I had an autocross recently and I am happy to say that it went quite well.  It has been a while since I’ve raced my car, and the excitement level for me that day was very high.  For my first run, I was shaking like crazy and didn’t calm down until I finished the run and parked the car.  After that, it was all business.  I stopped shaking for the remaining four runs and concentrated on driving.

This autocross had a few firsts for me.  Probably the best first that I had was that I slid my car around a turn.  Granted, it wasn’t a slide that would make me turn faster, it was a slide that came from entering the turn to fast…a power slide, if you will.  I also got pretty good with the Scandinavian Flick.  It is a quick snap of the steering wheel to throw the car a little bit.  I used the skill in the final turn coming out of the Chicago box so that my rear end would not slide through the final cone (giving me a 2 second penalty).

It was quite the experience racing again, expecially because I was on all season tires.  The tires only held for the first three runs.  After that, it all went downhill.  I had another problem during the autocross too.  My car has lately been experienceing power loss.  This came into play during a few of my laps, and it definately slowed me down a little bit in a few corners.

This power loss has been getting worse lately and today it finally peaked for me.  I say peaked because I don’t want to imagine that it could possibly get any worse without not running at all.  I finally took my car to a mechanic today and basically told him to get me running good again.  I did give him a few items that I didn’t want done if they needed it because they are easiest enough for me to do.  For now, I am driving my parents Durango (which I hate, but it gets me around for now).  I will give an update when I get the car back.  I told the mechanic that I needed it back by Saturday.  Hopefully he can, because I have an autocross on Sunday and would really like to run again.