2009 NCAC

Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

Triad Sports Car Club Announces Date and Location for 2009 North Carolina Autocross Championship

The 2009 NCAC will be October 10-11th at the Greensboro Coliseum hosted by the Triad Sports Car Club and sponsored by Lotus Cars USA and Sneed’s Speed Shop.

Greensboro, NC (TSCC) July 16, 2009 – Triad Sports Car Club announced today that it will host the 24th Annual North Carolina Autocross Championship (NCAC) October 10-11, 2009 at the Greensboro Coliseum. Lotus Cars USA and Sneed’s Speed Shop have signed on as primary sponsors for the event.

The NCAC is a two-day competition between 4 North Carolina based motor sports clubs (Triad Sports Car Club, Tar Heel Sports Car Club, Highlands Sports Car Club, and the Central Carolinas Region of the Sports Car Club of America) that names individual drivers champions based on SCCA car-classing rules as well as a Champion Club between the 4 competing groups.

In addition to the primary sponsors of Lotus Cars USA and Sneed’s Speed Shop, Grassroots Motorsports Magazine and Lotus of Durham will support the event as well providing prizes for participants.

Registration for the event will be $55 for members of any of the four NCAC clubs and $65 for non-members. This fee includes entry into the 2-day event, event t-shirt, and lunch each day. Triad Sports Car Club is currently working to reserve preferred rate hotel rooms close to the coliseum for out-of-town participants.

Drivers are encouraged to register online at http://www.auto-x.com after August 1st. Additional information about the event including host hotels will also be posted to the forums section of auto-x.com. Any questions may be directed to this forum as well.

Lotus USA http://www.lotuscars.com/
Sneeds Speed Shop http://www.sneedspeedshop.com/index.html
GRM http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/
Lotus Of Durham http://www.lotusofdurham.com/

Limited Sponsorship opportunities are still available.
To Sponsor this event contact Anthony Hodges at lildrummer82@yahoo.com

Stephen Westerfield · **Posted:** Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:34 am

Sweet. While I know everyone doesn't like the coliseum, I think it's a decent lot and a great location for the event. I can't wait. Hopefully a bunch of folks can make it out to represent our club.

BriceJohnson · **Joined:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:33 am **Posts:** 2230

definitely in. I love Greensboro (other than the stupid $5 parking fee)

JasonWatts · **Posted:** Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:10 pm

Stephen Westerfield wrote:

Sweet. While I know everyone doesn't like the coliseum, I think it's a decent lot and a great location for the event. I can't wait. Hopefully a bunch of folks can make it out to represent our club.

never been... why is the location disliked?

Donnie Barnes · **Posted:** Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:00 pm

JasonWatts wrote:

Stephen Westerfield wrote:

Sweet. While I know everyone doesn't like the coliseum, I think it's a decent lot and a great location for the event. I can't wait. Hopefully a bunch of folks can make it out to represent our club.

never been... why is the location disliked?

It's just that the lot is kind of small and the grip isn't great. But air conditioned bathrooms with running water and soap make up for a lot of ills, IMHO.

--Donnie

Stephen Westerfield · **Posted:** Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:04 pm

Registration is open. Link at the bottom of the page.

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:24 pm

rats, can't make this one, off to Vegas for some time out. The big plus is the Barrett-Jackson is there the same weekend. THAT should be fun...

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:39 am

Anyway to attend on Sunday only??? or does it have to be 2 days or nothing.

Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

You can run either day, but for championship points, you'll have to run both days. If they're doing it as in years past.

Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:52 pm

I'm registered. Just got to figure out what to do with the kids that weekend now. Maybe they can take a trip to Grandma and Grandpa's house for the weekend.

Chuck Frank · **Posted:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:54 pm

I'm not sure why people consider that lot small? (Donnie, not taking a shot at you, honest question.) The courses I have run there have typically been as long as or longer than most of the other NC venues, and the squarish shape of the lot and modest elevation changes allows for more features (real sweepers!) and line choice than the typical runway venue. I will give you that some courses there have not made the best use of the space by adding painfully tight elements, but IMHO that is a problem of course designer selection, not the space. I find the grip better than Sanford and possibly a little better than Danville, it does not pull up grit either. The proximity of the site is another + in my book. Biggest - is that the collesium has been charging the AXers a parking fee lately, it used to be if you arrived before 9AM the collection booth were not manned so there was not a fee. I never tried it, but I think you could also get a free return pass if you needed to leave during the event (gas, food, etc)as well. I might suggest that the powers that be try to negotate removing that fee for the AXers, after all it seems redundant to have to pay to park in the lot we are already paying to rent.
In any case I look forward to running there.

Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

Chuck Frank wrote:

I find the grip better than Sanford and possibly a little better than Danville

Can you pass me what you're smoking? You know, for my glaucoma?

Chuck Frank · **Posted:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:00 pm

I guess it's my DL1 that's smoking the good stuff? the G forces recorded are as high or higher at GC as at Sanford and Danville for similar radius turns. I tend to believe it over my butt dyno tho.
Maybe it's just that yours is not calibrated for sweepers since all we run otherwise is "slalom, slalom, offset, offset, pivot turn, slalom, offset, slalom, tight offset, finish" (arranged in any order/quantity of your choosing)
We run a lot of other features at national events and outside the state venues, and find them much more challenging and interesting so I welcome the chance to run something other than an out and back all transitions course.

Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

Dick Rasmussen said several years ago that Greenville had as high level of grip as Laurinburg in Miles' Corvette using data too. I don't buy it.

Chuck Frank · **Posted:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:15 pm

Well you can believe an instrument or your butt, that's your choice to make.
I find the instrument more accurate that's all.
It may also have to do with that the Miata is a transitioning fool and you have yours set up just to maximize that (I would too if that is all I ever ran) and it doesn't handle high G sweepers very well?

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