Here you will find Common Questions and Answers around SCCA and the Snake River Region.
First Autocross Help
| Be at the site at 8am, expect to stay till 4pm. Bring a car to drive, a drivers license, water, snacks, hat, coat sunscreen, comfortable shoes.
SRR specifics: Registration: This opens at 8am and closes at 9am the day of the event. We ask to see your drivers license, and membership card, sign a waiver and wear a wrist band. Then we register you and your car in a class, if you don’t know your car class, your in novice class this is to keep the registration line moving either have the conversation done before you get to the front of the line or wait till the next event. You don’t have to be a Member of the SCCA to run at normal events but there is a discount that quickly makes this worth while. You will get a reciept to take to tech with your car class and number on it. Tech: The reciept is used to verify your entry and that your car has the correct class and number on it. We will assist you with this, but bringing painter’s tape for numbers or your own helmet helps. You will be pulling everything out of the car and setting this on the ground, so wind/rain protection for your stuff might be a good idea. Course walk: It’s best to wait till the course is finished before walking it. If your one of the first you maybe asked help chauk the course. Novice course walk ~ 9:20am We try to have a novice course walk right before the drivers meeting, helpful driving hints are given here. Drivers Meeting ~ 9:30am This is mandatory for all drivers. Safety, and lastly run / work assignments are the focus. Everyone is expected to work, for most its working a corner station watching for hit cones and safely setting them back up. Remember your group: A B or C and see the worker cheif. Run/Work ~ 10am We tend to get between 6 to 8 runs a day depending on course layout. Occasionally we will have an enduro with fewer runs but a longer course. A lunch B Group A or B runs first, group B or A works first, lunch then switch. A B lunch A B Same as above coin toss determines with group runs first and half the runs in the morning half in the afternoon. A B C or ABCABC Work, Rest, Drive Sounds complex be when we have enough drivers this is our prefered method. Lunch in during your Rest period, you will be asked to hot swap to worker stations when there are just a few cars left in a group. It will be announced, repeatedly over the PA. Further reading: The Solo2 Novice Handbook here is a good read: http://www.tirerack.com/features/solo2/handbook.htm . Once upon a time there was a mailing list called team.net that had a very useful autocross faq, the San Fransicso SCCA region has it at this url: http://www.sfr-solo2.org/faq/autox.html NOV or novice class: Novice means either you don’t know your car’s class or you are new to the sport. It is also a signal for the regulars to come and chat get to know you, talk about autocross, offer to ride with you or give you tips, we try to be a friendly bunch. Novice rules: The car must not be wearing race rubber this indicates you or the car you have borrowed is prepared for autocross and that you should be in a regular class. You should plan on learning what class you belong in as we wouldn’t like to see you win novice more than a few (3) times. Novice PAXes with AM, this makes it very difficult to use PAX to compare yourself to other drivers. We don’t give end of the year trophies for novice.
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