NASA's Mid-Atlantic '06 Autocross Championship begins with a time trial/autocross for double points on the 1.1 mile "Patriot Course" at Virginia International Raceway outside Danville, VA on Saturday February 18, 2005.

This event only has ~60 slots open and you can sign up for a single heat (6-8 timed/scored runs) plus an optional additional heat (6-8 timed fun runs.) There will be NO WORK ASSIGNMENTS (NASA is hiring pro cornerworkers/cone ******** for this event.) Entry fees start at $50 and go up... the longer you wait to sign up.

When you're not autocrossing, you can watch US DRIFT on the Patriot Course as well as a traditional NASA HPDE (driver's ed) and NASA sprint/enduro roadracing on the 3.3 mile full course. Touring laps behind a pace car on the big track will be available during our autocross lunch break for only $10 per car.

Details, pre-registration, Patriot Course maps, videos, and soforth are here:

http://www.get-fast.net/nasacross/21806

We hope to see some RX-7's in action! ;-)

Thanks and happy holidays,

Jon

 

Great place to post this Jon, I am sure it will get some interest from here. I will be registering some time next week (this time of year things need to be scheduled around paydays). I will post a pointer to this in the Hampton Roads thread.

 

Thanks Calvin! I hadn't been here in a while (it's been a few years since I owned an RX-7) but it still looks like a great bunch of folks and hopefully everyone will want to come play at VIR.

I understand completely about the finance issue around the holidays... that's why we put the event info out as early as possible, so people could budget for it.

Anyway, thanks again and see you in Feb! ;-)

Jon

 

Almost half full as of today. No rotaries of any kind signed up yet. ;-(

Thanks,

Jon

 

God damn Jon I'm seeing this all over the place now.
I've got windsheild in the FC replaced so thats not an issue anymore (killed me from running in the last VMSC event)
I have a set of Hoosiers AS04's, are they going to be good for this or are the too soft?

 

Hahaha yep when we spread the word, we do it right. ;-)

Hoosiers would be fine for this. The pavement temp will keep them from getting too hot. But bring street tires also just in case of rain or whatever.

Thanks and PLEASE be there... it'll be unlike anything you've ever done with VMSC, I can promise you that. ;-)

Jon

 

I'll go pre-register n' stuff.
Who know's I may be running a Megasquirt setup by then too.
I'll have to take a weekend next month in the parents garage and tighten eveything up.

 

Sweet, I'm glad you'll be there Dave ;-)

Give the car a thorough pre-tech while you're in there:

http://www.nasaproracing.com/images/..._hpde_tech.pdf

Thanks,

Jon

 

well that didn't work
I can't access paypal here at work - it's blocked
and i'm not sure i even have an accnt anymore
and I need to join NASA

 

Those all sound like easily fixable problems to me. ;-)

Jon

 

you'd think so, but what you don't know is, I don't have an internet connection at home
edit: well I'm a NASA member now - let's see about this pre reg now
later edit: looks like I'll have to do the pre-reg and sign up with paypal from GF's house
I hate this ****
It's a good thing I wanna go so badly.
I''ll let the Richmond thread know about it

 

No internet at home? I'd rather have no heat, lol...

(What you don't know is that I have scorching fast internet at home, but no heat at the moment.)

Anyway- sorry you're having to jump thru all these hoops, but I PROMISE YOU that you'll have a blast at VIR in Feb! ;-)

Jon

 

You two go get a room already!!~

 

If there's still space when I get my first "post-xmas" paycheck, I'm there!!!

Dan

 

Yesplease! 30 spots remaining (half full) as of this moment... ;-)

Jon

 

I'll probably be working at the HPDE event that weekend. Maybe I'll see some of you there.

 

Thanks for working. Flagging, I hope? Best seat in the house! I'll be on the big track Fri & Sun in the instructor groups, probably in a green '98 M3, so feel free to give me the blue flag for no reason. ;-)

Jon

 

I'll be starting the flagging training that weekend. NASA gives out 'points' for working track events and after 2 weekends you get a free HPDE event. Sounds good to me since I love being at the race track even when I'm not driving. They even provide the hotel room, although it is 4 people to a room lol.

 

I've been thinking about going to this one, but if I do it'll probably be in my VR4 which is pretty well setup. There's still a lot of stuff I need to address on the FD before I'm comfortable making a long trip or autoxing it.

 

Well it's full now, there is room on the waiting list - you never know who may bow out - glad I gots in .

 

Update: we are adding a 5th heat for the waiting list plus a few more. Registration has re-opened and there are only 3 guaranteed spots left, if anyone's interested.

Thanks!

Jon

 

I just got signed up (was on the wait list), I'll be bringing my FD to HPDE1 that weekend. Hope to see some of you guys there. This will be my first performance event in this car. Previously I've driven exclusively AWD so this is a big change.

 

I'll be there in my black FC wit the "sparkly" pinstripes, you can't miss it you can literally see it from a mile away if the suns shining.

 

Thread back from the dead... this event is a go for Sun Feb 25, 2007 and will be very similar to all three times we did it in '06. Info & pre-reg are linked from our series page:

http://www.nasaracing.net/autox.htm

Or, more specifically, here:

https://www.nasaproracing.com/nasa_e.../?event_id=436

Thanks,

Jon