practicing for AutoXing?

hey i'm thinking about trying AutoXing and maybe even get into it seriously afterwards. I'm just wondering, where do you guys practice? Would you have to do it in a parking lot sort of like drifting or are there certain places that you can acutally practice at?

your first year of autoX = practice

after that, every event you are in = practice


as far as car handling, every time you get in your car you should be practicing. make sure that you can place the car anywhere on the road you want it to be (and keep it there). when you are stopping, know exactly how much pressure you need to put on the pedal to stop (in whatever given distance you are trying to) without changing that pressure... just little things like that. the better you know your car, the more you can explore what your car can do when you are on the course.

but, go for it! autoX is the best way to explore what your car (and you as a driver) can do.

that helped alot, it really did but i still want to know, where do people practice at? Is it like drifting where you sort of have to practice it underground?

from what i've seen and the people i know that do it, there isn't very much illegal practicing. it's the time you put in at events that makes you a better driver *aside from what i've previously said*. that's why everyone seems to obsess over "seat time". most of the driving you would do in autoX would be pretty dangerous on the street...


autoX is for enhancing your car control abilities, it trains the driver to know what the car can do *in safe conditions*.

to answer your question: people practice on "practice days" - there are normally one or two a year in any given region. you get a few more runs than a normal race day. what you haev to remember; an event isn't necessarily a competition.

and AutoX has NOTHING to do with the retarted fanboy "Sport" called drifting.
AutoX is about actually drivng your car well.

like I said on another thread. I'm not a fan of watching a "10 second car". I love to push myself as a driver and see how far I can push my abilites.

ummm.... ok?

ummm.... ok?


its so funny i was thinking of the exact same reply

Evolution Driving School.

Thats where I practice. As a matter of fact we just lost our venue because a bunch of ricer drifter wanna b's. It seem a couple showed at our practice day on Saturday. Saturday evening when everyone was gone they came back with a bunch of stolen trays from McDonalds. They put them under thier rear wheels set their hand brake and proceeded to drift around the lot with their FWD cars. The rent a cops chased them away and them the owners of the lot (local police) said that was it no more SCCA it is attracting trouble.

So instead of driving 2 hours to my nearest Autocross I have to drive 3.

I am not Autocrossing this year. I have decided to only take Evolution Schools and attend major events like the National tour and possibly the National runoffs.

I get more runs in a single Evolution School that a whole year of Autocrossing.

man i hate posers...because of them insurance rates go up and we get a bad rep trough sheer asociation....


btw how can you find those evolution schools...i want to see if there are any in my area

btw how do they differ from the other schools...do they specialise in autox?

Yes they specialize in Autocross. My transformation from their school was noticable to everyone at the local venue. I went from being a pretty fast driver to one of the fastest. I thank them for that.

I also credit them for my success at Mazda-Rev-it-up in Miami where I took 3rd place out of 1500 people. That was more of a win to me than any SoloII competition. We all drove the same car on the same course. It was purely a driver competition.

The best money I have ever spent on Autocrossing.

Here is a link to their website:

http://www.autocross.com/evolution/

thanks i'll check their site...maybe they'll have something closer to me so i can go take some courses

and AutoX has NOTHING to do with the retarted fanboy "Sport" called drifting.
AutoX is about actually drivng your car well.

whats so retarded about drifting? you don't think drifters drive their car well? I'm not trying to like bash you or anything but drifting is very complex and requires tons of car control and the ability to stay calm, smooth, and focused under abnormal conditions. I'm no autocross guy, I'd like to get into it though, thats why I've been researching it here for the past few weeks, but anyways, just because its all mainstream and popular doesn't mean its retarded, believe me, the people that acctually drift and aren't doing it cuz "its the cool new fad" don't like all the posers anymore than you do, infact we probably like them less.

How much are the evolution courses? I looked at their website but don't see it listed. Incidenly they are in my home town (Virginia Beach) this weekend! Doesn't give me any time to prepare! I'd like to go to this before I go to Mazda Rev It Up. Might have to give them a call tomorrow.

The courses vary by phase, I believe from friends taking the courses that approx 200 dollars is for the first phase. Im not sure about the others.

I was going to do the evolution phase 1 course this friday, april 30th, but then my car got hit in march and messed up my plans... *sigh* theres always next year!

As someone said to get practice in autocrossing your first year is your practice. There is no legal way to do it not during an event. Too much risk involved.

Anyway your first year is a learning experience, try to get as much seat time as you can. Whether it be in your car, a passenger in your own car, or a passenger with another driver (preferably with an experience autocrosser).

I would hold off on an Evolution School your first year, since at an Evo school you should know your car and what it's capable of and should not what settings are the best for your car already. The Evo school will capitalize/polish your driving skills.

I know my first Evo school I took back in 2002 since I wasn't getting any faster compared to my peers. I was already autocrossing for 5 years before that. Took the Evo school and knocked 2 seconds off my times from my first baseline run in the morning til the afternoon runs. Best $225 spent.

Realize there is also Phase II, III and the GEEZ school.

and AutoX has NOTHING to do with the retarted fanboy "Sport" called drifting.
AutoX is about actually drivng your car well.

fanboy "sport" drifting is a widely used technique that is used in circut racing, higher speed autocrossing tracks, and any other automotive sport that requires turning in some direction other than just left (ie NASCAR) a top competition drifter could make it throught a winding road course in his car just as fast as a top autoXer could make it throught there in his car, only difference is the autoXer would try not to have the wheels brake loose and would keep pace with series of skillful turns and gear shifts and braking...where as the top comp drifter would make it with the wheles rarely ever having full traction and the engin redlineing most of the time and woul navigate the turns throguh strategic skilled balence of throttle motions and brakeing...Drifting takes just as much askill as autocrossign and i like/love both...