Subaru Challenge in Maryland **Autocross Meet**

[Chiketkd]

Originally Posted by SVXRide

I "eyeballed" the course map and it looks like its about 1/4 mile long...

-Bill

Here's a pic of the course Saturday - each circle is 50ft (I assume in diameter?)



-Chike

[SVXRide]

Chike,
Yep, that's what I used .... came up with around 25 "circles"...
-Bill

[TomsSVX]

let me run slicks and we will see what sticks.....

Tom

[Chiketkd]

Originally Posted by SVXRide

Chike,
Yep, that's what I used .... came up with around 25 "circles"...
-Bill

On such a small course with such tight corners, they must really want to keep peak speeds down...

-Chike

STI driver design....

That will be a very fast course. Looking at the graphic, I see a lot of high speed cornering. Brake taps to settle the car and then accelerate through. STI's don't carve through corners, they bully their way through them. Makes sense to me. The proof will be in the walk through and on the first run.

The SM cars on this forum should keep up with them if you can manage the turbo.

The GS and HS cars should be able to hammer down the whole way and just use throttle for balance.

p.s. That was one tenth of a second = 2 car lengths (.1 seconds)

[TomsSVX]

Hey what about SM guys that are not turbo??? That just sucks for us I guess huh?? Anyway I am not really looking to compete, just have fun and learn the limits of my car a little more than i do on the street

Tom

[Hocrest]

Originally Posted by TomsSVX

Hey what about SM guys that are not turbo??? That just sucks for us I guess huh?? Anyway I am not really looking to compete, just have fun and learn the limits of my car a little more than i do on the street

Tom

Actually Tom, this will give you an advantage. On these tight turns, if they don't drive it right,their T's will spin down and they lose all of their low end torque to pull out of the turns. Our engine has nice torque down low without having to wait for the turbo to spool up

Granted most of the guys with turbo's in SM have done this before, but that doesn't mean that they can do it right

Originally Posted by TomsSVX

Hey what about SM guys that are not turbo??? That just sucks for us I guess huh?? Anyway I am not really looking to compete, just have fun and learn the limits of my car a little more than i do on the street

Tom

Fun is what it is all about. Get too wrapped around the axle and not only do you no longer have fun, but you go slower.

I suddenly remember my "Groundhog Day"...

"Dont! Don't drive angry!!"

[Hocrest]

Originally Posted by Chiketkd

Here's a pic of the course Saturday - each circle is 50ft (I assume in diameter?)

That's what I thought at first, but it also mentions that the black line is 25' from the red line and there are 4 of those units to a circle. So that gives the circle a radius of 50'.

Sooooo.... That gives a distance of about 1/2 mile which makes a lot more sense for a 60 second course. At other events on this lot, when they weren't using as much of the lot for the track, the times were in the 45-50 area.

4 DAYS!!!!!!

[ensteele]

That looks like a fun course. I wish I could see it in action. Have fun!!

[Earthworm]

I'm sure everyone will be bringing their cameras, webcams and camcorders to this event correct?

Originally Posted by Hocrest

That's what I thought at first, but it also mentions that the black line is 25' from the red line and there are 4 of those units to a circle. So that gives the circle a radius of 50'.

Sooooo.... That gives a distance of about 1/2 mile which makes a lot more sense for a 60 second course. At other events on this lot, when they weren't using as much of the lot for the track, the times were in the 45-50 area.

4 DAYS!!!!!!

The goal is to turn a 60 second course INTO a 50 second run!!!

VROOOOOOOOOOOM......

Originally Posted by Earthworm

I'm sure everyone will be bringing their cameras, webcams and camcorders to this event correct?

Dad will be there, so count on it.

[benebob]

Anybody have any old rotors they can bring along to donate to Dave and me? Thinking of widening the track a bit.

[Hocrest]

Originally Posted by Earthworm

I'm sure everyone will be bringing their cameras, webcams and camcorders to this event correct?

I can come up with a mount inside the racer if anybody has a SMALL digital video camera that they are willing to let us use to record a couple of runs???

Small and lightweight is key to avoid coming loose with the TREMENDOUS G's the racer will be pulling in the turns It should also be able to record 3-4 minutes at a time (in case we want to record one of Bill's runs )