Cars X Girl

One thing I missed terribly was racing. While I’ve never been fantastic at it, I also know I have potential… And I want to develop this potential. It’s important enough to me to work on it.

Plus autocrossing isn’t terribly expensive, so I can easily afford to do it. (Especially with my job.) As long as I can get the days off for it, I’m going to be there!

First Autocross of 2011

My last autocross was in 2009, which was also the year I did all of my racing… I think my first autocross was in December of 2008 and I ran the entire season in 2009. (Save for one autocross event I missed when I was doing my first track day.)

In 2010, I didn’t do anything because of our moving. It was also hard for me to afford it without a job…. So here I am, finally ready, willing and able to get back into it in 2011.

My Miata and I out on the course!

I had a blast racing, that’s for sure. It was a great day out for it, clear, mostly sunny and dry! The Miata handled great and I finally got to enjoy my Kumho Ecsta XS’s racing! It’s only what I got them for after all…

Results

My personal results were both good and bad.

I say good, because I nearly shaved off 12 seconds from my first run to my last run. That’s pretty good. I improved and my final time of a 52.9 was completely unexpected.

I also say bad, because I didn’t quite do well enough to place. I have no idea where I ended up… It’s kinda sad for me. I really like competing and winning, haha. I strive for that. But I’m at a huge disadvantage going up against people who have been doing this for so much longer than I have. The competitive times were nearly all ten seconds faster than my fastest time. Ouch.

Then again, I wasn’t the slowest person out there either! And that’s always a plus in my book.

And some photos!

I even managed to have some time to take some photos of the cars. My awesome husband worked for me on the first shift so I could play with my camera too. That was nice.

Three wheel cornering!

This is a car I never knew of until we got up here, a Nissan NX2000.

One of the new STi sedans doing what ours will be doing this fall.

I had a limited space of the field to shoot with, so I tried a few different things. Not sure if this is working or not, but I really like the mountains in the background.

The background mountains also look good here, though I kind of wish I had a slower shutter speed so the WRX didn't look like it was sitting still.

I kind of like the framing of the cones... (Not our S2000, but very similar!)

Meg

Meg is a car enthusiast and Porschephile who wants to get into track racing & car collecting. She was the 2009 Rookie of the Year in her first SCCA region, has driven a Ferrari 458 Italia on a track & is building her S2000 into a street driven race car. She shares her car life at CarsxGirl.com in an effort to show that some girls play with cars just as well as the guys do. (While still being able to rock heels & a manicure just as well as any girly girl.)

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