What's the worst that could happen?
 

I really want to start getting my feet wet in the racing world but want to limit the damage I could do to the Z until it's paid off. As a result HPDE's are not an option yet as hitting wall or the likes is not a risk I'm willing to take. I was thinking about looking into doing some autocross however.

Now I know these events are generally held in large parking lots, etc., so would it be safe to assume that body/structural damage is extremely unlikely?

Thanks in advance for the useful input.

check with chrisslicks. he 'dances with cones.' :D

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go with an organized club and you can buy insurance for HPDE. Clubs like BMW, PCA, Chin, MVP, etc.

Come on... "Who doesn't like to get sideways? Terrorists, that's who!" :happydance:

Death indeed. Autocross..where medical personnel on-site is an afterthought, yellow flags are for Brazil, and the "officials" are a bunch of douchebags with their hats on backwards and their hands in their pockets going "uh, what do we do now" :shakes head:

Depends on the lot. Go search YouTube for autocross crashes. This is a favorite...



I remember another w/ a 350Z that was hauling *** and flew up over a curb, and into a tree...

PAUSE THAT VIDEO AT 0:18 ----- GUESS WHO!!!!! HAHAHA :tiphat::tup:

I remember coming off track and my buddy who was videoing me told me what happened.

ouch :(

That looked painfully expensive for 30mph crash. What did he do? Gas it and slam on the brakes. That was weird.....Ouch +2

Hahaha, nice eye, Bee!

Those cars easily have enough torque to get you into trouble with all traction control turned off. If you look at his front end, the suspension unloads ABRUPTLY rather than gracefully, so I assume he floored it in a low gear with no traction control turned on, and simply broke it loose. The course itself is straight at that point (correct me if I'm wrong, KB), and I saw no steering, nor brake input. The *** end just came around from what appears to be him simply flooring it.

It actually went into a short slalom (sp?) and then a straightaway to the finish.

It's a Bird.... It's a Plane... It's..... Killer Bee!!!

Ahhh...and slalom is correct heh.


Did you ever find out what happened with him specifically?

how damaged was the car? I'm guessing there was some suspension and possibly frame damage from the force of the impact?

Here you go :tiphat:

http://www.the370z.com/members/eazyd...bees-debut.png

The autocross event I go to is in a huge airfield in Massachusetts. ( devens airfield - Google Maps )

There really is no place to crash because they put cones so far away from buildings, etc and there is just grass around. I feel safe.

EDIT: Just realized you can see the skid marks on this satellite image :tup:

I like autocross and will be doing it again this year. I went to an event where a guy wrecked a 3000gt the week after he lunched a ZO6 with an instructor with him. 2 weeks 2 cars 1 person, nobody else so much as scratched thier paint. Could it have been the driver? LOL what a tool.:bowrofl:

I did. Only for point by passing but this is perfect for getting your feet wet. You can even insure your mods.

you handsome devil you

Wow.... when did they start having Rally-Autocross????

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dang, the KB Z looks so much better than that vette. :icon17:

Crazy thing is there was a ton of runoff, and yet like 4 people almost wound up in thr ditch. Hell, the kid I lent my car to gave me a scare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htw0WUJuSSY

Am I looking at God, Zed? GO TOWARDS THE LIGHT.

I about pissed my pants when he did that.

Funny thing is, that vid shows how far the s2k guy slid. **** really speeds up when you get on grass

Video? I'm getting nothing here - just a big, white box. Thats why I was joking about going towards the light :-p

Yeesh, talk about excessive input....it reminded me of when you're playing a racing game and you dont give a **** about crashing, so you stay on the gas hoping to hold it out and you fight the skid, only to eventually crash anyway :-p

Dent let the vids scare ya. it takes some work to f up your car in an autox

Doesn't take much to embarrass yourself, though:



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Jesus, what the **** was he doing? lol



I mean.....what? I dont even...

Setting fast lap of the day, doh! :p

Well I'm ASSUMING that was SUPPOSED to be a slalom that he was doing circles around for some reason...lol

embarrassment to his famiry

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I thought the look of his car is an embarrassment already

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I didn't ask. It looked pretty fugged up though!