<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (RX-7 Chris @ Mar 20 2008, 12:52 PM) [url=index.php?act=findpost&pid=34117]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div>
I'd like to try but was thinking the same thing. Also I have not figured out how to fit a helmet on in my little car.[/b]
Why do you think I drive a convertible?
It looks a lot worse than it is on the narrow angle view from my camera. You usually get a course map, and always have time to walk it several times to see how it will look. Often you have a work assignment before you run, so you also get to see other cars on the course from pretty close up. The national events tend to have more technical features which require more cones to define. Local events typically have less of the sea of cones look about them. And to top it off, at local events you can get a ride with somebody or take a navigator with you or both if you want.
It does take some getting used to, I don't know of anyone who has never gotten lost on a course. That's part of the challenge. On a road course it's the same turn every time and you can keep practicing until you get it down just right. In autocross its a different turn every time, you can walk it as much as you want, but at a national event, you run it THREE times and hope one of those is just right, and that all the other just right corners happen on the same run. Best time of the three counts.
Come out to a local event and give it a shot.
