SCCA Rally Cross school

[retreif]

Dates:
12/12/09 6-9PM Classroom session (location TBA)

12/13/09 8AM start (On location at Cannon Falls)- Yup, the conditions will be firm enough by December to make this happen!!!
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12/12/09 AGENDA:

The classroom agenda will cover practical Rally Cross skills that will allow you the opportunity to smooth out your lines, enter corners faster/brake later, and picking the best line out of the corner.

The classroom session will also cover car set-up, preparation for different courses & surfaces.

12/13/09 AGENDA:



8-9AM
Tech inspection (Same tech inspection we use throughout the season)


9-9:30AM
School recap & activity summary


10AM- 12PM
Rally Cross school starts. Students will navigate the course with one of the season's top drivers as your co-driver & instructor. You will gain valuable feedback, tips, and general driving advise from the best!



12- 1PM
Lunch (MNSOC donation lunch)

1PM-3/4PM
Timed runs (Your instructor will time you) No official timing equipment will be present. Students will navigate the course with one of the season's top drivers as your co-driver & instructor.


The school is designed to offer basic to advanced driving tips from cornering, braking, and picking the proper line.

CLASSROOM & ON-SITE INSTRUCTORS
Brent Carlson
Mark Utecht
Amy Springer
Dan Drury

We must have 15 students registrated and paid no later than 12/04/09 otherwise the school will be cancelled.

Fees:
SCCA Members: $40.00
Non-SCCA Members*:$55.00

* Non-members are required to purchase an SCCA Weekend Membership for $15.00
(The weekend membership can be used as a $15 discount on a full SCCA membership).

All competitors and spectators must sign the official SCCA Waiver of Liability.

All minors present must have a minor waiver filled out. Form can be downloaded, printed in color and filled here: http://www.scca-lol.org/rally/rallyx/rxinfo.php

Please download the registration and identification forms, and have
them filled out prior to the event if you don’t register on-line.

All students MUST work the course as a condition of event entry.

All students must have an FRS Radio, radios cannot be shared between competitors.

All students must have a Snell/M 1995 or newer helmet. Loaner helmets are available but the quantity is limited.

Not sure you’re ready to RallyCross?? This is the perfect opportunity for you to learn about the sport!!

Sign up:

http://mnautosport.com/scca-lol/rally/rallyx/register.php?id=10

[JCN]

I would pay $$ for a co-drive in someone's car. If you or anyone is interested, please PM me. And I don't care at all if the car is "fast" or not.

[JCN]

Well, I'm in and that makes 14... wonder if they'll cancel or not.

[Drocnoc]

15 participants, its on. :rockon

[JCN]

... like Donkey Kong.

[sprstu]

I got in on this as well and just read on the LOL SCCA forum that the classroom will be held
"The classroom Saturday night will be held at Davanni's in Arden Hills.

School hours - 6-9PM

Location

3673 Lexington Ave N
Arden Hills, MN 55126"


sadly I wont be able to make that portion but I will be there on sunday for sure!

[CarRacer]

Do they hold these on a semi regular basis? I'd like to attend one and see what it's all about but I'm not sure I can make this date.

Thanks.

[retreif]

I merely cut and pasted the event message here to try and get the magic number of attendees. I would check out here http://www.scca-lol.org/rally/rallyx/schedule.php and email someone there. Perhaps they can answer.

[ychanus]

... I wish I had seen this earlier. I won't be available this Sunday. Hope they will do this again soon in the future.

BTW, will you guys be driving on snow? given the weather in the next few days. It might be useful to have snow tires ;).

[ychanus]

Cancel all the planned activities, and just signed up.

See you guys there!

[murph]

Please tell us you're not using the ITR for that!

[ychanus]

"All students must have an FRS Radio, radios cannot be shared between competitors."

Any suggestion on what I need to buy?

[JCN]

I have a spare radio you can borrow.

[ychanus]

Thanks Charles, I'll borrow yours!


I have a spare radio you can borrow.

[ychanus]

lol.. I'll use my subie hehe!


Please tell us you're not using the ITR for that!

[asujosh1]

Damn, I want to go to this so bad but I have plans on Sat night that I can't cancel. :(

[ychanus]

I noticed some people actually skipping the Saturday class. May be you should still sign up and come for the Sunday class. I can try get you a copy of the class note.

[asujosh1]

Annnnnnd I'm number 19.

Now it really IS on like Donkey Kong. Charles, you ready to have some serious fun? Next thing you are going to buy an STI and have it prepped for rallying...

[JCN]

Hahaha! Someday, I'm going to have a pole barn full of purpose-built cars... track, autocross, ice racing, rallycross. Oh wait, I guess ice racing and rallycross sometimes intersect... :p

[asujosh1]

Confirmed: attendance at the Sat night school is not mandatory, but it is strongly encouraged.

I also got the actual location of "the Cannon Falls location" supplied in the info.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=111103266080855123511.00047a25cd5e88ed62e99&t=h&z=17

[ychanus]

Nice find.. I actually just posted on their forum to ask for the location address.

[sprstu]

thanks for posting up the map! it looks really easy to find.

[JCN]

That was fun! :rockon Some nice guys in that club.

[magicsammy]

that is a great site - were you grinning the whole time?

[asujosh1]

some pics from the day, one of the MNSOC guys took pictures

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kdmy0/sets/72157622994308600/

[decathect]

mucho fun indeed. Now to figure out where my brand new boost leak is...

[ychanus]

Just finally cleaned up the car! Great fun. A lot of good friendly folks there. Highly recommended to anybody that are remotely interested.

Awesome time when you learned to do the Scandinavian flick in a hairpin turn, and continue with a 4 wheel drift through the corner.

Will be back for more for sure.

[decathect]

Just finally cleaned up the car! Great fun. A lot of good friendly folks there. Highly recommended to anybody that are remotely interested.

Awesome time when you learned to do the Scandinavian flick in a hairpin turn, and continue with a 4 wheel drift through the corner.

Will be back for more for sure.

Awesome. You should totally do the rallyx this spring/summer. Its really fun to learn a course, feel faster, and watch your times come down.

Oh, and might I suggest some snow tires? :) Although they aren't nearly as vital for a normal rallyx race that doesn't have snow. But they still help a lot for grip on the dirt.

[ychanus]

Definitely in my "to do" list this summer. Too bad that they don't have more Rallyx events during the winter time, since it would then make sense for me to get a set of snow tires right now.

Kinda funny if I go out and buy winter tires during summer ;).



Awesome. You should totally do the rallyx this spring/summer. Its really fun to learn a course, feel faster, and watch your times come down.

Oh, and might I suggest some snow tires? :) Although they aren't nearly as vital for a normal rallyx race that doesn't have snow. But they still help a lot for grip on the dirt.

[sprstu]

way good time out there. I was very pleased at my Jetta's ability on the 'slopes'.
snow tires ftw.

[sprstu]

I guess I dont know who was all there from here, but you three guys were pretty fun to watch. I think everyone was surprised at how well that Q7 handled itself out there, it was really cool to see something like that taking it to a big 180 and then pulling a subbie out of the ditch 8). Decathect, it was very plain to see you getting more and more comfortable as the day went on, you looked really fast coming back up the hill out of the 180. And Ychanus, the first few runs looked pretty scary for you, and the 'conga-line' I was a little worried for a while about the saftey of your shinny new WRX but by the end of the day you looked much more composed, even on High Performance SUMMER tires ;).
Thanks everyone who played in the snow with me, I wish those happened more often

[ychanus]

Yeah, the first couple runs I drove with 1st gear, could not control it and was so slow to realize that. Also, I was somhow confused about the rule on the 180 degree hairpin area where I thought I needed to stop on both double cone line.. duh!

Yap, getting my car up on the conga line was a pain; but after doing that repeatedly for while, I got the hang of it at the end.

[dmoo]

bump

i decided everyone might not be on mnsubaru so i will post pics here as well

my GF was out there shooting some pics.
album: http://s395.photobucket.com/albums/pp39/krmatson/Rally%20Cross%20Driving%20School%2012%2013%2009/

http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp39/krmatson/Rally%20Cross%20Driving%20School%2012%2013%2009/IMG_1645.jpg

http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp39/krmatson/Rally%20Cross%20Driving%20School%2012%2013%2009/IMG_1453.jpg

http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp39/krmatson/Rally%20Cross%20Driving%20School%2012%2013%2009/IMG_1057.jpg

http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp39/krmatson/Rally%20Cross%20Driving%20School%2012%2013%2009/IMG_1608.jpg

it was good to see some new faces out from the atuo x scene coming to the dark and dirty side of rally x. hope you all had a good time, learned some things and had fun.

-Dan
(blue sti w green wheels) if you want to put a car to a user name

[JCN]

Thanks Dan and Kelly!

And Dan, if you had just said at the event, "I'm dmoo...." I would have recognized you immediately! :lol:

[ychanus]

Hey Dan, thanks for carrying my jack back to my car!

Nice pictures!

[marks_lude]

Cool shots!

[retreif]

it was a great time!

[sprstu]

for for the added pics!