MNautoX Test&Tune yesterday@DCTC. Wheels got turned, yo!

[goodhart]

Originally Posted by Matt D.

For people not in the know, this was a test and tune event at DCTC for the local autocross club. You had to be a member to sign up for it and has very limited space. Two courses were set up and were individually timed. One was about 40-45 seconds long and the other was around 25 seconds long. It's a good time to do run after run, drive some different cars, let people drive your car, and overall learn to drive better.

Sounds like waaaay more fun than a stupid COM event that takes 9 hours to get in 6 runs when there are only 60 cars there....

[Matt D.]

Originally Posted by goodhart

Sounds like waaaay more fun than a stupid COM event that takes 9 hours to get in 6 runs when there are only 60 cars there....

Maybe, but it costs more (membership + event) and has no competition. Yeah, your runs are timed, but do you know how you and your car stack up against similarly prepared cars? Nope. Some people don't care for that, but a lot of us do. 6 runs is about all you'll ever get in a day of autocross competition, and frankly in a local event that is a lot when comparing our club to the other clubs across the nation, so we are spoiled.

[goodhart]

Originally Posted by Matt D.

Maybe, but it costs more (membership + event) and has no competition. Yeah, your runs are timed, but do you know how you and your car stack up against similarly prepared cars? Nope. Some people don't care for that, but a lot of us do. 6 runs is about all you'll ever get in a day of autocross competition, and frankly in a local event that is a lot when comparing our club to the other clubs across the nation, so we are spoiled.

Well, it was a horribly organized event (last week's COM Auto-X), an hour between run groups of standing around doing nothing, wondering what the hell is going on and literally no one knowing what is going on for an hour at a time is a bit rediculous. Their speaker system was hard to hear if you were more than 50' away from it, that's pretty hard to hear when there are modded cars shooting up and down the track, nearly every one of them with loud exhaust.

I am sure if the MNAuto-X guys had a monkey running the event, it was probably run better/faster/smoother than that COM event. It was a blast, don't get me wrong, but there were a few points where I felt like leaving because everything was taking entirely too damn long.