I'm out of the running in autocross for now, I didn't renew my license and autocrossing the BGT was beating it up a little, as fun as it is. I went to the event today as a spectator and really wanted to drive. It was a great course and the turn out was good but not too huge, so the pace was good. Sometimes so many people show up it looks like the infield at a Nascar event. See pics at the end of the post below.
You know, someone recently posted a thread about "haters" at race events, which made me think of trying to explain autocrossing and auto enthusiasm generally to people who aren't into it. Where I work, most people are into sports, and I am not. When they go to events they ask me if I want to go and I decline. Then comes the inevitable question. If you aren't into sports, what do you do with your time? Its as if without sports everyone who is into them wouldn't know what to do with themselves. So, I then explain I enjoy amateur motorsports and autocross and so on. I always think people then think I'm some fast and furious wannabe. Then they ask, what autocross is. I say, well, there is a roadcourse set up in a parking lot with cones and the object is to drive as fast as you can through the course without hitting any cones. Then the expression that is like, "what?". Anyway, I thought about it today at the event. It really is an exiting experience you can't fully explain to someone unless they do it, and you know if they did it it would scare the bejeezus out of them the first time like it seems to do to everyone, myself included! Oh well, here's some cool pics from today. Of particular note were a 944 n/a and a Lincoln Mk VIII. I didn't see the Mk VIII but I wish I had.
