The average person does not know what an autocross is.
I find myself calling them "competitions in parking lots involving timed
runs between cones."
Often they will reply with, "you mean like a race."
It just becomes habit to call them races, it's just too hard to spit out
that whole sentence.
If they ask, I explain it is not on the track and wheel to wheel.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Kelly [mailto:lollipop487@attbi.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 7:17 PM
To: Randy Noll; ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: new site
Let's hope also they loosen up some of the caveats:
100 cars, 150 people, 45mph (average or top speed--not clear), 45 dba at the
edge of the site (we're at 95dbA at 100 feet). And I do wish folks would
stop calling autocrosses "races." That implies wheel to wheel, which we are
not.
--Pat Kelly
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>From: Randy Noll <rnoll98@yahoo.com>
>To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: new site
>Date: Tue, Aug 6, 2002, 7:11 PM
>
> The site that I believe PCA is using is absolutely stellar, flat,
> smooth concrete. Though not overly wide, it's probably long enough to
> launch a plane (500-700 yards?) and has another strip, though slightly
> less savory, running perpendicular to it at one end. I went down to
> check it out last time I was unemployed ;)
>
> You could probably build a 2:00+ course on the two pieces, I doubt we'd
> have enough workers to cover it all. I doubt PCA is getting both
> pieces, or even all of the first. Even then it would still be a great
> site. It's only drawback is that it's long and thin, reminiscent of
> Mather but much longer and wider, and a true rectangle rather than a
> strip with fingers. The water on one side is kinda sketchy, maybe 15'
> down with only a curb and no rail, making the useable space more
> narrow.
>
> I think the other site is the lot near the museum. It's asphalt, kinda
> like the Coliseum, and about the same size, maybe a little smaller.
> There are plenty of poles, though a safe course could easily be built.
> Not nearly as nice as the concrete... *drool*
>
> Let's hope PCA gives them a good showing and they continue to warm up
> to autocross.
>
> randy
>
>
> --- "Paul S (#51 STS)" <ibisbike@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > -------------------- End Original Message
>> > --------------------
>> >
>> > PCA has the use of the area in front of the air
>> > museum alongside the
>> > seaplane lagoon.
>> > The museum is actually the original terminal for the
>> > Pan American China
>> > Clipper flights in the '30s.
>> > That's the area we used when the Navy was still
>> > there for our first two
>> > events.
>> > For our second two events we used the runway
>> > alongside the estuary.
>> >
>> > --John Kelly
>>
>> So which of those two sites is "ideal" where in a
>> perfect world we got to use it all the time. How
>> large an area are we talking about? Candlestick size
>> or more? Or something less than that?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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