<div>Jon,</div>
<div>Who sanctioned the auto-x?</div>
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<div>Tim Rogers<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Jon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:turboser3006@verizon.net">turboser3006@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I went to the auto-x this weekend. I suppose I should share how I got<br>there. I was playing GTA4 when it occurred to me a real car would be a<br>
lot more fun. Part of the allure of auto-x (for me) is I can try some<br>possibly stupid things and the probability of something catastrophic is<br>near nil. I didn't even clip a cone the whole day. In trying some stupid<br>
things, I like to think I learn something about my car and/or driving in<br>general that may save my bacon some day. I really want to explore the<br>limits of my car a bit in a safe, controlled and legal environment...<br>
<br>I had met a coworker who was there driving a Subaru WRX. He was in front<br>of me on the grid and we were driving our 4th and final run. As I'm<br>driving about half way through the course, I get red flagged... and it<br>
turns out my coworker had wrecked into a light pole. Noone was<br>injured... the pole won the contest however and I don't think the WRX<br>will see the road again. It started to catch fire and they hosed that<br>chemical powder all through it. I think in the end it was bad course<br>
design, there were several other cars that got close to that pole. The<br>way it was set up there was a pretty fast slalom at the finish and cars<br>tended to get sideways there and head for the pole. The incident really<br>
wrecked my mood along with it. I got a rerun, but I just wasn't as into<br>it. I think he is also going to have a hard time with insurance...<br><font color="#888888"><br>Jon Davis<br>+----------------------------------------------------------------------+<br>
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<div></div><br>-- <br>Tim<br>