]

Looks bomb, i want to do this as soon as i start working again.
Leaving it in first gear sounds scary and a lot like sweet burnouts!

[scheides]

nice work! Like the pics, looks like it was a good day for ya!

[Jana]

Congrats! I think it's awesome that you went out & did it.

[Halon]

Nice. Good job on getting out and doing it. A little something other then the typical 1/4 mile, that's awesome!!

[FattyBoomBatty]

Originally Posted by turbotalon1g

Looks bomb, i want to do this as soon as i start working again.
Leaving it in first gear sounds scary and a lot like sweet burnouts!

Burnouts are always sweet.

[niterydr]

HAHA swifty's girlfriend beat him to the real track!

Good job! Auto-x is fun.

I'm not going to lie, I had a lot of fun. I'm planning out going out and racing every weekend that i'm in town. My tires are perfect for it right now and I need new ones before winter any ways so there is no better way to use them up than racing , and once I get the injectors, fuel pump and SAFC in, I should do even better.

[Swifty1638]

hahahaha josh. STFU. Your car even running yet?

-A. Swift

[MATCHBX]

Well, if you like autocrossing, you should come out sometime and try rallycross. It's the same thing except it's on unpaved surfaces. Lots of drifting around. We have one coming up this weekend (sunday) in Arkansaw, WI.

Congrats on getting the twisty bug!!!! It is hard, sometimes, relaying the fun of the twisty tracks to some of the straightliners on the board. But that's just different strokes for different folks.

[AJ]

Originally Posted by MATCHBX

Well, if you like autocrossing, you should come out sometime and try rallycross. It's the same thing except it's on unpaved surfaces. Lots of drifting around. We have one coming up this weekend (sunday) in Arkansaw, WI.

Congrats on getting the twisty bug!!!! It is hard, sometimes, relaying the fun of the twisty tracks to some of the straightliners on the board. But that's just different strokes for different folks.

I concur, Rally is so fuck'n fun. Once we move to a house with a bigger garage I'm getting another fun car to get back into Rally with. Hell, Eric I might head out to WI this weekend just to watch and film. It's been far too long.

[MATCHBX]

Hell if you still have the little white car, bring it out and beat on it!!!

Just kidding. If you want to, you can come out with me on saturday and help set up the course. I'm eventmastering this one.

[AJ]

I'm golfing/drinking Saturday.

[Swifty1638]

it's more then 15 miles. Allan won't go that far away from the comfort of his home.

-A. Swift

[MATCHBX]

Aw hell, he used to come out and compete there with me only a few years ago.

Come on now, I know the leash is a little longer than that!!!

[2.SlowES]

I'd love to go run rally, don't wanna scratch up the paint though.

Same, i think it would be fun. But my car does not need any more imperfections in the paint.