http://www.myautoevents.com/pls/mae...psrnd=.30864692517964899617137075099918329303 Any Novice autocrossers going to go to this event on April 16th Saturday April 16th - Classroom session Dunwoody College of Technology (Skogmo Room) 818 Dunwoody Boulevard Minneapolis, MN 55403-1192 9:00am - 1:00 PM Saturday April 23rd - Driving Instruction Midway Stadium 1771 Energy Park Drive Saint Paul, MN 55108-2720 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Lunch provided Cost: $50 Let me know if you want to go Evan
sounds like exactly what i need. i'll let you know tomorrow for sure, but I'm probably in. might be doing the autocross on the 17th too, depending on if i get my second set of wheels soon.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Dynapar do you go to dunwoody? <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> No I do not I will let everyone know if I can go for sure later today
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Cole If by novice they mean no clue, I'll have to get in on it. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> I would say thats what they mean. If you want to get in on it you have to sign up by April 13th.
Signed up. Also very little idea of what's going on, but I might end up doing Sunday too... still not sure about that one. We could meet at Firestone and do a caravan to Dunwoody if you want... up to you guys. Should be a learning experience regardless I think I'll wait to sign up for Sunday until I'm sure I'll have a second set of rims, maybe Thursday or so.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by AWD 101 Signed up. Also very little idea of what's going on, but I might end up doing Sunday too... still not sure about that one. We could meet at Firestone and do a caravan to Dunwoody if you want... up to you guys. Should be a learning experience regardless I think I'll wait to sign up for Sunday until I'm sure I'll have a second set of rims, maybe Thursday or so. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> I can meet up at firestone
My freind Soren and I are signed up. I'll give you a call some time justin. We are coming from south west so we will see you there
<font size="5"><font size="3"><font color="red">April 16th, meet at Firestone at 8:15am. Then we will do a little caravan down to the classroom session.</font id="red"></font id="size3"></font id="size5">
Glad to see we have a few Subie people coming to the class! Look forward to meeting you all. P.S. - Go ahed and sign up for the 17th! You can put some things into practice before doing the parking lot session the following weekend. Don't worry about your setup or your tires. Just show up and have fun!! Pat Washburn Novice School Instructor
Pat, thanks for the class, and I'm eagerly looking forward to the driving section I'm game for another caravan - it's a shorter drive next weekend.
If you're running, come find me (or get to firestone before 6:20) and we'll walk the course together... there's also a Novice walk that'll be happening, so you'll get some pointers there. Cliff notes version: 1) smooth inputs, 2) late apex, 3) slow in, fast out, 4) walk the course at _least_ 6 times. I'm shooting for 12. Othewise, talk to people who've done it before, they will give you plenty of advice to confuse you further (joking }); other than that just go have fun and don't get frustrated.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by kickin_81 OK! ...but, what's an apex? edit: nevermind. I better remember to bring my Initial D music CD. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> You want to be yellow. What time are you planning on being at ValleyFair Sunday. I am going to try to be there at 7:30
I didn't notice you guys take off, soren and I were discusing some plans. Next weekend we will probably bring a grill that we all can use, because by that will be a long day without food!. keep in touch.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by jdgrimm who has the initials of J.G? <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Some slacker on MNSubaru.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by kickin_81 OK! ...but, what's an apex? edit: nevermind. I better remember to bring my Initial D music CD. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Because your on a AWD system, sometimes its much faster to slide thru some corners at an Autocross event.
I remember taking the red line on the third turn and totally ate the outside cone. Twice! I must have dragged that cone for half the race. :I Luckily, Bikerboy and Speedemon didn't see it. )
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by kickin_81 I remember taking the red line on the third turn and totally ate the outside cone. Twice! I must have dragged that cone for half the race. :I Luckily, Bikerboy and Speedemon didn't see it. ) <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Thats where the fiering drift would of came in very handy!
i found myself using the AWD crab-walk drift on my last fun run. it felt fast but the timing system was down so i have no idea. a little bit of lift throttle to start a slide, then back on it to pull through... fun stuff
So are we going to meet at firestone sat morning. If so i think we should try to leave firestone by 7:15. He wanted use to be early since we were not able to check our cars.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Speedemon So are we going to meet at firestone sat morning. If so i think we should try to leave firestone by 7:15. He wanted use to be early since we were not able to check our cars. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> We were requested to be there at 7 am.... to do tech inspection.
Thanks to all the Subaru drivers who made it on Saturday, hope you enjoted it. Great job by all of you! Point of interest: The fastest time of the day was posted in a Subaru! See you on Sunday at Valleyfair!
I had a blast too. Too bad J. Grimm couldn't make it. The sadest thing about it all was I took a ride in someone else's NSX and realized I don't have a chance at auto-x mine without getting a whole new lo-profile seat. Guess I will just have to continue with the WRX.} Well I finaly got the pictures up. Lots going on here. http://www.eagrimm.com/>MNSUBARU/Auto-x class/
