Very fun! Not so good for speed. At least I dried it off for the others.
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Feb. 10, 2010 8:09 p.m. Mykul New Reader
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Feb. 10, 2010 8:12 p.m. jstein77 HalfDork
Very cool, but I don't understand why half of those pictures don't show you at full opposite lock.
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Feb. 10, 2010 8:21 p.m. Marty! HalfDork
Did your camera have a smudge on the lens? I keep seeing a bunch of crap in the area of the passenger door.
Sorry, I had too
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Feb. 10, 2010 8:43 p.m. P71 SuperDork
Rain shmain, that's a DRY event for us!
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Feb. 10, 2010 8:47 p.m. Toyman01 Dork
Savannah GA last year. Not my car, but it was WET. More than one cone was knocked over by the wave off the front tires.
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Feb. 10, 2010 9:16 p.m. skruffy Dork
In reply to Toyman01:
That had to be a fun event to work.
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Feb. 10, 2010 9:24 p.m. CLNSC3 Reader
Looks like fun! Despite living in the rainy NW I have yet to autoX in the rain! I am sure I will get the opportunity at some point this season!
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Feb. 10, 2010 9:25 p.m. maroon92 UberDork
I have worked events like that before. very fun.
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Feb. 10, 2010 11:10 p.m. TJ Dork
This is from the 2008 Virginia Autocross Championships. Sea Foam normally is something that comes in a can, but in this case it was blowing onto the course from the Chesapeake bay.
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Feb. 10, 2010 11:39 p.m. oldsaw Dork
In reply to Mykul:
Ignore the pics from the "one-uppers". You had fun and the car looks great with battle scars.
Congrats!
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Feb. 11, 2010 12:32 a.m. DirtyBird222 Dork
i've noticed a lot of one upping lately on this board. fun pics, rain autocrossing is always a great time, proves who the real drivers are :)
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Feb. 11, 2010 12:50 a.m. Luke SuperDork
I've noticed more one-upping.
Looks like fun all 'round! I bet that Beetle must be a blast to slide around in the wet.
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Feb. 11, 2010 11:40 a.m. unevolved Reader
I had the pleasure of codriving a bone-stock 240SX in the rain at the last AutoX. Working was miserable, but drifting around everything at full lock was totally worth it.
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Feb. 11, 2010 11:42 a.m. bluej HalfDork
In reply to Toyman01:
well that's an intersting question.. does it count if you didn't actually make car->cone contact..
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Feb. 11, 2010 11:57 a.m. sachilles HalfDork
Running in the rain is fun. Occasional hail even more fun. Working the course during those times, not so much fun. I had the pleasure of being the last to run as hail started to come down. Needed to wear my helmet as we broke the course down to keep from getting pelted by the hail chunks. It was a fun run though, you can even hear me cackle with joy if you listen carefully. fun with hail I'm jealous of someone that gets to autocross in February, rain or not.
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Feb. 11, 2010 12:31 p.m. Matt B Reader
I don't see enough (real) beetles at autocross. Cool pics. Looks like fun.
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Feb. 11, 2010 12:39 p.m. ZOO Dork
I love autoxing in the rain. I love lapping in the rain, too.
It changes the dynamics completely.
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Feb. 11, 2010 1:06 p.m. Keith PowerDork
We had an event where it was so foggy you sometimes had trouble seeing the next gate. I'll dig some pictures up.
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Feb. 11, 2010 1:26 p.m. TJ Dork
oldsaw wrote: In reply to Mykul:
Ignore the pics from the "one-uppers". You had fun and the car looks great with battle scars.
Congrats!
Luke wrote:
I've noticed more one-upping.
I noticed it first.
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Feb. 11, 2010 1:30 p.m. GameboyRMH UltraDork
We do half our autox's in the rain by me. One time we had a dexterity in the dry season, which is bad weather for attracting spectators, so we had a water truck come and spray down the parking lot
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Feb. 11, 2010 10:16 p.m. Opus Dork
DirtyBird222 wrote:
i've noticed a lot of one upping lately on this board. fun pics, rain autocrossing is always a great time, proves who the real drivers are :)
hopefully warming up for the challenge. Last year did not have too much of it and it needs more.
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Feb. 11, 2010 10:19 p.m. Opus Dork
sachilles wrote:
Running in the rain is fun. Occasional hail even more fun. Working the course during those times, not so much fun. I had the pleasure of being the last to run as hail started to come down. Needed to wear my helmet as we broke the course down to keep from getting pelted by the hail chunks. It was a fun run though, you can even hear me cackle with joy if you listen carefully. fun with hail I'm jealous of someone that gets to autocross in February, rain or not.
liked it with the gps tracking of the run. Very cool
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Feb. 12, 2010 9:38 a.m. alex Dork
TJ wrote:
oldsaw wrote: In reply to Mykul:
Ignore the pics from the "one-uppers". You had fun and the car looks great with battle scars.
Congrats!
Luke wrote:
I've noticed more one-upping.
I noticed it first.
I only like it before and after it's cool.
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Feb. 12, 2010 10:58 a.m. Gearheadotaku HalfDork
I can't stand wet events
. Sure, sliding around and playing with slip angles is fun, but you can't get a really fast time and anytime outside the car just sucks. Beetle hoonage is very cool
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Feb. 12, 2010 11:23 a.m. Mykul New Reader
I know it's not much water for some parts of the world, but when we see rain in AZ some people build arcs!
