ETRSCCA #7 Autox

[sean]

The East Tennessee Region SCCA held its 7th regional autocross on August 13th at Adesa Auto Auction in Lenior City, TN. This is the first time I have been back to this lot since the autox school when my clutch went out. This is the nicest lot I've ran on with absolutely no light poles or islands.

There were around 90 drivers show up with around 20 of them being novices. We still managed to pull of 6 runs and be done fairly early.

The course was fairly open. It started into a sharp left into a five cone slalom. The slalom ended into a long (almost the entire width of the lot) left hand sweeper that tightened up in the end through a narrow gate. This led into a gate for a 90 degree right and straight into a long right hand sweeper. It ended with a comparatively tight left hander and through the finish.

It doesn't sound nearly as fun as it was. The course as a whole was great. Unfortunately, I did not have the usual amount of fuel in the tank and by the end of the first left hand sweeper it was starving for more on every run I made. This did force me to smoothen up my driving a little to help keep it from sloshing as much. I managed to drop time on every run as well as have it starve for a shorter time.

A new thing for this event is that I finally used my pocketlogger on all of my runs. I'm definitely going to continue running the logger at future events to gather as much data as I can.

My tires are about wore out but other than that the car felt great. I still came in third out of a four car class even with the fuel starvation. I plan to go to the next event prepared to put more pressure on the cars in front of me (WRX and Mini S).

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[Greg Collier]

It’s good to see you being consistent with your event participation.
Are you finding any extra potential that your car can give you? Sometimes
balding tires can be an asset rather then a deterrent on certain surfaces…

And yes… a bit more gas always helps!

That lot seems huge

 

[Zero Bar]

Gas is important. I ran into the same problem last year as well. I run with half a tank now, no more no less.
Looks like a nice lot and the car looks good, keep at it and you can chase down those pesky Mini's and wrx's!!

 

[sean]

It is a huge lot.
I don't think the balding is as much of an issue as the age, these are the same ones I ran on last year. Just recently my rear tire has started lifting, I like to think that I'm driving it harder.
I had slightly less than a half tank, all the other events I had right at or slightly more than half a tank. That won't happen again.
I've only missed one local regional this year due to the clutch. I hope to make it to at least one non-local regional before the end of the year...most likely Nashville or Huntsville.

Thanks for the support.