Nice work Rally! It looks like you notched your first kill in the process too.

 

Good job Rally!! With these awesome Auto X time we're on our way to WORLD DOMINATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......oh wait......we're not out for that!!!!!

 

Nice job, Rally. But damn, at 30 seconds that must've been some short course.

 

Our next autocross is in San Diego and the courses there are nearly two minutes long.

 

yah i was a little dissappointed by the track to be honest. Some of the prepared race cars had times of like 28 seconds. The first autocross i went to, people were finish in the 50s .

 

It wasn't the same course was it? If it was, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

hahah not at all, totally different towns even

 

Can we join?
Raw times from our last event;
1996 Mazda Miata 46.290
Rollin 2006 Mini Cooper 46.484
2005 Mazda RX8 46.652
2006 Mustang GT 46.763
1995 Mazda Miata 46.819
1991 Toyota MR2 47.070
2000 Ford Mustang 47.387
2004 Chevrolet Corvette 47.412
1988 BMW 325 47.731
2004 Dodge Neon SRT4 48.056
My Wife 2006 Mini Cooper 48.212
1996 Mazda Miata 48.660
1991 Chevrolet Camero 48.701
1978 Austin Mini Cooper 49.121
2003 Mitsubishi EVO 49.299
1997 Chevrolet Camaro 49.399
2005 Subaru WRX 49.688
1976 Triumph Spitfire 50.234
2006 Chevrolet Corvette 50.550

The guy in the DSP BMW 325 shook his head and said “Man, I’ve got to get a MINI.”

And proof I sought to advance my own education; having a more experience driver ride with me and give me tips during a fun run:

 

wow...i LOVE the stripe you have down the middle

Very nice scores too

 

I just added you to the group!

And I agree with Rally, that stripe is very nicely done. Was that done in vinyl or paint?

 

WOW!!! REALLY??!! Where do you hold your autocrosses, on the 5?

I wish we had a site where we had that much room. Our biggest is Wendover, and even there it's VERY old broken up concrete. It's tough to be able to use all of the room you have. I give it 5 more years and we won't be able to run there anymore, unless the site owners decide to fix it all up.

 

The San Diego BMWCCA uses the West parking lot at Qualcomm stadium. That facility has a lot of room and there is some nice elevation change.
At the last event I did there I got into third twice each run and had a finish time around 114 seconds as I recall.

RE: Wendover
I remember Mark Ferguson (NAM founder) commenting on how torn up Wendover after a prosolo he did out there.

 

Yeah, that sorta stripe might make a good replacement after the "incident" with the old black stipes I had!!!!!!!!!

 

Well, looks like I'll have to make my way down to a SD event soon. Plus any chance I can get to get around Qualcomm is great, considering I'm a Chargers fan. I fly down there once a month for work, but autocrossing in anything but my Mini is just wrong. Besides, I can only do so much with a Dodge Stratus rental. Still would be fun though, especially on a 114 second course

 

Check out the San Diego BMWCCA event calendar for the upcoming autocross dates (note that they list events in both San Diego and L.A.

 

Vinyl. Based on the proportions of OctaneGuy's bonet stripes. No stripe on top of front bumper to break up the grills.

As you can see by the list in this part of Iowa it is not JustaCooper, it is JustaMINI too.
Now how many giants would we get with R-compounds . . . .

 

Just to be clear, this is only the part of the list of particpants. I was 27th of 51, 19th in PAX times.

 

Another fun autocross last weekend. The full results aren't up, and there weren't any other MINIs out there this time.

I did hit my first cones of the season, though. One on my first run, which isn't a big deal. And one on my last run, as I was trying too hard. Somehow, that last run (not counting the cone) was 1 second faster (on a 35 second course). I need to look at the video of that run to see what I did.

Of course, everyone - even the karts - got schooled in a big way by a Miata that runs in SCCA stock class which set FTD. And the 180,000 miles Saturn coupe that's all stock except for tires was way up in the results too.

 

June results!

1 - 133 David 1999 Bmw M3 Blue 71.768
2 - 7 Steve 1999 Bmw M3 Coupe Estoril Blue 74.130
3 - 697 scobib 2003 Mini Cooper Pure Silver/Black 74.289
4 - 33 Jeff 1999 Bmw M3 Blue 74.784
5 - 279 Richie 1998 Bmw M3 White 75.1730
6 - 19 William 2000 Bmw M-Coupe Estoril Blue 75.373
7 - 777 Kyle 1996 Bmw 318Ti Silver 77.251 (318Ti with an M3 repower!)
8 - 55 Kraig 1995 Bmw M3 White 79.195
9 - 840 Jordan 1998 Bmw ///M3 Black 79.570

 

Wow. Nice work in the MC! Add to that that 2nd and 3rd looks like it could have really gone either way pretty easily. Is there anything special about that 1st place E36 driver?

When I was in the Rocky Mountain Chapter of BMWCCA a few years ago, those same BMW's you were up against would have been racing against the stock/lightly mod'd MCS's, not the MC's.

 

My results are in:

Overall Results
Rank Car Class Best
1 Miata 3 :32.01
2 Kart 6 :32.47
3 Miata 5 :33.15
4 Miata 5 :33.83
5 S2000 5 :33.90
6 Mazda RX-7 2 :34.20
7 Saturn 2 :34.42
8 Miata 3 :34.69
9 Mini 1 :35.38
10 Formula Vee 6 :35.43
11 VW GTI 2 :35.52
12 Miata 3 :35.52
13 WRX 3 :35.64
14 Miata N :35.65
15 Civic N :35.84
16 Miata 2 :35.90
17 Porsche 911 4 :36.30
18 RX-7 2 :36.56
19 Corvair 1 :36.83
20 Miata 2 :37.52
21 350Z 4 :37.55
22 Miata 2 :37.67
23 Audi A4 3 :37.82
24 Camaro N :38.03
25 BMW M3 5 :38.13
26 Hyundai Accent 3 :38.36
27 Prius 1 :38.40
28 WRX N :38.69
29 Celica 1 :39.15
30 Saturn Ion N :39.25
31 Maxima 1 :39.40
32 BMW 325 N :39.81
33 RX-7 N :40.64
34 Miata N :40.80
35 Corvair N :41.41
36 Camaro N :41.57

If my last run had been clean, my 34.36 would have put me ahead of that Saturn for the first time ever.

 

I had a 73.9, too - unfortunately, one of the cones at the finish reached out and grabbed me...

The top e36 M3 had a LOT of suspension work, some power mods and a very good driver, I guess. His times were actually a bit suspect, since he beat us by ~2.5 seconds - in other words, we're wondering if he's on the up and up about his mods (we work on the honor system). If the gap is that big next event, I'm certain someone will challenge his classing. His times were comparable with the next class up - highly, highly modded M3's running r-comps.

I'm racing against e36 M3's with all kids of mods - power and suspension. Most of the M3's are running TCKline, Ground Control/Koni, GC/AR, or other really pimped out setups. My current class is 2 classes above where the stock MCS' run and one class above where heavily modded MCS' and/or stock MCS' with r-comps run...

 

Hell ya!!!!!!!! A FRIGGIN' Prius That's great!!!!......

 

From Sunday I was 26th (38.328 seconds) and my wife 28th (39.165) out of 48 in raw times on a very fast course. PAX times we were 17th and 20th. A down pour thrown in the middle kept it really interesting. My wife's last run jumped her ahead by .307 over a 2005 Chevy Cobalt in our class which earned her second place, and broke 40 seconds for her first time of the day - I was so proud. A MCS was 16th (36.497), 7th PAX.
We finished ahead of: 2003 Mitsubishi EVO, 1991 Toyoya MR2, 2005 Mazda RX8, 2002 Pontiac Firebird, 1988 BMW 325, 1995 BMW 318ti, 2004 Chevrolet Corvette, 1989 Volkswagen Golf, 2000 BMW 328i, 2004 Dodge Neon SRT4, 1979 Chevy Malibu, 1976 Triumph Spitfire, and 1995 Geo Metro.

 

I thought that looked familiar!

Good job!!! I like it!

Richard