We don't have much hills to climb around here...lol, we do have plenty of parking lots.
I've been doing AutoX in my car for 2 years now, just doing it not very seriously and just more to have fun. Being not much fun roads to drive on and track days are expensive, autoX is just cheaper, slower and more accessible than anything else while you are still doing limit handling stuff, just at a slower speed. I think the appeal in US vs the rest of the world is that it is much cheaper and we do have plenty of open space. The technique and setup of cars is sorta biased to that effect, but its still a fun thing to do with cars. And there is just less stuff to worry about either breaking or hitting something. Like I said in the video thread, hillclimb stuff blows my mind...to think people do that in their road cars too... AutoX is also pretty much a natural extension from doing Formula Student/FSAE since that's what we are doing with those cars. Just doing it a lot slower now in street cars...
I am still just using my Golf.
Last edited by RacingManiac; 05-15-2013 at 08:39 AM.
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