Anyone know the standard spacing for cones..

[Blackdimonds]

in a Road and Track or Car and Driver slalom test? I would like to incorporate some of the "standard" road test features in next weekends IRPCA autocross. I can't seem to find any data on spacing for slaloms and quick lane change features.

Can someone direct me to an online source for this info?

Thanks,

[Slider79SC]

you might try contacting on of the guys from www.rmsolo.org. I would think that they could help you out.

[Randy W]

Try 15 paces between cones for your slalom and about 7 paces between gates.

[Blackdimonds]

Thanks Randy,

My first guess was 50 ft, and that would be about 15 paces.

[David]

Road & Track uses a 700 ft slalom with 8 cones for 100 ft spacing. I've found most autocross slaloms to be about 16 to 20 paces for spacing of 50 to 60 ft.

[HarryD]

Originally posted by Randy W
Try 15 paces between cones for your slalom and about 7 paces between gates.

15 Paces!!!!!!

We use 25-30 and still see cars spinning out. That close and you are crawling!

Need some ideas? Try these.

http://members.rennlist.com/chuxter/AdHocCourses.html

[Randy W]

Maybe they are spinning out because they are traveling too fast - try a shorter spacing and see what happens. Of course cones never caused a car to spin, the driver does that. Most national level autocrosses are between 14 and 20 paces in the slaloms.

[HarryD]

Originally posted by Randy W
Maybe they are spinning out because they are traveling too fast - try a shorter spacing and see what happens. Of course cones never caused a car to spin, the driver does that. Most national level autocrosses are between 14 and 20 paces in the slaloms.

I'll forward this info to our Autocross chair.

Thanks.

[Randy W]

Harry, send them to this website. It is probably the best one on autocross course design by Roger Johnson, a designer of SCCA Solo 2 Nationals courses. His favorite autocross spacing is about 65 feet for straight line slaloms.

http://www.ghg.net/cmjfsl/

[J P Stein]

Harry:
The last SCCA Ax you ran has 22 paces twixt the cones and it wasn't straight. It was a "slow ya down" slalom.

We usually make em 30 at the ORPCA jobbies.

14? yuck.

Hey, Randy, I hear some of our local OR guys came up to play at
The Bremerton PNWR. Hope you guys didn't whupp on em' too bad.

[Blackdimonds]

Thanks for that link Randy. That is a great resource for any autox chair! I will forward it to the next autocross chair here in our region.

I was tossed into the job last year, and have had very few complaints to date. I have to deal with small lots most the time, so I have to come up with some weird stuff. I have a fair sized lot for this coming weekend and wanted to do something with a "car magazine test" feel to it. A nice skid pad type thing, lane change area, and a good slalom. That link helped give me some great ideas.

Thanks again,

[HarryD]

Originally posted by J P Stein
Harry:
The last SCCA Ax you ran has 22 paces twixt the cones and it wasn't straight. It was a "slow ya down" slalom.

We usually make em 30 at the ORPCA jobbies.

14? yuck.

Hey, Randy, I hear some of our local OR guys came up to play at
The Bremerton PNWR. Hope you guys didn't whupp on em' too bad.

JP,

I thought ours were typically 30 and SCCA seemed a tad closer.

14, that's for stop n go drivin'.

Yuck.. My feelings exactly. Slalom to slow down!!!! Naw.. Pour onthe horsies.