This will be the last event that I'll be able to go to before I leave for Minnesota to visit my parents and make a little bit of money for the summer. Maybe a set of tires for autocross? ;)
The Gymkharna Star autocross was held at the same site I autocrossed at for the first time almost two years ago!
The course was really tight again. Not much choice for line. It was a who-can-get-closer-to-the-cone battle more than anything else. That was okay for me because I still need to practice getting "Nationals" close.
During the drivers meeting, I remembered why I enjoyed going to the Fort Wayne events so much. Seat time! They always give out several runs as well as $1 fun runs because there are usually only a small amount of entries that show up. Today, we had six runs!
After I ran my first run, I was told by one of the drivers in the first heat that people were struggling to get near 60 seconds. I found out first hand what he was talking about. In my first four runs, I wasn't able to break sixty seconds until the fifth and sixth runs. I thought it was too good to be true that I broke 60, thinking that maybe I hit a cone somewhere. So I went to timing as soon as I finished my last two runs and asked whether or not my last two runs were coned- unfortunately, they were still processing the results. Then while I was walking to my car to clean up and leave grid, I noticed that staff was telling everyone it was time to leave even though there were still a few more cars to make their final run. Later on, I found out that it was because one of the cars spun out and hit several of our sponsors' company cars. The car that spun out hit one car, pushed it into another, and pushed both cars into a company van. I don't think anyone was injured. But we were kicked out immediately so I never got to find out whether or not my runs were clean. So I'll have to wait a couple weeks or more because this region hasn't found someone to be their webmaster yet. I guess this was the first and last time that I would autocross at this site...
The course was really tight again. Not much choice for line. It was a who-can-get-closer-to-the-cone battle more than anything else. That was okay for me because I still need to practice getting "Nationals" close.
During the drivers meeting, I remembered why I enjoyed going to the Fort Wayne events so much. Seat time! They always give out several runs as well as $1 fun runs because there are usually only a small amount of entries that show up. Today, we had six runs!
