If my old truck wasnt so high off the ground and rolled like a barrel I think Id enter lol...o and a bad o2 sensor isnt any good either =[

 

Pre-registration has closed. Somewhere between 10 and 15 spots remain for anyone who shows up to the registration table on Sunday morning... first come first serve starting at 10:30am.

C'mon out and play!

Jon
ps- reminder video of a prior event, from Jimbalaya: http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1137755206

 

"Fast" 1/4 mile imports are generally not fast when turns are involved. It would be nice to actually use the anti lag tho.

 

Your "02 WRX Wagon- stock......ish" sounds perfect for turns.

Jon

 

I'm in, can't wait.

 

Not even remotely. On top of that, although autox is really not that bad, the extended period of twistie racing is horribly hard on a car.

 

I don't know anything about your car particularly but if any WRX is "stock ish" it certainly should still go, turn, and stop quite well. That's why it is one of the most popular autocross cars ever made.

Autocross is not "extended period" nor is it "twistie racing"... it's a time trial on a short and fairly low speed course. Total seat time per entry at Langley is maybe 7 minutes. How/why is that hard on a car? It's certainly easier on a car than drag racing...

(I also don't find HPDE or lapping days on roadcourses to be "horribly hard on a car" if it's well maintained and set up correctly, but that's another discussion entirely.)

Thanks,

Jon

 

My car is far from stock. It will lag horribly bad. Dogbox tranny as well. Down shifting is a chore.



So, 7 minutes of driving a car hard is not worse than driving a car hard for 10 seconds? I guess I'm referencing road course racing as I don't know too much about auto-x. But Road courses are BRUTAL on a car. Brakes, rotors, TIRES, etc... not to mention the wear and strain put on the motor for such long durations. Looks like fun tho.

What time do this actually get started? I might come out just to watch.

 

LOL, my bad. I was mistakenly thinking "stock ish" meant... ya know, bolt on stuff like wheels/tires, muffler, lowering springs, etc.

It's like ~45sec at a time with ~10min breaks in between. Especially on a 60 degree day like tomorrow, it's pretty easy on a car. Usually the worst thing people get at a Langley autoX is some minor extra tirewear due to the banking on the oval (especially stock cars on street tires w/street alignment... the stiffer the car is, and/or the more negative camber it has, the less this is an issue.)

I guess it's all relative. The one time I took the M3 drag racing I came home with a slipping clutch and some much sloppier-feeling shifter bushings... really I guess it only revealed stuff that was already close to worn out because I launched it so much and shifted it so hard in such a short period of time. Meanwhile the same car has never had a single problem during the many 20+ minute roadcourse lapping sessions or dozens of autocross runs it sees a year.

Of course any car run on a roadcourse does use more tires and brakes, but that's just part of the fun, and to me it's not "brutal" ... my M3 has 95k hard miles on the original engine, transmission, differential, driveshaft, halfshafts, steering rack, etc... none of which has ever been apart. Keep it well oiled and well cooled and any engine should last many seasons on a roadcourse... but of course the more it's tweaked, the shorter its life will be. And yeah, full-bore roadracing is pretty hard on a car, I agree. That's why I can't afford to do it.

Anyway... first car goes out at 12:30pm tomorrow... absolutely c'mon by and watch - it's free of course, just please sign the waiver at the registration table by the gate and get a wristband as soon as you arrive.

Jon

 

I'll be watching with some fiends. I know my car won't pass tech.