What a gorgeous Febuary day for an autoX. I headed down to candlestick with my buddy Jeff who was racing his new BMW M3 SMG(the best part is mixing it up with all the other guys on the freeway heading down there) The first 350Z we saw belonged to this fellow Dave, this is also his sons cherry 510. Father son togetherness like this gets me all warm and misty

 

Ray and Dolphin were both next to each other in line, heres Rays touring brick w/Invisiguard installed, that should shave a couple seconds off his time

 

Dolphins track CS, w/Invisiguard also, so there should be no unfair advantage...

 

Jeff has one fast M3...

 

Here it is with 285/30/18s on the FRONT! This thing STICKS!

 

I was really impressed with the mix of cars that came out this time, heres one of my all time favorites, the Trueno, a whole swarm of em actually

 

Even old corrolas, I didnt even know guys restored/raced these, but heres 3 in the same place!

 

wouldnt be a race without a couple Minis, always a crowd pleaser. Guys that think big, fast, sports cars get attention from girls should see what happens when a Mini pulls up, they always want to go for a ride in one

 

KGB Racing. In case you were worried they had nothing to do since the colapse of communism

 

Enough talk, lets race. Redline was the first out, which would be his best at 66.8 seconds.

 

This guy Kevin came out of nowhere and dropped the bomb in his DB touring. By his third lap he had run a best time of 63.4sec. To put that in perspective, the fastest cars in this group were modified S2000s with race tires(good for 5 seconds alone on a track this big) and Kevin was faster than half of them bone stock with skinny 17in bridgestones! nice!

 

GO DOLPHIN!

 

Sounds good so far....Where's the details on the rest of the racers? How'd your buddy do with his M3?

-D'oh!

Edit: Oops, didn't mean to inturrupt your story...continue, please.

-D!

 

By the last lap Dolphin had posted a 66.9sec run and Ray had a 66.69 second run, this is a margin that we would classify scientificaly as smaller than an ants fart. But since close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades, Ray gets bragging rights

 

M3 you say? His best time was a 60.1 he placed 3rd in his group, fast time of the day was a full race E36 M3 with a supercharger that came in a trailer 58.01 FAST Jeff was beat out by a crazy S2000, and an even crazier MIATA what can I say, those things are just born to autocross.

 

KGBs BMW 2002 was pretty hot too at 64 sec

 

But the most fun of the day had to be the group of Truenos

 

These things were the OFFICIAL DRIFT KINGS of the autoX, by the end of the day they had quite a fan section cheering for their arm-flailing, sideways antics.

 

they also came with thier own Trueno RC cars to kill time with between runs

 

speaking of tiny cars, no its not just real far away, the mini really is THAT small