CAR CONTROL CLINIC Sunday May 20th, 2012 Pomona Fairplex

[ViperX]

Hey Albert,

Glad you can make this one.

Tips, yes.  It's best to try them on before buying as fit is important.  They need to be very snug, enough so that they don't slip around on your head, but not tight.  I prefer open face most of the time along with a good pair of impact resistant driving glasses as it's just more comfortable for me.  Open face should be fine for Auto X everywhere and most track events.  A closed face provides protection against flying debris better than an open face which shouldn't be a problem at an Auto X.

Get a Snell 2010 rated helmet (car helmet rated for fire) as it will be accepted longer.  Bell, Simpson and other name brands are all pretty good.  Should be about $300.00 for a good "enthusiasts" helmet, give or take.

You probably don't have much time to do this, but I'd recommend Sube Sports in Huntington Beach, CA.

http://www.subesports.com/products/cat/Helmets

They have a good selection, fair prices and Chad is an ex-racer, so he knows his stuff.

Tell him I sent you.

Dan  <2

[Jay M]

Do you know if we can do the auto-X with the top down?  One mistake that I made when I had the seats re-shaped was that I didn't notice that they raised them enough that I have very little headroom when I'm wearing a helmet.

~Jay

[PCH VIPER]

Hi Jay,
Top down is fine.   I'll have my AC on and the windows up  <11

[Derek]

1 day away!

[Speedtactics]

Thanks for everyone's help on this one! Laura and I had a great time photos to follow soon >u

[1HOTACR]

Thanks for everyone's help on this one! Laura and I had a great time photos to follow soon >u

  PICS, PICS, PICS...WE WANT PICS >u >u >u >g

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[JonathanL]

That was a blast. I hope everyone that took videos/pics posts them up.

The last rotation of the day,  the group I was in basically turned it into a doughnut competition. There were some good ones!

[Ryan]

Yeah! That was super fun. I can't wait until the next event like this.

I think I had a pretty good AutoX time too, 55.xx seconds. Do we have a list of the Auto X times?

[AlbertFattal]

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[Derek]

Had a great time! no wait i had the time of my life! can't tell you guys and gals how long ive been wanting to take my viper out and just spin it around and learn to drift a little. I had to agree with jon the last group we were in did turn into a doughnut/burnout/drift fest! had so much fun sliding around those turns!

BIG thanks to so many people! Lance, all the guys that help get everything set up and going, you guys/gals are a great group a peeps! I really appreciate all that you do. I wish i could have made it out saturday to help a bit but due to having to work i was unable to make it out.

Id really like to give a special thanks to bob and his wife who were in course 1 if i remember right the big circle course. i was in the last group to do it and i ending up being the last one who ran the course trying to get my drifting/ sliding skills down. after i was all done sliding around/drifting. he came up to me and gave me a solid 20 mins or so of 1 on 1 training on how to enter and exit the turns and getting that back end to break loose and control it around a turn. ive still got a lot to learn but his time was very much appreciated! And i learned a great deal just from his 1 on 1 session.

ill get some pics and videos up within the next few days to week. got a very busy week ahead of me and should have been in bed 2 hrs ago lol.

anyways thanks again everyone! Really looking forward to the next event!

[10 BANGR]

Had a blast spinning my wheels all day. Thank you Kouchi family and all that helped organizing this event.
I actually came home with a 2nd place trophy on the stock class Auto-x   >1<2
Really enjoyed the doughnut factory too. <1

[T26]

That was crazy fun.  Thank you to everyone that put this on - I don't think we fully realize the amount of work it took to do this event, but it was fantastic!