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Just found this in a back issue of the Economist: On a wheel and a prayer.

The online article doesn't have the picture that first drew my attention to the story, but in the print edition you can see a photo of what I think is a mid-eighties BMW M5, in bright red, doing a sharp turn, and a bunch of cones.

The writer does not call it "autocross" in the article, but rather "a time trial around an obstacle course made of traffic cones in one of the few places with a big enough expanse of flat concrete: a vast hangar that normally houses a traders' market and is empty only on Fridays[...]." Sounds pretty much like autocross to me!

That's pretty cool.

That reminds me: An NCSU grad student from Jordan, Walid Mihyar (spelling is approximate), autocrossed with us for a few years in the 1990s. As I recall, he ran a Toyota Starlet, with early 80's Celica GT-S wheels on the rear that gave it a considerable amount of rake. We were certain he would roll it, but he never did.

After finishing his studies he went home Jordan. On a visit back to Raleigh several years later he told us that he had become a motorsports advisor to the late King Hussein, and presented the club with a medal from the Royal Jordanian Auto Club.

Let's see if Triad can match that!

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