autocross season wraput + epic video!

ok....most of you don't care anyways, but I'll post it anyways. And a couple disclaimers:

1a. Don't ask me what a "wraput" is.....all you need to know is that it is awesome. uh...

1. The video isn't really that epic, but Summit Point triple skid has some nice scenery for an autocross, plus some slickness, and Iron Maiden overdubbed makes it seem more epic, right? (yeah, lots of wind noise with the GoPro that day).

2. Not SCCA (yeah, I know that makes it inferior lol) Event/season was with the DC chapter BMWCCA, who I ran with this season in their "X2" class (one of four non-BMW classes determined largely by displacement/turbo/rotary/rcomps). This event was a 3rd place finish for me (behind a Mazdaspeed3 and an 08 STi on some 265 rubber), but won me the season points title for the class (attended 6 of the 8 events with no wins, but consistency with 4 2nd, 1 3rd, and 1 4th. Almost every car that beat me this year was an 06+ STi or a Mazdaspeed3 (well driven), so not too bad. This last event I actually was 4 seconds up on an Aston Vantage :)

Might go back to SCCA next year and run STU after I get some wider rubber...wouldn't have been competitive this year with stock suspension (until this last event) and stock-size tires, so ran with BMW club more for fun than anything else.

Car mods...bilsteins/RCE yellows/AP Stg1 (all just this event), SDRs w/RE01Rs, sways, a few other things. STU-legal except the tune, which I will take off if I run SCCA next year but it was legal for this club, so I put it on.

Also, this is Summit Point triple-skidpad, where they do drift events and karting events. You can see how slick the surface is in the vid!

Anyhow....here's the vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH3WTXBiONs

epic with GRM stickers...

the guys who beat me this event:

sweet video, Maiden makes anything epic...

Great video and congrats on the title! You ever try any karting?

Great job with the title this year! That sure looks like an awesome autox course, must be hard to lose track of where it goes. I've only done 1 autox before but on a run or two i could forget where the cones went. This looks pretty simple!

That course was a lesson in how to make a race track into a great autocross site. Kudos to your event organizers. The only thing a bit worrying was the tire wall right at the finish line. I hope nobody ate it.

In reply to jstein77:

nope, but trust me, it was in the back of my head. And the BMW guys do love to go across the line sideways and a few got the rear ends pretty damn close, lol.

That venue used to be wide-open...just a bunch of grass circles with concrete around them last year. This year they started using it for karting so they put up all the tires and bumper barriers, which really reduced the usable space on the track and the creativity you can make safe courses with. The curbing is fun, but you do have to be a bit more careful to stay in control.

Actually, we had a 911 do a full 270* spin on the last corner before the finish....came to a stop with both bumpers about 2 feet from either side tire stacks, lol.

Still not sure why Summit, with all its land, didn't also build a huge flat tarmac with no grassy knolls...specifically for autocross....because alot of locals don't like the triple skid from what I hear (especially since it's like an ice rink when wet). No...more slippery than an ice rink.