would love to, but not in the s haha. every once in a while, though, i take it through some flat dirt backroads and bust some wrc-style cornering at 7mph

 

Hankook Ventus RS-3's kinda suck in the dirt, lol

 

I don't get it... I'd buy a pickup truck. Driving a car in dirt is lame. Jumping a truck is rad!

-Rob

 

I don't know, that looks pretty rad too!

 

Ive been toying around with the idea of picking up an old impreza beater for a winter car/rallycross vehicle it looks like a lot of fun but everytime I start to budget for it I start thinking of what I could do with the S2000 with that money and I dont do it.

 

As a participant early on with my son in his Tacoma pickup, I'd have to agree with the rules the preclude the use of high roll center vehicles. Karl Scheible (http://www.rallyracingnews.com/teams/bio-kscheible.html - remember the New Beetle he ran and the VW TV spots featuring him?) is a local driver and came out with the Beetle. My son just had to beat his time and ended up doing a slow roll when the truck kinda "tripped" on a rut in the turn at the finish.

Get that beater Impreza...

 

I did it a couple of times in my old Celica All-Trac (AWD Celica). It's a lot of fun, but brutal on the car. I won't be doing it again in any car I own.

 

Jeff, it really does depend on the site. I wouldn't want a pickup truck to run at Bruce Perry's place with FLR because of the elevation changes and general roughness of the track. But this dirt track with CNY region was damn smooth, not the car destroyer we're used to. There was a pair of guys in a Tacoma who run all the time with NER, and they're the safety guys! I think overall the rallyx experience depends on the site, some regions have sites that are smooth dirt lots and it's more of an autox on dirt that doesn't beat the living crap out of your car, and others (like ours) have rough sites that are challenging and lots of fun but very very rough on cars.

Still trying to find someone with snow tires or at least all-seasons for the next event that I can borrow...