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Rich & Erinn: 2003 Porsche Parade Autocross Champions!!
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Rich: 2004 Porsche Parade Autocross Champion!
Without a doubt, autocrossing is one of the most fun driving events a driver can have in a car! Here is one of the few events where a driver's ability is more important than the car's ability.
For those of you who do not know what autocrossing is, imagine a large obstacle course where drivers are challenged to maneuver their cars around cones in an abandoned parking lot or airport runway. Speeds can reach 100 mph and 5 mph, all on the same course. And to really mix it up, each cone that you hit is a 2-second penalty. What all this means is a lot of turning, a lot of braking and a lot of cones, and all while keeping your Stang from spinning.
The real test in autocrossing is NOT how fast your car can go, but how smooth
you are. There is a lot more to autocrossing that just putting the hammer down
and getting through your gears. Here, you have to think about accelerating,
braking, downshifting, turning-in, tracking-out, upshifting, holding on and
avoiding cones! One thing is for sure, you will definitely come away a much
better driver every time you autocross. For you road racers and drag racers,
autocrossing can greatly improve your times.
If you are interested in learning how do autocross, you can come to one of the many autocross events around Florida put on by one of the following clubs: Equipe Rapide, Gulfcoast Autocrossers, Gold Coast-PCA, Suncoast-PCA. For those of you who are seasoned autocrossers and have yet to experience the Bay Bottom Crawl, you are missing the single best event we participate in each year! Just click on the link to see what this great event is all about.