autocross

Well this has to be the most retarted question i have probobly ever asked but i haven tdone any autocross but i want to and i was looking a some local autocross pics and i was woundering if there are two rows of cones the entire course or what. But could someone tell me.

Thanks

not all have cones wheeeeeeee i'm drunk

Yeah there are sets of separated cones deliniating the track.

There are cones on both sides, and sometimes a line of cones which you have to slalom in between. Just show up at a meet and they'll explain everything to you... it's actually pretty fun/interesting and you get to meet a ton of new people with same interests as you.

It all depends on the course layout. Some of the national Solo tour courses and even local event courses will sometimes stick in sections where there are no cones to the side of you. You just go from one section to the other, though there will ALWAYS be an entrance spot and an exit spot to sections like this. These sections can be "bad" as unless the exit is directly across from the entrance, you can seriously get lost looking for the exit among the cones that line the rest of the course. That happened to me on one of my runs at the last even I did, and I came toa complete stop just to re orient myself, and save from getting a potential DNF for that run (Did Not Finish). Also slalom (going between the cones) sections typically won't have any cones on either side, you markers are the single line of cones that you drive around and between. So simply put, it all depends on the course and design of it. :)

Here's an example of one of the courses my locat auto-X club set up at one of the evenats last November I think it was...

http://www.digitalstar.com/phixion/images/223510.JPG

The lines denote where the boundery line of cones is at. Also note the sections that are "lineless" where there are no boundry marker cones. These are "free for all" zones unless you have a slalom section like the "coneless" are on the right side in section #1 The other coneless section to this course on the left side wasn't a free for all either. If you look close, you can see dots that mark where there are cones that you have to be sure to stay between. This was one of the more fun courses I've run. It was fairly fast, had some surprises in it, and in the top right corner, there was a an elevation dip that could EASILY mess one up going into that double apex section that quite a few of the RWD cars liked to drift in to get through it. Even saw a guy there with a suped up Dakota 5.9 R/T pickup drift around and get some considerable tire smoke doing so. Cool stuff! :cool:

That's a pretty simple track design. Looks like 40 seconds would be about par there. The layouts here have recently been pretty intermediate to advanced, taking about 50-55 seconds for experienced drivers. I've taken my fair share of cones and battle wounds away from them :)

That's a pretty simple track design. Looks like 40 seconds would be about par there. The layouts here have recently been pretty intermediate to advanced, taking about 50-55 seconds for experienced drivers. I've taken my fair share of cones and battle wounds away from them :)

That course was actually a little more complicated, and longer than it seems. Took the "pros" in the high 50's to low 60's the complete. we've head some lately that take the mid to high 70's for the "pros" to compete. I shoulda taken a pic of the sketch of the last course I ran on with the "no sides" sections in it.