Seems many of you are still deluding your selves and refuse to accept that the
Great Microsoft Hegemony will rule every computing device and digital media
format forevermore. For that hopelessly vocal minority, here's the same
footage with a DivX video stream and MP3 audio compression:
http://www.zfilms.org/temp/JohnsFirstTime-DivX-MP3.avi
=P
-Carl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Merritt
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 10:36 AM
> To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: First Time Autocrossing
>
>
> This was my co-driver/student/car owner John Nitis's VERY
> FIRST AutoX or motorsports event of any sort, driving his
> 2002 BMW M3 SMG. He was a total rookie, besides one BMW car
> control clinic down at Marina and frequent terrorizing of the
> local wildlife on Skyline and Mt. Hamilton, so I've included
> all 7 of his runs to provide you veterans a walk (drive?)
> down memory lane on what it's like to learn on those first
> few laps. It's not light weight, 10 minutes of video is
> 35MB, roughly a 2 hour download on a 56K modem but far far
> faster with any respectable broadband connection:
>
> http://www.zfilms.org/temp/JohnsFirstTime.wmv
>
> First run, 46.x
> Simply navigating the course, trying remember the course and
> not to DNF on the slalom.
>
> Second run, 46.x
> John tries to drive "more aggressively", and ends up diving
> into every big corner too fast and whacking his first cone.
>
> Third run, 46.x
> After explaining to John that to go fast you need to be more
> aggressive on corner exit not corner entry, he drives a
> little timidly and smoothes things out considerably.
>
> Fourth run, 44.6
> After the smooth 3rd run, he starts pushing it more and
> scores his best official time of the day good for first place
> in AS-N!. (yeah, well, so he was the only one in AS-N, just
> a technicality...)
>
> Fifth run, first of 3 fun runs, 44.0
> A beautifully smooth and 'slow' feeling run and another big
> improvement.
>
> Sixth run, 42.9
> I start yelling at him to get on the throttle earlier and to
> look ahead, huge improvement.
>
> Seventh run, 42.7
> More yelling, even faster, hmmm....that seems to work well. ;-)
>
> And lastly my last and fastest fun-run in the car for reference.
>
> Thanks again all, great event, and the ability to give a
> rookie 7 almost consecutive runs REALLY made the difference
> and pumped the fun-factor up substantially.
>
> -Carl
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