March 25 - Oahu SCCA Autocross
Those driving books I bought a couple of weeks ago MUST be helping...
(Photos courtesy of Jon and Erin)
This past Sunday was the Championship Runoffs for the 2006 Hawaii SCCA autocross season and the course for this race was another great course for the limited area we have in the Aloha Stadium parking lot.
BMW's are renowned for their braking and I used it to full effect on 2 of the hair pin turns on the course. In fact, as described in the Going Faster book, I tried to trail brake into these hairpins, much more than I ever did in the past, and I was surprised how much the front end squatted down and dug in to those turns!
I also learned that my car is DEFINITELY faster with the traction control FULLY disengaged. In the trade off for a higher chance of a transitional tail happy spin (did it twice that day), you get much better throttle response, especially out of the slow hairpin turns.
My best run of the day, when it counted, was 41.100 seconds. But during the fun runs, I got down to 40.037 seconds with the traction control fully off! UNBELIEVABLY, sans traction control I got over 1 second faster...and all this time I've been running with the traction control only in the semi-off posisiton...
Result: D - Stock 1st Place, for the first time! Guess my tires aren't holding me back as much as I thought!
Overall Results: http://sccahawaii.org/3-25-07.pdf
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(Photos courtesy of Jon and Erin)
This past Sunday was the Championship Runoffs for the 2006 Hawaii SCCA autocross season and the course for this race was another great course for the limited area we have in the Aloha Stadium parking lot.
BMW's are renowned for their braking and I used it to full effect on 2 of the hair pin turns on the course. In fact, as described in the Going Faster book, I tried to trail brake into these hairpins, much more than I ever did in the past, and I was surprised how much the front end squatted down and dug in to those turns!
I also learned that my car is DEFINITELY faster with the traction control FULLY disengaged. In the trade off for a higher chance of a transitional tail happy spin (did it twice that day), you get much better throttle response, especially out of the slow hairpin turns.
My best run of the day, when it counted, was 41.100 seconds. But during the fun runs, I got down to 40.037 seconds with the traction control fully off! UNBELIEVABLY, sans traction control I got over 1 second faster...and all this time I've been running with the traction control only in the semi-off posisiton...
Result: D - Stock 1st Place, for the first time! Guess my tires aren't holding me back as much as I thought!
Overall Results: http://sccahawaii.org/3-25-07.pdf
To Mycarpage.blogspot.com
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