sorry if this is a noob question, but im kinda new to auto x. so... just curious as to why they have to tape their headlights?...
tia

 

less glass clean up if you crash but no need for it in a auto-x. LOL... imagine w2w auto-x.


Modified by ByronC at 8:50 AM 10/20/2003

 

dunno where y'all autoX, but the SCCA does not require your headlights to be taped.

 

I have never in my life seen people tape their lights for auto-x. Road racing, of course, and sometimes HPDEs, but never autocross.

 

I've seen some kid in a riced-up CRX do it at my local autocross, but no need to do.

I would like to try a W2W autocross.

 

Why the hell would you do this anyway?

Matt<---autocrosser for 8 years, never with taped up headlights....

 

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At an autox, you wouldn't.

At a track, you might because it makes glass cleanup easier, as all the glass bits stick together when you bang up the car.

 

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At an autox, you wouldn't.

At a track, you might because it makes glass cleanup easier, as all the glass bits stick together when you bang up the car.</TD></TR></TABLE>

i see now... sorry for the confusion... not during auto x, but at a track. mah bad...
but thanks.

 

kind of like leaving your number on the side of your car for the drive home.... "look at me"....

 

Crack, yeah I've been taping headlights for track events for over 3 years now. Just wondering "why the hell you would do this" for an *autocross*.

But my question was answered here:
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Rocks+120 mph = shattered headlights...

 

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I drive to the event with the numbers on the sides. I like to have the car fully ready to run, short of emptying the trunk, the night before a local event. That includes applying all the magnetics and such. I strive to follow the speed limit exactly when the car is "dressed," so as not to attract any undo attention. I do take them off, however, before driving home.

 

Around here that gets you rather negative attentiont from the folks in uniform. But we don't have an extremely high decal-car quotient so they're not really used to it I guess.

I'd be too paranoid about losing them on the freeway.

 

If they won't hold at freeway speeds, they certainly won't hold at track speeds.