The 2022 AutoX calendar fills out more dates!
by Chuck Pierce, AutoX/DE Chair
Autocross is a great way to start exploring the performance and road-handling capabilities of your Porsche in a safe, fast and fun environment. The course is laid out with traffic cones in a large parking lot. Turns are designed with varying degree of sharpness such that the best times result from superior driving skills, rather than horsepower.
The rules are simple: go as fast as you can without knocking over any cones. At the end of each run, your time is recorded, and a one second penalty is added for each cone you knocked down. In a typical day, you will get 10 to 12 runs. In the morning you will probably concentrate on learning the course, and in the afternoon show what you are made of.
If you are new to autocross and would like to give it a try, I encourage you to sign up for one the autocross schools put on by the Sacramento (2 days) and Golden Gate Regions (1 day).
Sacramento Region School plan:
Day one is a classroom setting that covers topics such as terminology, car control basics, hitting the apex, braking, how to determine the fastest line, safety rules, and what to expect in your first event.
Day two, the following week, will be held at Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows, CA. This provides students the opportunity to put the information learned in the classroom into practice. Various in-car exercises such as braking, slalom and skid pad will be performed. Later in the day, participants will have the opportunity for full course runs that will be timed.
Sign up for the Sacramento Region class starts February 5th
March 6
Sunday
AX School classroom session
Porsche Rocklin
March 19
Saturday
AX School Driving
Thunderhill
April 17 Sunday Autocross with AX school Crows Landing
