I'm going to the Evolution Autocross school in Ayer, MA at the Devens Air Force base. Anyone else going?

I'm dumb and forgot to post about this earlier! Anyways, I'm going for Saturday and Sunday (phase 1 and phase 2). Boston event info.

Hope to see some RX-8s there tomorrow!

 

how much is it

 

Good luck at the event Astral!

 

how was sunday? BTW where are the pics?!?!

 

I just came back from two days, where I did the phase I school Saturday and phase II school Sunday.

I learned a ton and had a great time. I think I had something like 18-20 runs (I lost count) on the course first day and ~16 runs on the second day. My car actually ran even more, as I asked the instructors to set some times Saturday. I improved 2.4 seconds (27.5 to 25.1) at the end of day 1, though an instructor got a 23.88 time on the same course (and another 24.02). So I have at least a second (on a 25 second course) of learning and driver improvement to do.

The 2nd day was a much more mind-oriented school, without timers. At first, everyone is wondering "what, no timing?" but then everyone understand and appreciates why. I also felt that it was the most difficult. Rather, I had to practice a bunch to work on the issues. Towards the end, the last run (before 2 free runs that we did), I pretty much nailed the course and came out cleanly through a section at the end that I was struggling with.

Now the time is to practice practice practice and put all those things I learned into use! I'm looking to do a bunch of autocross this summer, competing against myself ('cause I'm uncompetitive in my class, STX, with the summer tires and all).

There were 3 RX-8s there. Saturday, I ran in the same Phase I school with Scrapin 240. SoloSeven was there in his 8 doing a challenge or an extreme school both days. Sunday, a fella from NY (AUTO RX, not sure of forum nickname) was doing the challenge school. It was nice meeting y'all!

Vijay, thanks so much for the quart of oil! I'm gonna get you back, don't know how yet, but somehow .

I met a bunch of other great people there, mostly those in my school group. Hopefully I will cross paths with them again!

There were some particularly interesting cars out there, including a Panoz Roadster as well as a CLK 63 AMG Benz Black that was putting down some sick power.

By the way, much respect and a lot of thanks to Steve Hazard of the Boston BMW CCA for hosting the school!

 

don't worry about it, we're in the rotary family, when one needs oil, we give freely...btw any good pics?