AutoX Tire Pressure?

[MarkR171]

Ah, oops

Odd that the SCCA folks are like that over there while they're some of the nicest people I've met over here.

[MarkR171]

Taken from another thread since I posted it in the wrong thread

Had a blast today! Was one of the most fun courses I've driven, tight and technical but still plenty of space to stretch the legs. I started with 38F 36R cold temperatures and the car felt infinitely better than my last event. It even had a tendency to oversteer slightly and I didn't have any hint of understeer today.

Today I felt once again that the only limiting factor to my times was myself.

I did raise the fronts to 39.5ish cold at the end of the day for extra fun runs and the car felt a bit better even and I cut another 7 tenths of my time off. Like I said, the car could have done better, I think it could have done another .5-1.0 second better with a perfect drive. Very satisfied with the Star Specs now.

Here's the video from today!

[Xaeryan]

Originally Posted by MarkR171

Taken from another thread since I posted it in the wrong thread

and then some jerk says "Told ya"

Originally Posted by MarkR171

Here's the video from today!

Cool, need a hair less music or more engine sound. I'm no expert, but if I were to give some advice, I'd say it looks like you can tuck in a little closer to the cones on the slaloms - but it might just be the angle of the camera. Otherwise I'm still jealous you're out there autocrossing while it's frost weather here.

[MarkR171]

Can't hear the engine with the wind noise unfortunately.... and no music for the last/fastest run. The places where I think I could have improved significantly are:

1. The loop at the end of the first slalom/straight, braking too early and could have carried more speed
2. Chicane in the middle (left, right, left)
3. Hairpin right after chicane, could have easily kept going and brake later.

Very confident I could have broken into 32s given more runs. I have a big problem with not pushing hard enough on my early runs and getting significant time improvements AFTER the 4 runs that count... I guess that's just my inexperience.

[Xaeryan]

Originally Posted by MarkR171

Very confident I could have broken into 32s given more runs. I have a big problem with not pushing hard enough on my early runs and getting significant time improvements AFTER the 4 runs that count... I guess that's just my inexperience.

That will lessen over time as you learn the car and how to attack different types of corners with it beforehand (i.e. experience). Also, do as many coursewalks as you can (something I need to do more of) to get a better starting point.

[Xaeryan]

Do you guys really only get 4 runs each event?

[MarkR171]

4 runs that count each, (roughly 130 participants, first car out at 9:30am and we normally finish around 3pm.) After 3pm we do fun runs, extra runs until clean up time. 1 passenger allowed or swap cars, etc.

With fun runs, I get 7-8 normally.

[bluesunit]

Originally Posted by MarkR171

4 runs that count each, (roughly 130 participants, first car out at 9:30am and we normally finish around 3pm.) After 3pm we do fun runs, extra runs until clean up time. 1 passenger allowed or swap cars, etc.

With fun runs, I get 7-8 normally.

Damn, we usually have 70, do 7-8 runs, and usually have no time left. Impressed with your efficiency and turnout.