The best part is right at the beginning....
Here we go—videos of Layla and I at the track! One of Layla's many runs (22.7MB MPG) The run where I spun out (24.2MB MPG) One of the runs where I drifted the last corner (Part 1, 9.99MB) One of the runs where I drifted the last corner (Part 2,...
I admit, I forgot to mention: Layla beat my time at the autocross. Badly. She managed a 51.778 and my best time was a lousy stinking 53.306. So what the heck happened? Well, it turns out that Layla now has more track time in the BMW than I do. In...
That's right. I finally talked her into it. How I talked her into it was the A.C.E. Ladies Practice, held today at the Boeing plant up in Everett—the same spot as the novice school I attended about a month ago. The Ladies Practice is an annual event sponsored by the...
I spent all day today at the novice school hosted by the local SCCA chapter. I took advantage of this because it gave me lots of exposure to top-notch autocrossers (guys like Alan Dahl and Dieter Beldi, both amazing drivers) and also because I got a ton of seat time....
In honor of finishing up the first original content on Autos Articulated, I'm posting ... a link. The article is called Guilt-free racing on a budget. More content should be spooned up shortly....
I [heart] autocross. It's more fun-for-your-dollar than nearly anything else you can legally do in a full-size car. For between $25 and $40 a day, you get to drive your car around parking cones laid out in an ad-hoc track in a parking lot while a bunch of other folks...