definately agree.. SCCA Sanctioned events... and even non SCCA run events are most definaltely a better alternative than racing on the street..

both autoxing and drag racing are much much safer.. i dont understand why people still street race with the plethora of alternatives available..

 

if you guys have ever been to the Palm Bay BCC (where they hold events on this coast), you'll notice on the far side of the course is a berm kind of thing. i've seen a miata go over it and take a chunk of dirt in his wheel. pulled the tire off the bead and everything. also scuffed up his front bumper if i remember correctly. i've also seen other minor stuff...but no major wrecks or anything.

although there's a guy with a Z06 that was racing in south florida and let a woman drive it (nothing against women drivers, this driver just happenned to be a woman). anyway, she slid it into a fence, tore off his passenger side mirror, crushed the passenger door, and bent the frame a wee bit.

p.s. this picture is the miata i mentioned. this is how we rode to wal-mart to try and get the original fixed in time for the 3rd run (although we were unsuccessful).

 

Then race somewhere where's there's nothing to hit..........i.e. Florida State Fairgrounds.

I was notorious for spinning out and ending up backwards and sideways and in the dirt.....but never once did I do any kind of damage to any car.

 

That one I did hear about. I've even read the driver's version of what happened. The driver was a very experienced autocrosser, as I recall. (though I can't remember who it was) She got behind the wheel of an outrageously fast car that she wasn't familiar with, was overconfident, and let it get away from her.

 

Steve Burger (former National Champion) and another Z06, with the woman driver (she was an instructor) have put cars into the fence at GCAC.

This is the motorsports forum... get your street racing bullshit out of it. Simply put, It's incrediably STUPID.

 

Ive seen a Cone stuck under a car before. Repare cost. $0 repare time 1min, thats as bad as ive ever seen it. howered franklyn, ive seen a good number of totaled cars, some look like a no surviver situation. oh ya i got a scuff once autoxing. wow those dangrious autox corses i dare never go back again in fear of all that damage

 

And I guarantee every instance at an autox you can come up with of a car being damaged can be attributed to the driver and the driver will admit that. Yes, Palm Bay has the berm. YOU KNOW IT'S THERE... YOU KNOW WHERE TO TAKE IT JUST A LITTLE BIT EASY. and if you respect the course, you have no issue...

 

Worst thing that's happened to my car was the plastic undertrays under the Protege. The MR2 needed an alignment after multiple "offs" at high speed...

 

I think for a newbie an automatic would be great just because that one less thing you need to worry about.

 

Exactly.