About this event
INTRODUCTION TO AUTOCROSS
March 5 & March 7, 2020
Are you familiar with Autocross? It is a performance driving experience around a course marked with traffic cones conducted in a safe environment at relatively low speeds. If you are new to the club, new to your Porsche or other favorite car, want to improve your driving technique, or simply want to enjoy your car, join us for a great school to develop basic autocross skills for novice level drivers. This school is designed as an introduction to Autocross, with the inexperienced student in mind. The school will include a classroom session Thursday evening followed by an on-track session on Saturday. The Saturday session will include various exercises with track-side discussions, guided course walks, and in-car coaching. On Sunday, we will have set up a course with lots of interesting autocross features. Twists, turns, and slaloms all await you to improve and challenge your driving skill. You will gain additional confidence in your driving ability, learn the limits of your car's braking capabilities, practice correct seating, hand, feet, and vision positions, as well as push the limits of your tires' adhesion capability,
SPACE IS LIMITED, PRIORITY WILL BE GIVEN TO PCA MEMBERS!
Location: Sandia Speedway/Albuquerque Area (Link)
Entry Fee: The cost is $100 and includes the Thursday evening classroom, Saturday Track school and the Sunday autocross. If you can only attend on Saturday, the cost will be $55. NOTE: You must pre-register for the school event; no on-site registration will be available on Saturday. Payment is deferred and accounts will not be charged until registration closes, so if you register and find out that you can't make it, please cancel your registration prior to the close of on-line registration on Thursday Feb. 28.
SCHOOL SCHEDULE SATURDAY AUTOCROSS SCHEDULE SUNDAY:
8:30 am Check In and Welcome 7:00am Setup
9:00 am Drivers' Meeting 7:45 - 8:30 am Check-In/Registration/Tech
~9:30 am Car Safety Check/Course Walk ~8:15 - 9:30am Open Course Walk
10:30 am Driving: Exercises/Drills 9:00am Guided Course Walk
~12:00 am Lunch 9:30am Drivers Meeting (MANDATORY)
12:45 pm In-car Instruction 10:00am First Car off
3:30 pm Wrap Up ~12:00 am Lunch
3:30 pm Wrap Up
Info: $10 Cancellation Fee if canceled after on-line registration closes or you do not show up to the autocross by 8:30 am.
Event requirements
You must have a valid drivers license to attend this school and be 18 years of age or older unless you are eligible for the Porsche Junior Participation Program. You also must sign the insurance waiver at the track and wear a wristband.
Before you can participate in the driving portion of the school, your car will need to pass a basic tech inspection. Tech inspection will take place each day before start of any driving. Most street cars easily pass the inspection. The owner/driver should do a pre-tech inspection no earlier than 4 weeks prior to the event.
Helmets: Snell-rated SA, SAH, or M2005 or newer helmets are required when driving. Limited loaner helmets are available.
DON'T FORGET your driver's license and PCA Membership card (if you have one).
This is a "Run/Work" event. That means you are required to work a position when you are not driving during the autocross. We are always short handed. So, please, don't be the person who makes it that much more difficult for the rest of us.