Loren wrote:Rosko wrote:If anyone designing future courses is listening, there is one element I haven't seen in a while. I'd like a super high speed section that ends into a threshold braking area, like a tight, 90 degree turn maybe.
You haven't seen that for several reasons:
1. "super high speed" doesn't fit the definition of autocross, nor our insurance requirement to keep speeds below 60mph.
2. It's generally considered poor design.
Have a read.
3. Just like we try to avoid "dragstrip starts" because it's hard on clutches, we avoid those high speed 50-20 braking zones because they are a recipe for flat-spotted tires. We're about fun... flat spots aren't fun!
But, even on this course, there were several areas that required hard braking, and if you weren't "threshold braking" relatively late (but not too late), you were leaving time out there!
Understood, but when I said super high speed, I meant super high speed for an autocross, which is, yes, around 60mph.
I know that the start of this last course was designed to prevent that unwanted drag strip launch, but from what I heard it was not well liked. I saw the starter fix that first cone countless times. IMHO, it was just a bit too tight. In the interest of full disclosure, I never hit it. I agree with the intent. I like saving my rear tires, but when so many drivers hit the first cone, it just seems like something that might deserve a second look if this is the way starts will be handled in the future. On the flip side, many drivers also hit that cone in the Chicago Box, but that doesn't mean we should change it. I see both sides.
Yeh, there was one fairly hard- braking area approaching the diagonal slalom on the way back.
Okay, I'll take what I get and be happy. Shutting up now.
). Otherwise, that was a good run! 
.Oh well, there is always next month. So painfully far away 
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What's the weather forecast for Jan 21st?
