IMHO, if you try to make absolute limits of some kind, then you need a positive way to enforce it. The only way I can think of would be to require that radar be used by a certified operator. You woul
Well how course speed is determined can be done in a variety of ways. A neat thing about the data loggers is that they are very accurate and show exactly where the speed took place on the track map.
Gosh, Let's stop being foolish with semantics - the course design violated the rule. Cornering speeds were faster than 45 mph. The course was therefore illegal and protestable. But how rare is this?
One could also argue that you are ALWAYS turning during an autocross ... therefore this guideline contradicts the mid to low 60's guideline. Well if you look at the URL I posted before, it shows edge
With Danny Shields' recent articles about this and several postings touching on this subject along with high speeds being obtained by high performance stock cars (like SS), it is now high time to pro
Very good question Mark. I don't have scientific data on this, but in my experience, a 75' wide slalom would produce 60mph slalom. This is very common at ProSolo's. I'm thinking 45mph would require s
Great point on insurance. I looked at a Lotus Elise autotest event video and was surprised at the layout and speeds. I posted about the matter and attendees explained that the insurance has all sorts
IMHO if the insurance companies are/get too concerned about our events (unlikely if we police ourselves, they are only concerned about claims and payouts, not measuring how fast we are going) they ha
So if we take out "R" tires and go to a "Street Tire" and keep the ST classes, we got a ??? Mess? I think the whole deal need to be rethought out. Not just the tires. The ST classes came about partia
LOL well I don't have data from that many tours, that was my first NT event and was WAY FASTER than any local stuff I'd done before. I also have data from Devon, which was slower. But still way over
So maybe ST is the problem, not R tires in Stock. Or the semantics. A Stock R, B Stock R, C Stock R, etc. come out of the current Stock classes. St can use A Stock, B Stock, C Stock, etc. Backs up my
I must have been napping and missed this. Which tire or tires is currently on the Street Touring exclusion list? I think it might be the Pirelli pzero corsa. They are a 60 treadwear r-compound. But O
It is also important to know that there are both steady state limits and dynamic peak metrics that are used to characterize max lateral acceleration and they are very different. A high performance ve
Have you ever tried to quickly explain to a layperson that autocross is very, very safe compared to other forms of Motorsport? Are any actual, credible statistics available? Especially compared to ot
I have some acoustics experience. Noise can be a tricky and emotional subject and tends to be measured in an overly simple manner. "A weighting" passes the frequencies above about 1000 Hz without cha
I think that Fort Dix in central New Jersey was used for many autcrosses and may still be used for such, I dunno. Maybe someone can chime in with some recent info and perhaps some contacts and commen