Reply to "My first autocross"

I meant what I said about participants with no sense of self-preservation helping to kill autocrossing. I ran our Club's Tech inspections during that time (sometimes 200 cars per event) and the s... that showed up on the pre-grid would bring tears to the eyes of any motorhead. I'm not talking about detail-infractions either!

Sections of old garden hose spliced into high-pressure oil coolers using iron pipe fittings, 4 lug nuts on 5-lug wheels, slick racing tires that were audibly leaking air during inspection, brake hoses that had been dragging on oversized tires so long you could count the layers of cord in the hose construction. One guy showed up with a helmet his father had used when he was single. I pointed out that our regs said it had to have a Snell sticker-date and his helmet was from before the time Pete Snell was killed while wearing one just like it.... I should have had a voice recorder for the excuses I heard for the awful car conditions. And the scary part was, it was a 40 mile freeway drive out to the site and these rolling trash heaps were not trailered.