Equipe Rapide Autocross Series: AX School and Event 4

by Mark Schnoerr, Region Autocross Liason photos by Robert Kirby of Lightspeed Images

The Autocross School, held on Saturday, April 23 at the Burleson High School Stadium parking lot, was sold out again. For the first day of two back-to-back events on the same weekend, Equipe Rapide, our Autocross connection, hosted an autocross driving school that was filled with many runs on slalom, lane change, and skid pad exercises that were made more difficult with spacing, same-side, more lane changes, and skid pad shape changes, to give everyone lots of opportunities to learn how to take control and really drive their cars. Some of the drivers had to look up how to turn off the nannies to make their cars follow their inputs better too. We had a pizza lunch break to allow workers to combine the The Porsche group before the fun commences sections into a full course, and ran fun runs on that until late afternoon. All students received Autocross shirts and a free entry to their next event.

A very quick course was set for AX Event 4 on Sunday, April 24, at the same location. The school participants surprised everyone with how much they had learned the day before, and shuffled the usual results in most classes. We had our first Porsche Vintage Class entry when Aaron Gifford brought his 1957 356 coupe to the school and the autocross. Spectators and participants alike were stunned to see how quick that car was, and loved the frontwheel-up cornering show it puts on, like so many Porsches. Full results for the Porsche classes (nine Porsches out of

Aaron Gifford keeping his ‘57 happy Lone Star Park Event 4 course layout

PV - 'P-Vintage'

Best Time Diff.

1T 57 AARON GIFFORD Black 1957 356 Coupe 44.792 -

PH - 'P-Historic'

Total Diff.

1T 14 Mark Schnoerr Lime Green 914 40.847 2T 914 Sigrid Schnoerr Lime Green 914 41.882 1.035 3 5 Edward Mayo Silver 911S 42.569 0.687 4 9 Julia Underwood Silver 911S 47.808 5.239

P2 - 'PCA 2'

Total Diff.

1T 7 Douglas Edney Black 996 41.312 2 130 Carey Spreen GT Silver Boxster S 41.833 0.521

P3 - 'PCA 3'

Total Diff.

1T 987 Aaron Hutton Silver Cayman S 41.432 2 12 Joe Wilkinson Red Cayman GTS DNS 69 total entries) are posted, including RAW time and Performance Indexed places for the group.

Event 5 took place on May 29, again in Burleson (see coverage in Slipstream Online), and Event 6 will happen on July 31, back at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie.

All registration and information is at the autocross.com web site. Contact me for questions, classing information or details @ AX@ MAVPCA.ORG