Tam,
Hard to say, not being a safety steward. The cars parked on course, the poles
and workers barely out of the path of cars.... But how many rules? Probably
just the one or two about proximity to hazards/course boundaries, with several
violations each. Oh, forgot the one where if you run off at the far end you
end up going down the hill!
Second auto-x I ever attended was in a rather tight college parking lot. One
stub of curbing sort of stuck out into the course area - things didn't come
really close to it, but I couldn't swear it was what would be a "legal"
distance now. Anyway, possibly the priciest car on the course was a brand new
Supra. He couldn't keep his foot out of it, and did a big
side-to-side-to-side lurid spinout. Stopped maybe fifteen feet from this
curbing. On the curbing, maybe an additional five feet from the edge was a
student in a lawn chair, feet up, who didn't even move. When the roar of the
engine and the tire shriek suddenly stopped along with the car, practically
next to him, he said right into the moment of silence:"Mom, please send
another car!" This broke up pretty much the entire audience, with the
possible exception of the driver. Who was probably more concerned with
bladder control at that instant....
Paul T.
>From: Viet-Tam Luu <viettamluu@gmail.com>
Subject: Eek!
http://www.norcalevo.net/gallery/albums/album06/autox_runs.mov
(Video file; QuickTime required for viewing.)
Presumably not an SCCA event. How many things wrong can you find with
this autocross?<
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