What are you doing right now?

[Morgan]

Originally Posted by LtNoogie

You have enough time to hit 65 - 70? No way do we have enough time to get that fast. In fact, they've thrown in a slalom once because a section was too straight. Half the people DNF'd their first run because it wasn't there during the course walkthrough.

How long have you been racing? Does your BF race too?

We have a pretty large area to race on and most of the course is hairpins and slaloms, we always seem to have at least one really fast section where I hit the rev limiter in 2nd (so I know everyone else is doing at least 65). We get to the event site at 9, get set up and walk through the course at least once/twice and then we get one/two drive-thrus before the first car takes off at 11:00.

Our region is very fortunate to have such a nice venue (Hunt Army Air Feild, 15 miles or so north of Dothan, AL) and the courses are very long at take a good 60 seconds to complete even for the fast cars, so I'm guessing - close to a mile if not a little more? Typically there are about 40 cars competing. Everything from a fully built SM Sti to stock 91 Saturn SL2...

I had been to a few autox's before but never competed or even rode with anyone. Jan 08 was my first event and I co-drove my bf's 02 Mini S and loved it (the car and the autox). So by the next month I had acquired my Yaris and competed on stock tires, suspension and um it was pretty abysmal! But I went from literally bottom of the list to upper middle with my Yaris.

Kevin changed to a 04 MR2 spyder in June I think and then an 06 Mazda6 V6 in December but always managed to stay ahead of me most months no matter what he drove.

Giving some credit to the yaris, being a street driven car with no real compromises to speak of it does alright. I have TRD springs/sway and 205/50/15 Azenis and keep up with people who have invested $5k+ in their miatas... but I'm slowly finding the limit of what I think the capabilities of the mostly mushy front end - after disassembling the front end, 99% of the bushings under the car are very disappointing... oh well its still a reliable toyota at the end of the day