01-04-2012, 09:10 PM
D_Eclipse9916 Wrote:Evan Wrote:There is nothing like wheel to wheel racing. Cant describe it, cant explain it, and nobody who hasnt done it can understand.
autoX and TT, even at a national level, is just masturbating in comparison.
I have wheel to wheel raced........ TT loses interest, but autox is just as exciting. Autox is about driving skills, racing is about racing skills.
I get just as much excitement and fun out of "nailing a line" through a set of cones, as I do completing a great pass.
PS - Keep talking, its helping, maybe ill figure out what I want to do by the time 2012 season is over :lol:
I'm kinda in the same boat as you DJ, except on one side of the garage I have a nationally competitive autocross car and on the other side of the garage is the Spec Miata. I get excitement from both, but as Evan said there is nothing like racing wheel to wheel, but pulling off a near perfect autox run, beating all the CSP Hoosier'd cars in the STS Miata w/ street tires is a VERY close second. When I first started with the SM I was driving myself crazy messing with setups on both cars while trying to learn race craft in the SM. During the middle of 2010 season I got to the point of having enough and thought about putting both cars up for sale and buying a 911. I decided before I did that I would look through my notes, pick a setup for both and just leave it to finish out the season and figure out what I was going to do. My first race after that in the SM was my first podium finish. Since then I've had more success in both cars, because other than the basic maintance I just show up to the track and drive them. In a perfect world I would have one car to do both, but I am guessing that my running cost for both cars are lower than the M3.
So basically, I vote Spec Miata. Get back to the basics and just have fun at the track and not worry about every adjustment.
Every off season I sit down and think about selling everything for the 911, but only for a minute. I am way to addicted to the rush that I get from slidding behind the wheel and putting on the harnesses, no matter what car it is