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Old 07-24-2008, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by vollrathian,Jul 23 2008, 07:17 PM
i laughed while watching the video when u hit the wipers while steering fast
Me too, quite entertaining! Was that your fast run Ron?
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DUDE congrats!! That looks like so much fun!!

This is probably a noob question, but how do you not get confused on where your driving... all those cones everywhere; i wouldn't know if i was going the right way!
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I agree ^ how the frick do you know where your goin. I gotta come out and do one of these.
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Once you go out there, and walk the course and see the map ahead of time, it really does make sense after a little while... just watching the video with no idea of what the map actually looks like, it IS hard to see whats going on... but wehen you're there and actually driving it, its a lot different
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Originally Posted by KamiSpeedAdam,Jul 25 2008, 12:44 PM
DUDE congrats!! That looks like so much fun!!

This is probably a noob question, but how do you not get confused on where your driving... all those cones everywhere; i wouldn't know if i was going the right way!
Honestly that is one of the reasons i didnt autocross in the past. I went out and i can drive fairly well but couldnt find my way around the course. It really sucked at first. After attending a few you will learn your way around. The most important thing is to walk the course. I walked that couse 4 times that morning and was sweating my ass off. Well it really paid off. I didnt go off course at all. So on all my runs i could concentrate on my driving. This is honestly the most fun you can have for the money and really push the limits. Plus you really cant hurt your car
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Originally Posted by The Twanksta,Jul 24 2008, 10:18 AM
Me too, quite entertaining! Was that your fast run Ron?
No but it was a fun run getting sideways so i posted that one
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Like Ron said, you get used to it after awhile. I occasionally don't even walk the course and just do the first run a little slower. Autocross courses always have similar course elements so once you are familiar with what they normally look like you can pick them out. IMO the way this course was coned, it looked a LOT worse than it should have looked. For a first time event, brooksville can be a good one to go to since it's an old runway, you look ahead naturally, that's the hardest thing to learn, you should not be looking at the course right in front of the car, but ahead of where the car is currently at so you don't miss part of the course and go off course.
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Originally Posted by KamiSpeedAdam,Jul 25 2008, 04:44 PM
DUDE congrats!! That looks like so much fun!!

This is probably a noob question, but how do you not get confused on where your driving... all those cones everywhere; i wouldn't know if i was going the right way!
'Reading' the course is fairly easy. I also walk the track, but I find that if I break the course into different sections, I can visualize the flow better (instead of trying to remember each & every cone).
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that was so much fun,
but to get second by .001 sec
next time!!!!!!!!!!!!
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looks like I need to bring out the 8 out to play for the next one


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