Autox sunday the 16th.

[mavisky]

Skipped the nopi finals where old Bent Valve ran a 6 and went here instead. You can read what took place on my blog.

http://mavisky.blogdrive.com/archive/4.html


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http://gallery.indystars.org/Maviskys-Junk

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Images from the day.

http://gallery.indystars.org/album13?page=1

Placed 4th in street mod. Not too bad as everyone ahead of me was running an lsd, hoosiers, or was awd and I jsut couldn't find any traction out of the corners.

 

[Greg Collier]

Kyle, your commentray was awesome and the pictures definitely set the scene. The track layout looked really quick. The auto-X's that I've run here in San Diego hardly give any chances to really get up to speed.

You look like a DSMTuners sponsorship prospect to me

Greg

 

[mavisky]

Kyle, your commentray was awesome and the pictures definitely set the scene. The track layout looked really quick. The auto-X's that I've run here in San Diego hardly give any chances to really get up to speed.

You look like a DSMTuners sponsorship prospect to me

Greg

Thanks alot Greg, means alot coming from the man who's arguably a fwd dsm road racer's Messiah. I'm hoping to jump into coilovers and the rre camber plates by next season to help the car bite on these Falken's. Then maybe a KAAZ fwd diff like yours and maybe next year jump into some Khumo/Hoosiers. I'm working on getting a few different sponsorships right now so the car may not be as clean on the exterior as it currently is, but hopefully it'll stay decent if they come through. One's through a photography company and the other is a graphic design shop. So alot of the mods will be cosmetic (which frankly the car needs as well), but will stick to stuff like a carbon hood and just re-painting some factory body parts. No huge wings/bodykits/gull wing doors or anything though. Well maybe a wing, but only if I get hitting those 150mph straightaway speeds once the car gets ready to do open track days

 

[Greg Collier]

Well maybe a wing, but only if I get hitting those 150mph straightaway speeds once the car gets ready to do open track days

I got so much sh*t from RRE when they saw my wing. Now I see John Mueller has a big- ass carbon fiber one on Kent Jordon's EVO. There's absolutely no weight in the rear end of our cars, especially when you've run the gas down to nothing. It's been a noticeable deference at high speeds for me.
I'm glad to see you're gearing up for next year... how cool is that?

 

[mavisky]

I've been hooked on road courses since I took my dad's mostly stock 98 talon out onto the winding hills of Road America at the SCCA June Run-offs. Got about 5 laps out there behind pacecars dicing it up with porsches, mustangs, and vettes. I was hooked right then and there and I've been building my car to do that since then. Of course with the turbo I got drag racing sidetracked for a bit though.

 

[D_Eclipse9916]

I guess im gonna sound stupid, how did you guys already geraing up for sponsorships (aside from greg and a few others) out of only being on the track and autocross a few times? I would love to get sponsorships, Its been almost a year of doing an autocross every other weekend but ive not even thought of trying to get a sponsorship...Anyone you guys can lead me to? Sponsorships, even slightly partial would help me a ton!!! Plus give me more of a reason to give up my weekends to work at raceways so I can get worker credits to race on Summit Point and Virginia International Raceway...

 

[mavisky]

Alot of it is just proving that it would be beneficial to spend the money with you for advertisement as opposed to some other form. The main one I'm after this year is through the Hyundai Dealership I work for. We just signed on with The Tire Rack and my racing is going to be a great way for me to promote the new partnership. This will bring in money from motosports that our dealership would've never seen otherwise. The fact that I work at the dealership is a big launching pad for the whole deal, I highly doubt someone outside of the dealership would even have a shot at it, in fact I'm still not sure if it will come through in the end.

Another one I'm working on is through a graphics shop that we work with here at the dealership. I haven't even talked to them yet about anything, but hopefully they'll go for it as well since everyone at the autox's needs numbers.

 

[Greg Collier]

Getting sponsorships can be a business in it self. It's heavy "SALES", a word that everyone runs from. You start by figuring out what you "want", "need", and finally "settle" for. Create a sales package that sells YOU and your car. Have a copy you can hardcopy to businesses and a version you can e-mail. Take some descent photographs of your car with profile and action shots (running the auto-x). Explain all the modifications you did to your car showing that you are to be taken seriously. Tell about yourself and your successes and what your short and long range goals are.
I know Toyo constantly does sponsorships for free and discounted tires. I think Falken might be starting it too in 2006. There are thousands of companies out there that can be potential sponsors and unless you're willing to make the effort to engage these people you'll never know. It's an ass busting and always depressing effort, but if you can secure just one sponsorship, however small, this gives you some credibility in finding other sponsors. Exhaust every resource you might have, contact every part manufacturer in the import industry, then start over and do it again.

The bottom line is: If you drop all of your excuses, all you can do, IS DO!

I've seen people get sponsorships that I never thought possible, it was only through their own tenacity that they succeeded......

 

[mavisky]

www.corbeau.com

They've even went so far as to make a form you can fill out and submit.