August Autocross Report

With the SCCA classification, the Cayman runs in B Street class. 
As the only car in my class, I guess I'm a class winner!

This past Sunday I headed up to Winston-Salem Fairgrounds for an autocross event with the Triad Sports Car Club. We've done a few events with this club over the years, and they do a good job of running events and having a great time. They are not formally a part of the Sports Car Club of America, but like most clubs they follow the SCCA rules and car classes. This put me in the B Street (AKA: BS!) class, and we ended up with 113 total drivers competing! 

My first 2025 event with the Triad Sports Car Club, so there's a new 25 TSCC sticker on my helmet. I'm pretty sure that helmet stickers are like the ones on your car: each one is worth 5 more horsepower. 

This was my first event since replacing some power steering lines, so I am also happy to report that the car ran smoothly all the way to the fairgrounds (about 2 hours one way,) during the event, and wee wee wee all the way home! Since it was another Sunday event, I would normally have tuned in on the radio during the drive home for a NASCAR race, but this weekend's race was a Saturday night race up in Richmond. Oh well, there were plenty of other radio stations too!

Pro Tip: ALWAYS walk the course before the event so you don't get lost out there in all those cones. 

 

At the end of the four runs for the day, I only managed the 68th fastest time. However, the SCCA also provides multipliers to each class so that you can compare yourself to cars in other classes. Known as PAX time, my PAX placing was slightly better, 59th place. Nothing to write home about, but far from last I guess!

The Porsche club will also be competing at the fairgrounds later this year, so hopefully this also gave me some more practice on the basic figure 8 layout, which is dictated by the pavement available. 

These Lotus cars always look cool. 

Nice Camaro with tons of aero stuff. 

A classic 70s Porsche 911!

These fake "sponsor" brands are hilarious of you know what they are based on. Instead of Hot Wheels, this is "SHOT WHEELS."

There were a couple of karts racing, and they were fast! The stand on wheels makes it way easier to work on these guys, they are so low to the ground. 

The TRIAD club has helmets to loan if you don't own one. This makes it easy for first timers to come out and give Autocross a try. 
I was trying to think of a funny story about this shot, that these drivers are very competitive, and if you run over any cones they chop off your head and put it up on a cone outside their city gates. 

Autocross a truck? Sure!

Something I've never seen before, a club with their logo on the worker's vests, very nice!

The GMC Syclone was a 1991 only model, with a turbo V6 with 280hp and all wheel drive. They only made 2,998 of these!