Does anyone here do autocross?

Me and my buddy have been talking about finding one or even starting our own autocross league but we really don't know where to start, where to go, who to talk to to get it going. Any ideas, maybe a website or something? It seems like it would be a lot of fun, but not really sure where to go!

 

Ya, I do occasionally in my 63 Mini. An absolute hoot - you can learn some basic skills - its cheap (you can compete in a road car).

Best to find your local racetrack/airfield etc. and enquire with them... if not, any local car clubs

 

I know that some sanctioning body (can't remember which one), sometimes has an auto-x here on the University of Maine campus in the summer (when there are big empty parking lots). Might look and see if somewhere around you they do something similar...

 

Did it in the 80's and early 90's in a Porch 914, Pinto, H-production right hand drive Austi Healy Sprite 1, Mustang and had a lot of fun! Even got to run a 308 TGB!

www.scca.com

 

Used to years ago - it was great fun and you 'run what you brung'. Mostly MGs Triumph, Healeys and few new kid, Datsuns back then. Stores that were closed Sundays would let you use their lot in exchange for cleaning up the weeks worth of accumulated trash. Win-win.

That was before everyone became scared silly over liability concerns. Insurance nowadays is next to impossible to obtain even if you could afford the price. Big outfits like SCCA still sanction and sponsor autocrosses but mostly in the big metropolitan areas on private sites/tracks.

 

Yep, there used to be a local club that would use the High Scool parking lot on off days to set-up cones. Great fun. They still get together at different areas(w/o permission), though for liability concerns have dissolved the club. I go once in a while, haven't been but twice this year, to many other things to do on weekend mornings. I usually take the Rabbit, but the Dakota did pretty good too a couple times. The F150 would get me laughed off the course .

 

Here's a lot of info on SCCA Solo:

SCCA Website