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Old 03-05-2015, 04:43 PM   #50 (permalink)
cruzthepug
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Originally Posted by ufoz8mycow View Post
Pretty much what cruz said sums it up... You won't need to put as much prep into your car for AutoX as you would for a full on track day.

-Don't skip the track walk in the morning. You'll regret it if you DNF your first couple of runs because you got lost amongst the cones. You'll probably get somewhere between 7-10 runs in a day, around a minute'ish each. Make them all count.

-Ride alongs are hugely important if you're new to AutoX or the track layout. A turn might look huge as you're walking the track but things tend to seem a lot smaller/tighter when you're at speed. This ties in to not wasting runs.

-Invest in a decent set of magnetic numbers for your car. There are tons of sites that sell them for between $30-70 depending on how fancy you want them to look. Trying to sit there and create numbers and class letters out of blue tape on the side of your car is a pain in the ***, especially if it happens to be windy that day.

-Check the SCCA website or your local SCCA chapter's website for class rules (you'll want to get that right for when you order your numbers). A bone stock 370Z should be in the B Stock class according to the 2015 rulebook. You might be in the B stock prepared class judging by the mods in your sig, but check the book to be sure.

-Don't worry about other people's times. Focus on consistently improving your own times and not wasting runs with DNFs.

-Have fun.


More great info, except, you would be in ASP, not BSP


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