Impulse buy: 2015 Fiesta ST

[Senor_Taylor]

Did an autocross at VMP last weekend and another in Aberdeen MD this weekend. I think I've finally figured out how the car likes to behave and realized my biggest mistake was trying to brake too hard with the wheel turned, which this car doesn't like doing. Overheating the front tires in a FWD turbo car is always top concern in autocross, so I made sure to be very conscious of that. There were 9 people in STH so I was excited to actually try to compete.

I managed to improve my times almost every run and went back and forth for first place with a WRX. A car snapped a ball joint at the starting line before my 5th run so that gave my tires time to cool off so I decided to push is really hard and ended up securing first place by about a half of a second. The tires I'm running are the stock summer tires Fiestas came on which are a 140tw, but after 5 years they're not very sticky anymore.

The car hasn't given me too much trouble except for my interior getting wrecked by all of the junk I haul to autocrosses rolling around and scratching plastics, that damn rust on the hatch, and the blend door actuator clicking non stop ($20 part on order), so overall I'm still pleased with the car.