Off the straight and narrow

[rick@brubakerbox.com (Rick Alexander)]

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Rick Alexander
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cathy Boyko" <losinit@usa.net>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 7:46 AM
Subject: Off the straight and narrow


> Well, I left the strip and entered the world of cone crushing yesterday!
> Actually I didn't totally kill any, but this was my first try at autocross
and
> it was a blast. It was a small club event, and mainly VWs (bunnies) in
> attendance for whatever reason, and I was the only one in my class (the
only
> one honest enough to admit to modifying the car...)
>
> Anyway, I did a lot of classic first time stuff, too fast entering the
curves,
> forgot to shift till I hit the rev limit, missed gates totally (got lost)
and
> that sort of thing. I'm realizing my tire pressure was also way wrong, not
> that it would have made any differrence at all. I guess I could claim to
have
> won my class, but there was only me, and I was pathetically slower than
the
> winning time in the other classes. But I got better every run, (shaved off
20
> seconds from the first run) and one guy told me later I did fine in the
curves
> but could have been faster off the line!!! (Off the line is kind of my
normal
> mode...)
>
> Anyway, it was fun, a good relaxed event, so it was a nice way to try it
out.
> I'll do it again. It's amazing how a bunch of cones on a flat chunk of
> ashphalt can make you drive like a complete maniac. And surprising how
fast
> you have to do everything, yet it looks so easy from the sidelines, this
was a
> tight course, and just getting the wheel back around on some curves was a
> challenge for slow old me. If I had a better memory for the course, that
would
> have helped, I'm sure that comes with experience. But I wanted to try it
out,
> and I'll do it again. It was a blast, too bad it's getting near the end of
the
> season here, that was this club's last one for the year. Off to the strip
next
> weekend, poor abused car, but it seems to thrive on it.
>
> Cathy, having another total VW weekend, and enjoying every minute of it!
>
>
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