Autocross (Solo PRO)

A course map would look something like this. I looked at my old emails but the guy that designs the courses hasn't been sending out the maps ahead of time in a long while. Anyway, you need a very large parking lot. Fortunately in our area we've got the Hershey amusement part that also houses a music arena so there's probably hundreds of acres of parking. Since it's still not the best o weather the park isn't open in March, April and up to mid May the park rents a space of the lot to us for the AX events. They do the same in Oct and Nov.  Here's a typical AX course though.



All of the cones mean "something" you can read up a little bout solo pro rules but it's basically try not to hit cones and if you hit them, don't knock them down.  If you knock them down or hit them hard enough to take them out of a chalk line footprint that's drawn at the bottom of the cone, it's a +1 second added to your time. You'll see that in the results.

The pointers "V" vectors are telling you which side of the cone to drive on like for example the slalom shows the line driving on the correct side of the cone. If you miss a gate or drive on the wrong side of the cone, then you're off course and it's considered a DNF.

The "T" means you trophied in the class. They if a class had five or six competitors they're generous and will trophy the top two or so. If a class has 30 cars, then they'll trophy five or six cars. It's for fun, the club is not super competitive but there's a lot of SCCA national level drivers that do our events because it's always good to get seat time and we run them smoothly so most of the cars at an event tend to be "O" or other meaning not Porsche cars. The "m" means it's a Porsche Club member, we track the events for the year for the club members because there's a running annual championship. Wining a class or trophy in a class gets you certain points and the points are tallied for the season. So as long as you win or trophy your class and attend a lot of the events you've got a shot at the championship.

The reason the 911 for example same for the old 914 or so can be in different classes is because You can't compare a 911 from 1975 to a 911 of 2005. The performance difference are huge so they class them according to basic rule. But the reason cars can be in different classes is because you can modify a car big time, so basically you wind up a Porsche 911 from 1982 such as the fast time of day car that is lighter with fiberglass doors and hood and deck lid, is on slicks, has a different engine with more displacement, and on and on and on. So there are points that are accumulated for various mods and you can have a car that moves up three or four classes because of the modifications.

The times you see are the amount of runs. We typically do five or six runs but when you've got a lot of cars, we've got to vacate the lot by 3pm so we can't do that many runs. There's generally two cars on the course at a given time with a safety buffer between the two so they don't collide or on car backs the other one up.



Funny I was looking to show you a video of our event and the first thing that popped up was a guy in a newish 911... in this clip if you look at the extreme left as he's pulling out and then is waiting to get the the start gate, I saw my car! Look for the 911 with the yellow headlights a la GTLM specs.