A few friends and I have been kicking around the idea of starting up an autox/driving club locally, as the SCCA events at FEDEX tend to be overcrowded, and the MMSports events down in Richmond are a haul for some people. This would be pretty informal, just a fun thing to expose people to sanctioned driving events in a cheap and convenient environment.

As of now, we've run into a few snags, the largest being a place to actually hold the events, other than events run by other organizations (for example, HPDEs at Summit or something). I've been reviewing the NASA CCR as well, and if we could get 100 members we'd qualify as a NASA-sanctioned club, and would be able to get autox insurance which would be otherwise unavailable.

So...anyone interested or have any suggestions?

Edit: Mods, if this is inappropriate, please let me know.

 

Are non-Terp, non-Honda/Acura noobies welcome? Would UM let you run on one of the campus parking lots?

 

Yeah, this is definitely not Honda-exclusive. UMBC MIGHT by some bizarre chance let us run, but the parking lots aren't really big enough. If we got some people from College Park involved, that might be another story. Otherwise, something like a vacant mall parking lot or something, with the owner's approval of course.

 

There's a bmw club autox in Bowie this weekend...

 

Most weekends it is easy to run in autocrosses both Saturday and Sunday in the DC-Metro area.


Modified by MichaelJComputer at 11:19 AM 9/8/2004

 

I made this list the other day, it doesn't include WDCR-SCCA events cause they're impossible to ergister for

 

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God you're awesome

 

Obviously I would be down for some local AutoX action adam

 

I would be interested in joining, no mods on my car, yet, but planning on it in the very near future. My old car would have been better to join, that had a lot of mods. I'll have pics of my car very soon, but if anyone is curious, I have pics of my old car.

 

Stock cars are perfectly welcome. Improving your driving before improving the car is the way to go, something I found out too late

 

And thanks for the link Mike, and for the info Navin

 

my email is LEddy1984@hotmail.com

PM me if you want...I'm very interested.

 

There are two days left to register for the BMW event... I'd sign up IMO, the group is very nice that runs the autox.

http://www.nccbmwcca.org/autoc....html

Would be nice to see some more h-tech people out there... We have a pretty strong showing of h-tech people already there...

pix from last bmw event..

http://www.h00kup.com/photos/auto-x-07.17.04/

 

woo woo

-sander

 

UMCP certainly has the parking lots and has organized car stuff in the past (there's a car page somewhere too).

I don't have the time to look into yet unfortunately.

Tweak - who wonders how people can afford racing in college.

 

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I'm with ya there...

 

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And you may even hold FTD for half the day with them! That is, until a certain pro runs in a certain beat old 535 and beats you by 2s

 

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Thanks Tweak, I appreciate it. As for affording it, while $30 or $40 for autoxing isn't a big deal, money is the one reason I'm not back on track until November

 

hope to see some of you pussay's out in Bowie...

yes, FTD dream's can come tr00!!

 

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Its hard but manageable. Just gotta keep up those 40 hr work weeks and im definitely down for anything you guys come up with.

BTW anyone going to summit next weekend? ill be there in group 1.

 

The UMCP motorsports club site is http://wam.umd.edu/~rbeas/main.html. Ive never been to any of there meets but it seems like a place to start

 

If this thing gets started, count me in

 

count me in.

How many runs are they doing this Sun?

 

4

 

sweeeet! im in!......

CP is the best