Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

Really miss the cornering lights on the Cayenne. Be cool if they made the headlight pods on the 928 rotate when you turn the wheel or use the turn signal below a certain speed so they work as cornering lights.

[GH85Carrera]

It was a fun autocross. Really tight, and with no power steering and 225 front tires it is a challenge to steer fast enough at slower speeds and tight corners. It was a bit of the shoulder workout.

There was actually one other air cooled Porsche there today. Mostly newer cars.

Most of the time I am the old geezer, and my car is the oldest. Buncha whippersnappers.

[RKDinOKC]

Instructed a Boxster driver that was a Police officer. Tried to autocross driving with his hands at 8, 4 and shuffle steering like they teach to keep from getting an arm/face broken if the airbag goes off. He had trouble both steering fast enough and steering accuracy. Told him shuffle steering was great for keeping the airbag from breaking an arm, but was not very accurate on the track. Showed him 9,3 hand position and holding the wheel with the opposite had of the direction you were turning until you had rotated the wheel more than 180° then doing hand over instead of shuffle. He scoffed saying shuffle was how they taught him in police training. After a couple of laps said it was a lot more accurate and faster. Told him for airbags on the street it's the 8 to 4 shuffle, on the track or no airbags it's 9 to 3 hand over.

[GH85Carrera]

We always do a slow speed Parade lap just to let everyone learn the course. It was not that complicated, but maybe I am jaded after 40 years of Autocrossing. We always do 4 laps for one group, 4 laps for the second group and then swap back to the first group for four more and the second group finishes it up with 4 runs. Everyone get 8 laps total.

We had one guy there yesterday that for sure needs to spend a lot of time at an autocross learning to drive. He had a nice looking Honda S2000. He said he had experience at autocross so we let him go solo on his first run. He was just driving around in random places in short order.
We had him go with an instructor for the next 3 laps. Then for the first time that I remember we had a different instructor for him for the first two laps of his second run group. He said he had it and with pointers from the corner workers he made it through the course for the first time. On his final run he forgot all the tips about how to control a car had took off. He managed to hit one of the curbs way off course that we had warned everyone about. It tore up his front spoiler a little. It did not hurt the curb.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Monday of another week. Hope that hall way was clear Glen.

[RKDinOKC]

Mertin.

Yep, Mundi. My sincerest commiserations.

[GH85Carrera]

Yep, our male dachshund is black and tan, and almost invisible in low light setting like this morning when the sun is just starting to light up the sky. He learned humans can't see him in dim light and he backs way up out of the way after he was almost punted down the hall once or twice when he was a puppy.

The commute down the hall and into the kitchen to make coffee and get my breakfast was clear. By the time I fed the dog and ate my breakfast the sun was high enough that the bedroom was easy to navigate in and out of to go kiss my wife goodby and tell her I was off to to commute down the hall.

She finally got up and out of bed at 9:15 AM this morning. It is tough to be retired.

[RKDinOKC]

Wow Glen, that Honda S2000 guy sounds a LOT like Lori Blakewell at my first autocross. She was the only one slower than I was and she kept getting lost in the course. At least I made it thru all the gates and no incidents besides accidentally turning on my wipers.

[Porsche-poor]

No fair everyone gets to play at the autocross but me.

[RKDinOKC]

Are they not autocrossing yet in your neck of the woods?

[Porsche-poor]

I can't wear a helmet so I am not allowed to play.

[Porsche-poor]

I'd file an ADA complaint but don't want to ruin it for everyone else.

[RKDinOKC]

Can't wear a helmut? Does it interfere with your extraterrestrial mind link or do you lose your GPS?

[Porsche-poor]

interferes with the BAHA hearing aide I have.

[GH85Carrera]

At my first autocross back on Feb 16th 1976 was in Dothan, Alabama. It was billed as an "Enduro Autocross" and was a blast. Each "run" was 5 laps of the course. It was at Hunt AAF which was a fantastic facility. It had 4 runways, 5,000 foot long each. And it had a HUGE helipad of flat concrete in the middle. It even had an air conditioned building with bathrooms and vending machines.

I was a typical young punk that thought I knew how to drive like a race car driver. There was a lady driving a new 1976 Corvette and she never turned hard enough to make the tires squeal. Her time was one minute faster than my first time. I was devastated. I got some really old dude who had to be almost 40 ride with me as an instructor. I took 5 minutes off of my time. I beat the lady Corvette driver by several minutes. Dang I was good after all. Until I saw some of the guys time in a Min Cooper and a Lotus Super 7.

I ended up destroying the factory crappy tires on the 914 that day. I went right to the one and only Michelin dealer in Montgomery, AL the next day and bought some XAS tires. The only ones they had to fit my car. After that set I had them special order the XAS tires. I won a several FTD trophies back then.

Corvettes and Mustangs were a total joke. A Cobra was way too rare for us to ever see. We did have one guy driving a real Porsche 904. Really. It was the prettiest car I had ever seen, but it made my 914 look big and ultra sophisticated.

By the time I moved to Oklahoma I realized autocross was best enjoyed as a relaxing fun drive. I quit caring about FTD when the crazy fast 911s started to win.

[GH85Carrera]

You can find it in Google Earth under Hunt Stagefield.

My memory from 40 years ago was a little faulty. The 4 runways are only 1/2 mile long each. Any one at the autocross could go over to one of the runways and put up some cones to block the runway entrance and claim the runway as your private playground. I would get up to 70 MPH and yank on the steering wheel hard and get the car spinning. I would just slide to a stop. The most fun was get up to 70, yank the steering wheel and do a 180 and go backwards for a while, then do a second 180 and get rolling faster again. I did that for a while and stopped to look at my ties. I had cord showing on three tires. I was real care on my drive back home. The guys at the tire shop did not want to give me a tread mileage warranty.

[svandamme]

went for a drive

[pete3799]

And I thought we had skinny roads around here. Wow.....that's almost scary.
Were all those tractors parked at a dealer or was that an active farm area?

You talk funny but you type great

[svandamme]

farm area, there were some events left and right, not sure , perhaps some kind of spring shin dig

the roads are no biggie, I can go faster then that, it's just that them silly bicyclists and what not tend to be out on sunday.. So held back

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, that is a skinny road!

No wonder the folks drive little cars there. A Ford 550 pickup would take up the entire road.