How not to AutoX a FF

[mwizard]

Be sure to stay to the end.
A very fast course and I am still enjoying what FF's can do.
http://youtu.be/R9aZEKoajJM
Mark

[Kazis31]

And he gets a cookie......

[DanW]

Timing Lights!

[sauce_racer]

I have to laugh when he pulls the cone away from your car.

It happens to everyone. Looked like you had fun!



Meg Sauce
SowDiv FF10

[provamo]

Timing Lights!

way better than blasting the timing light battery.............................don't ask how i know

[DanW]

way better than blasting the timing light battery.............................don't ask how i know

I mentioned it, because I have pushed the finish lights off line.

[Dick R.]

I guess there is no doubt that you hit at least two cones on the slight chance the run wasn't a dnf.

Dick

[Neil_Roberts]

My record is 5 cones stuck in/under the car.

[benbeames]

I recently had a "captured" cone dislodge from the suspension as I came up to the timer and fly into the cockpit. I caught it and held it up as a trophy for hitting the most cones.

Gives new meaning to the phrase "cone dodging."

[bobmelvin]

I'm also a FF racer but on roadcourses. My question is this. On roadcourses our cars don't stick a lick until the tires come up to temperature. It would seem to me that shaved street tires would be significantly better? How is it you can run on cold slicks? Always wondered but never asked.

Thanks in advance.

Bob

[Neil_Roberts]

How is it you can run on cold slicks?

Hoosier R25B

When they are new, they are alive right off the trailer. As they get older, they have to get hotter before they come in. That is excellent training for road racers. The field always spreads out pretty quickly after the start, so those who can get the most out of cold tires will gain places while they are the easiest to get.

[BURKY]

Mark, looks like you need more goat pi$$.

[chrisw52]

I got you covered there mark... Oh yeah, the photographer who took this photo is the author of this thread...

[Barry Ott]

Great thread guys, we've all done that :-)

Reminds me of my favorite autocross line: "just nick it ..... with the license plate". for us, it's "...with the nose"

B

[george schilling]

I'm no stranger to cones either. My record is around seven.

My funniest cone story was when I was instructing my girlfriend in my Miata. On the final turn, she pushed wide and caught an outside cone with the LF tire. The cone pops into the air, bops her on the helmet and lands in the car behind the seat. I couldn't stop laughing.

I am interested in who chalked the course. We have our own Mr. Chalky in the Cal Club Region who can't come to realize that chalkers have throttles too.

[Jim Garry]

That's exactly what happened to me last Sunday in my BMod car, a sports racer. Hit a cone and it came toward the cockpit. Tilted my head to the side. Cone skimmed off my helmet and disappeared.

After the finish line and my concentration subsided, I felt something behind my neck. I reached back and pulled out the cone. It had lodged itself behind the roll hoop and my neck. I tossed it at Mark Daddio.

Wasn't until packing up at the end of the day that I noticed the mark on my helmet.

I MIGHT have it on video, if I ever get some time to check.