05/26/2012 - Autocross @ Regency Furniture Stadium

[etherpool]

The Maryland Dog Fest is being held inside of the stadium this weekend. There will be 4 police officers there to direct traffic. People will be directed to park in the grass areas around the parking lot. So their event should not interfere with ours. That being said every one should be aware and pay extra attention for anyone wondering into our area.

[civicexracer]

bahahaha wow, the dogs are following me!

[E30318is]

Hi guys. Does the sell out mean that afternoon walk-ups are not allowed tomorrow? Thanks.

[etherpool]

Hi guys. Does the sell out mean that afternoon walk-ups are not allowed tomorrow? Thanks.

That's correct. Sorry. We have almost 120 pre-registered entrants for tomorrow.

[03threefiftyz]

Something has come up and I won't be able to make it after all . Have fun guys.

[etherpool]

That sucks man. I'll do what we discussed earlier.

[03threefiftyz]

Sweet. Thanks.

[hepcatz]

Something has come up and I won't be able to make it after all . Have fun guys.

Bummer. See ya at Bowie then if you are going to that event.

[Walka]

Something has come up and I won't be able to make it after all . Have fun guys.

you tease!

[03threefiftyz]

Bummer. See ya at Bowie then if you are going to that event.

Won't be there either...:-(

[ElGordoFeroz]

WEEE! great course design, very fast kind of wish I had a rwd car so I wouldn't just push into corners! anyways good times guys! thanks!

[etherpool]

Thanks to everyone who came out today!! Results are up! http://forum.nccbmwcca.org/downloads...id=97&act=down

And remember if you see anything that needs to be corrected please use this form. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...RaSlE6MQ#gid=0

See you all on the 14th of July. Registration opens Monday!!

[hepcatz]

Awesome, that was fast! Thanks for a great day!

[Claff]

Love the quick turnaround with the results. Course was good considering what we had to deal with.

I think the club needs to be a little more proactive when it comes to calming down/parking participants who decide to put on drift events or otherwise noticeably overdrive their skill levels with spectacularly bad results on a more-than-random basis. The Jaguar looked decent out there when it was under control, but when it wasn't, it was embarrassing to the whole NCC program. It's bad enough to just chuck away the thought of getting a good time and cutting loose to see how far one can hang the tail out, but big smoky spins in front of an audience of dog expo attendees is not going to cast the club, and autocross in general, in a good light. Do it at Bowie and you're looking at an accident scene.

I'm sure NCC would hate to lose this site, and I know Autocrossers Inc would hate to lose this site, but take people who might already be predisposed to dislike autocross for forcing them to park in grass and put on a display of irresponsible driving for them, and we look like an amateur operation that doesn't have to be there to them. Those people go to the stadium management and say "we had to park in a field because you allowed a reckless driving club?" and that might be all it takes.

None of this even takes into account causing unnecessary delays on a hot day and forcing course workers to pick up the mess that was made.

Having gotten that out of the way

Here is my video of my 33.119, which wasn't good enough for much of anything in X1

[Claff]

Here's Kate's best run, 35.091, which was 5th best out of 16 drivers in X4