from autox to track?
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I stick by my comment of it helping.
While the skills sets have some differences they are kissing cousins.
Probably the best transistion of skills is simply knowing how the car reacts in different situations and how to control it.
Autocross is more abrupt than road, but same basic skills set. Of course Autocrosses have never had to learn how to play nice with other cars on the track, they are selfish!
As I've always said, Autocross is something you do because you don't have a track available at the time.
While the skills sets have some differences they are kissing cousins.
Probably the best transistion of skills is simply knowing how the car reacts in different situations and how to control it.
Autocross is more abrupt than road, but same basic skills set. Of course Autocrosses have never had to learn how to play nice with other cars on the track, they are selfish!
As I've always said, Autocross is something you do because you don't have a track available at the time.
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Originally Posted by Wildncrazy,Jan 26 2007, 06:54 PM
As I've always said, Autocross is something you do because you don't have a track available at the time.
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Originally Posted by jzr,Jan 26 2007, 10:35 PM
Or when you want to go 10/10ths without the risk of wadding your car up...
Someone needs to dig up that post where a bunch of s2ki-ers, including famed Pyramid of Speed author Doug Hayashi, rented a bunch of Radicals for timed lapping, and promptly got mauled by jzr and James Gunn-Wilkinson (both autocrossers).
Not saying autocrossing is better than tracking (or road racing), but the opposite is no more true, and skills learned in one discipline apply to some extent to the others.
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Originally Posted by JackOlsen,Jan 27 2007, 12:07 AM
In my experiencing, autocrossers have a few habits they have to 'un-learn' for track driving. But there are more things that carry over and help them than ones that hurt.
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Originally Posted by andy g,Jan 19 2007, 04:45 PM
The few times I have been to no problem the crowd has been um not realy my style, maybe you know what I mean? However I did not know that the track was open other than for drift events and such. Is there a local club that will host a track day? none of the scca regions in LA have information about track days at noproblem. thanks I'll see what I can find out.
No SCCA Region currently sanctions racing at NPR. Grand Bayou is a great series at runs there: there is a race there tomorrow (sunday 1/28/07). Gates open at 8am, $10 gets you in.
Private track rentals happen all the time at NPR: there was one yesterday by a Cenla Member with an Improved Touring Porsche. I got onto NPR three times last year by private rental. I also got onto EVOC's full track twice: I like that track more.
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[QUOTE=PedalFaster,Jan 27 2007, 08:45 AM] ...or if you want to actually compete against others instead of saying you were going faster.
Someone needs to dig up that post where a bunch of s2ki-ers, including famed Pyramid of Speed author Doug Hayashi, rented a bunch of Radicals for timed lapping, and promptly got mauled by jzr and James Gunn-Wilkinson (both autocrossers).
Someone needs to dig up that post where a bunch of s2ki-ers, including famed Pyramid of Speed author Doug Hayashi, rented a bunch of Radicals for timed lapping, and promptly got mauled by jzr and James Gunn-Wilkinson (both autocrossers).