Autocross Alameda July 19, 2014

Attended my fourth autocross event at Alameda NAS. I think it's my fourth... is that good that I am forgetting, or does that mean my mind is going? Anyhow as usual hosted by the Golden Gate Region. I decided I like the group so much I switched my membership from Diablo to GGR recently. Anyhow, as usual a blast. The course seemed easier for me to learn and remember beforehand and during but felt a lot more difficult or technical.

Overall I did ok. What is interesting is unlike the usual wow "Wow there's a lot of orange things out there coming at me really fast", instead I am not starting to be able to think and start to imagine putting the car where I want it. That said thinking what I want to do vs. being able to actually do it are two different things! I did all but two runs (first two afternoon runs) with traction control off. I got better at easing and rolling the throttle on off and becoming smoother which was good. At this point I need to learn more about where to throttle more or less and where to put the car. I managed got have Grady come with me for a few afternoon runs and he helped me improve my times.

I had one sorta wipeout on my fourth run. I started to oversteer and tried to correct, and of course went more into the other direction...decided then "both feet in" wasn't such bad advice after all. I have two videos, that run and my last run... here are links, are the youTube versions are better than trying to embed here. I opted to try to put the go pro on the left side just for fun.

VIDEO: Run #4 with fun ummm....turning...

VIDEO: Run #10 my last run

Whee!

Morning setup time

Alfa Romeo

This Nissan GTR that showed up had four of the largest exhausts I have ever seen. I am pretty sure if God drove a car it would sound something like this did... the volume coming out of the back was pretty epic.