 Hello boys and girls, welcome to another video. This time a bit more interesting. No repairs. First autocross of the season, a late one, but still. So this video is a bit longer than usual, but I thought for those who don't know or never been to an autocross, this will show you how the whole, more or less, how the whole day looks like. Now it was a very, very hot day and a humid day and they actually reduced the number of runs on the second half of the day and I didn't even do all of the runs at the end of the day because it was just too hot. I just, I just left basically. But as you can see I am preparing for a track day which is the last event of the season. It's a gingerman raceway in Michigan. That's where I'm going in a few days. And again I'm way behind on this video too, so behind that it's gotten cold actually. It's October now. So guys, subscribe, like, dislike, comment, subscribe, subscribe, subscribe and enjoy the video. Hey guys, we're at a first autocross this year, in a year, 11 months or so. I just registered. The car is somewhat ready. It's a huge parking lot. Well, semi-huge. I'm going to walk the track. Oh, okay, they're calling the novice drivers. So I'm going to walk the track and I'm going to speed through it. Okay, we got to get off. Already confused. Walking and confused already. This is the cone guy. He's going to do a test drive, test run. Oh, I'd say it's a medium-fast track, which is cool for all the bigger cars. This is a Windy City Miara club. All right, so let's walk the track. So this cone here basically means keep to the left. This is, you know, keep or straight through. I'm going to keep walking. And then you can, I guess you can take it wide or break early. It's your choice. Either keep on the right or stay tight on the left. I'm going to make a left. I would probably keep wide over here. Just to cut this corner, keep closer to the left side over here or the right side of the cone. Because the next turn is the right turn. So you want to make it tight, chicane kind of, kind of a wavy straight over here. I'm most likely going to keep tight right here, close to this cone here. It is windy. I have no idea how it's affecting the sound right now. Zolana just felt a rock. Obviously again, the cone on its side, it's basically an arrow. That's where you keep. Now it's good to be either working or resting. Actually working the first time. It's three shifts. You either work, rest or race. So, okay, we're going to again, we're going to swoop around here. So it's a, if you have the option to, well, they choose it for you, but if you have the option to work the first shift, then you can watch the cars and kind of, kind of learn the track from watching. You know, when you're working, you're in the middle of the track and it's much easier to see what others are doing. And then you are, they create new tracks. Like this is probably from last week or two weeks ago. I don't know if you see these lines yet. See, this is way off. We're going to make new lines right over there. And if you're a new man, you're going to get confused. There's just no way about it and go slow, first few times. If you go crazy, you're going to miss the track and get a DNF. So here, a wide area just going to keep going, most likely to keep to the left and then start going straight here or maybe start going to the right because then I see another turn left. Okay, never mind. You see how confusing. If you're watching the cars race from like the stands or whatever, then you're not going to see what the hell they're doing, where they're going. You're not going to learn to track this way. Oh no, I got 10% of battery life left. Not prepared. This is pretty straightforward. A U-turn. These cones show you where to go. So this parking lot, most of them, if you're doing autocross, they're bumpy, so you want to have soft suspension. We got a plane. So here, this is a special for the Miaras. And there is many here today, probably 20, about 75 cars or so. And out of those 75, we have at least 20, maybe even 30 Miaras. And that's the tight part of the course, this entrance here and the exit. Here we have the cars. So a tight right out of this garage is what they call it, or a box, or actually a rectangular in this situation. Are we getting confused or what? No. This is a kind of a long track. It's probably going to be about 50-some seconds for a good time. Low 50s, mid 50s, I'm guessing right now. Another box. And these guys are walking too slow. So this is the edge of the parking lot. And look at all this. So if you knock a cone down, then it's one second. If you just touch it, but it lends on its side, it's one second, one or two seconds, I can't remember. If some of these have boxes drawn around them, if you, even if you knock it over and it flips over 10,000 times and it lends on its feet, then it's no time taken away. As long as it's touching the box, which it was in. If you miss a turn, then that's DNF, obviously. And this would be the finish. And guess what? My car is right at the end of it. I'm going to have to change my parking spot. Do you see it there? Right there. It's looking nice. Here, motorcycle. Yeah, I do. So this is the stopping box. And I guess the timer, they're going to set up the timer. Well, there is a timer over there. No, that's a, where would I miss the timer? They're probably going to still set it up. Yeah. So there is a time, I don't know if you see, there's that red sign there or post with the numbers there. Yeah, they're going to have to set something up over here and that's going to be the finish. So this is my recording studio on wheels. Let's look at the track. Actually, as I am parked, the track is behind me. I switched places because that was the finishing line and I was right in front of it or at the end of it, I should say. So as we were walking, start, swoop around, around, back through the same gate and kind of a fast chicane, I guess. Another turn. This is a kind of a fast to medium track, which should be fun for all of us. They used to do, a few years ago, they used to do these tight courses for the miaras, but then the guys in the Mustangs and Cameros would be mad. So now they're trying to go 50-50 for everybody. Let me show you what the percentage of the ethanol reads right now. We're at 80 degrees so far. It's supposed to get to 90 and we are at 62% ethanol. Could be better, but it's not bad. My water tank in the trunk is full. That's stuck by the way. This blue button here stuck in the STIs, I don't know about the new STIs, but starting in 05 I think had a inner cooler sprayer. But that would, you would press that and it would last for maybe five seconds or so, maybe longer. I can't remember, but I made a switch and you just flipped around and it keeps going until you turn it off. That's the access port, not still from the 2.0, which didn't have a power button. This one does somewhere, yeah, on top right here. Whatever, still keeping this and that's the rocket which we're not going to use today because they will just throw me out because it's way too loud for this. I think they're allowing 100 decibels, but you know there are exceptions. Maybe 105 is the exception. All right guys, I'm going to go walk the track one more time and there's going to be a driver's meeting soon, I suppose. It's mandatory for everybody. If you're new or it's been doing this for 20 years, you got to go to the meeting every time. So the meeting is done. It was too long, 30 minutes or so. I walked the track once before the meeting and I'm slowly cooking. I'm going to be well done by the time this is over and it's just, it's humid. It's bad. Anyways, it's bad for you. Imagine how bad it is for your car, engine, brakes, you know, especially car, especially engine. And good news, I am working first. Then I'm, I forgot, then I'm resting, then I'm racing, which means the second half of the day. I'm doing the same thing. I'm working, resting and racing and well that's, that's good if you want to be competitive and learn the track better because you know you're gonna, I'm gonna be standing out there and watching the cars as I mentioned before. Wood corn is then, they taken whatever. So right now there actually, people are lining up. But if you were to rest on your third shift, for example, then you can just go home, you know, if you don't want to wait for the results, you can always check them online, I think two days later or whatever. And a little correction, it's two seconds if you knock down a cone, not one. All right guys, I'm gonna see you on the track. This is our corner over here. That's the first box. And there's the second box. Right there somewhere, they're gonna do the finish. That's the stop sign there. So we're gonna be watching cars go in. It's the start somewhere there. And then go swoop around, come over here, actually go, here you can see the cone. To them, it's gonna be a right turn and a left turn and into the box, out of the box, right there and left. Just me! All right, let's see. And I gotta report back. Yeah, yeah, can you hear me? All right, I don't want to be the walkie-talkie guy. And we've got a red flag if a car, no, something happens. You wave the flag for the others to slow down. All right, I'm probably not gonna record or talk once the cars get going. I'm just gonna show some cars. That's it. First car, I'm actually by myself. The guys spread out. Usually there's two, three, four guys on one corner. Where's the timer? Oh over there, okay. All right, so right by those two big cones there. So that box, that's just a stopping box. And then you can listen through the walkie-talkie over there by the stop sign for your time. If you don't see, and there we go, I guess he had to turn it on. If you can't see the time, which is 62 seconds, that's over a minute. All right, it's gonna get, I'm telling you, it's gonna be low 50s by the end of the day. So this guy there in the blue shirt, that's my corner guy, and this guy here. Okay, we got a Subru. Oh, he almost missed. No, no, maybe not. We got an F1 car, or it could be an Indy car without the spoiler. I don't know. But it sounds good. He missed the track. Yeah, he missed. DNF, I think. Yeah, he got lost. You see? Oh, two cones there. That's a DNF. That's a miss. He went too wide. See all these people. First runs almost every single, every single guy now except the first Miara. Didn't make a, or making mistakes, except the Miara. And we got a Tesla. You know, I'm laughing over here, but I wonder how I'm gonna do. I haven't done this in 11 months. This car is too quiet for me to record it. All right, this guy knows what he's doing. I think I've seen this guy before. Yeah, everybody's going slow. We got a WRX 07, I think. Yeah, I'm getting confused there, like most. Yeah, everybody's going super slow. So this Miara is officially the fastest car so far. Let's see what he gets now. And finish. 57.4. Next up is a White WRX, which has 58.7 or five. And then another Miara. Not that one. This Corvette, man. Sounds like it's broken. That guy, that's a DNF. Anyways, I'm gonna film the WRX. So over there, right there, at left turn, you can either go tight or wide. Cone might be safe. That's a 57.8. So plus two seconds for that cone. Well, I think he had a better time. 62.1, basically. All right, group number two is lining up, which means somebody's gonna come by and replace me soon. I hope I've been standing here for one hour. Then I'm probably gonna go jump into that lake over there. Just noticed. Little weight reduction. This is my spot. Here is my banana. All right, guys, I don't know if you can hear me. We are lining up. I'm in group three, by the way. That's why it's like 12 o'clock right now. So it took a while. But I got good news. I found my Home Depot racing gloves. I don't remember the track. 55 seconds, which is super slow, but it was a clean run. No cones were harmed during this race. Watching the oil temp. Closely, we're at 205 maybe. Coolant is 207. I'm gonna spray the inner cooler this time. 62. So 62.5. I can't hear the so much noise over here and the clock is not working. But I'm flying the seat. I need to get racing seats or at least one. 62.2. So we are five seconds behind the fastest car. I'm gonna go play with the air pressure. Found the camera under the seat or the phone. It's actually a phone I'm recording from the phone and I did a 58.9 just now. I forgot to hit record on the front camera. I actually heard a rattle. That's where the confusion came from. And I actually pulled off to the parking lot and looked for the rattle. They didn't want something to, you know, go loose and brake on me or what not. And it was the cut piece of rubber hose that came off the top strut bar under the hood. And the inner cooler was rubbing on it. It was rattling. Other than that, oil temp never hit to 20. 215 seems to start at 215. Coolant is 194. Intake temp is 180. Last one, yeah. Thank you. I hope this will not fall out again. Last run number six of the first half. This was 58.9. I can hear the rear diff making a lot of noise. Oil temp 219. Working. The clock is not working so I can't tell you the time. I have no idea what the best is right now. It was 57.1 last time. My best was 58.9. So right now we have group number one going again. So at this time, everybody's going the second time. This is the start of it. And it was six runs. Each group gets six runs. Looked quick. All right guys, this is second half. First run. Only four this time. They decided to cut the day short because of the weather. It is 97. At least that's what my thing says. It's probably 95, 92. I don't know, but it's hard enough to go home. Yep. Thank God. So go this way. Do they say why? During a rerun, not sure why. A DNF. I don't know. I didn't see it. A DNF. I don't know why. It was a DNF. I don't know why. Then the guy told me it's a rerun. I don't care. You gotta say it was a rerun? That guy said it was a rerun, but I don't care. I don't care. Put it down. That's it guys. I'm done.