SCCA @ Pennington Field
UPDATED: Times are in. Sorry John, you get 3rd, and no trophy for you :-(. BTW, anyone know what the “m” stands for? (Answer: SCCA Member)
The autocross today was pleasant. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t terrible either. Windy with mild temperatures. Small course — avg lap time about 40-45 seconds for most people. Me, I DNF’ed two and then got a 46 something with one penalty cone three penalty cones. So you can see why it was merely a pleasant day. Some good notes: I’ve read through the rulebook and any tires that will fit stock rims are acceptable. So I can get a set of used bottlecaps (what bimmerheads affectionately call my rims) for about 100 bucks and slap on some stickier lower profile tires (since they “fit the mounted wheel and stock bodywork”). I saw another E30 325 today and it was wearing a 10% shorter profile tire than stock and got the idea from there. It pays to read rules carefully, eh? Only problem now is that tires for the smaller profile are twice as expensive as stock sizes. Doh.
It also appears that a limited slip differential was a factory option during that time, so I’ll be able to have my cake and eat it too 
Well, next week’s another autocross. This time at Mineral Wells. I hope I look ahead more thru the turns than this time…No DNF’s please 
Oh, there were some great license plates and decals there too: A C5 Corvette sporting a MIATA with a circle and a diagonal line across it (Miatas reign supreme on the autocross), a 350Z (female driver) with Z-ENVY, a 2nd gen RX-7 with a picture of a piston crossed out (for the uninitiated, the RX models use a rotary engine that doesn’t have pistons like conventional engines), a heavily modified Ford SHO with FRK-SHO…next time I’ll actually takes some pictures.
John said,
March 22, 2004 @ 5:32pm
Good day for the Teg. 2nd place!
Julie said,
March 23, 2004 @ 8:45am
what does “DNF’ed” stand for?
Aaron said,
March 23, 2004 @ 9:52am
Did Not Finish - either skipped pylons or ran off track
Will said,
March 23, 2004 @ 1:18pm
I’m quite proud of my camera mount — it cost a whopping $5! secured with garage organizing clips, paper clips, and zip ties. Several people looked into my car to see my wonderful creation. Others had very cool camera mounts — Remember the Civic with a front license plate camera mount? I believe it ran into a cone head on . . . that should make for a fun video.
John said,
March 24, 2004 @ 9:43am
WTF!?!?
Aaron said,
March 24, 2004 @ 9:56am
That Mini Cooper was damn fast huh? Beat half the miata’s that were there. And it appears that since shihab had filled out a card last season with his type R, perhaps that’s how he got into STX as well and placing very high on the PAX even though the only type R that ran was a white one.