IES99
Go Kart Newbie
- Location
- SC Sea Islands
- Car(s)
- 2017 GTI S
I attended my first autocross (Solo) event at Darlington, SC. It was a "test and tune" day so we each multiple opportunities to run the course. 32 cars were there and we were divided into two groups one to man the course and a group to have an hour to run. After an hour we switched. The same scheme was carried out after lunch. I must have gotten in about 15 runs between morning and afternoon. All I can say is that now I know why I bought the GTI.
I was terrible during my first attempt; very slow and missed some of the gates, going the wrong way. (Even though I had walked the course twice before we started.) Our times were displayed. My first time was about 34 seconds. (The experienced people were running about 26 seconds). After a couple of times going myself an instructor got in beside me and I took a few tries but got no better. He asked if he could demonstrate with my car so we changed seats. He ran the course at 26 seconds. After that I was consistently at about 30 seconds.
In the afternoon I was more aggressive and first got to 29 and finally to 28 seconds on the last try. I have a lot of work and time to put in to get to where he was with the car and in one that he had never driven before. At least I know what the car is capable of and it is the driver that needs tuning.
But it was a blast.
I was terrible during my first attempt; very slow and missed some of the gates, going the wrong way. (Even though I had walked the course twice before we started.) Our times were displayed. My first time was about 34 seconds. (The experienced people were running about 26 seconds). After a couple of times going myself an instructor got in beside me and I took a few tries but got no better. He asked if he could demonstrate with my car so we changed seats. He ran the course at 26 seconds. After that I was consistently at about 30 seconds.
In the afternoon I was more aggressive and first got to 29 and finally to 28 seconds on the last try. I have a lot of work and time to put in to get to where he was with the car and in one that he had never driven before. At least I know what the car is capable of and it is the driver that needs tuning.
But it was a blast.