Dear Les,

Andrew Jonell · **Joined:** Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:43 pm **Posts:** 1350

Who said you can't autocross in the snow? :twisted:

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:36 pm

I know that wasn't a Triad autocross. Their white chalk lines woudn't show up too well in the snow.

Jordan Normark · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:47 pm

I'll bet the snow plow on the line had FTD.

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:09 pm

I'll bet the worker's on course were really pissed when their replacement showed up late too!

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:09 pm

I think that would an absolute blast to do.....

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:11 pm

RodneyWright wrote:

I think that would an absolute blast to do.....

If all I had to do was drive inside a heated car...maybe, but I'm with Les, damn I hate the cold!

ChrisSuich · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 5:31 pm

I think we have a similar sport down here in the South... it's called Rallycross. :mrgreen:

An oldie but a goodie:

Charlie Guthrie · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2003 8:14 pm **Posts:** 832

Followed a few years later by:

And even one rally-X when the setup day actually was in snow. It really wasn't as much fun as you might think. We had to leave the bus near Brett's house and ferry the cones out in the Subarus. Traction up the hill was a joke and times were slow. It was much more fun the following day after the morning sun melted the snow.
Regards,
Charlie G

steve remchak · **Posted:** Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:06 am

Sounds about to be as much fun as it is to actually live in a place where that nasty shit is commonplace and everybody that works has to actually figure out a way to work each day. For about three months at a time with that horrible frozen crap on the roads for an entire season of cold slippery Hell.............. life sucks.

So much fun.

My senior year of high school was three months without seeing pavement as best as I can remember.

Uphill both ways..................... :lol:

Brett_Murphy · **Joined:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:02 pm **Posts:** 355

When you live in a snow-prone area, you just learn to have fun in it. Otherwise, you crack sometime in late January.

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:09 pm

Brett_Murphy wrote:

When you live in a snow-prone area, you move to somewhere w/o that crap.

FTFY

Les Davis · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:04 pm **Posts:** 2059

Vincent Keene wrote:

Brett_Murphy wrote:

When you live in a snow-prone area, you move to somewhere w/o that crap.

FTFY

After spending nearly 2 weeks in the frozen tundra you guys call Raleigh, I'm happily back in Florida today. Though it was down into the 40s last night to greet me brrrrr, its a remarkably pleasant 71 degrees and sunny today. My poor dried out skin on my hands nose and lips is already recovering from chapped and cracked state 2 weeks in NC left them in. Ahhhh.

As for the autocross in the snow, I'm with the others, that is more like rallycross, and as VK said while the driving part, in a car with a heater, might be fun, the standing around part would suck. No thanks.

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:26 pm

So, is there a story behind this awesome photo or what?

Looks fun.

Andrew Jonell · **Joined:** Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:43 pm **Posts:** 1350

It's from an autocross held last weekend up in Canada. Can't remember which airstrip it was, but it was -18.

Brett_Murphy · **Joined:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:02 pm **Posts:** 355

Vincent Keene wrote:

Brett_Murphy wrote:

When you live in a snow-prone area, you move to somewhere w/o that crap.

FTFY

I live here now, so yeah.

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