How about try a "Non Speed Driving Skill Event", per the Solo Rule Book.
"MrPepsi(Brent Johnson)" wrote:
>
> 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
>
> ----------
> >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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