Okay, I'm faced with the fact that the local club meets up on Saturdays and Sundays. Due to religious commitments, I can't make it to any Sunday races. Saturday races are once every four months. I want to hone my skills, but unless I skip out to make it to Sunday events, I'm faced with the dubious and questionable practice of finding an unused stretch of road and setting up my own mini-course to run until I decide to call it quits or the cops bust me. Hawai'i has a few shut-down military bases, and they're filled with roads that no one uses anymore. Residential areas are at least a mile away or more and the police don't show up at all, that I know of. I would have my wife with me, acting as a cone-fetcher and spotter for whatever rare vehicle decided to travel out that way and I would try to set up the cones so anyone wishing to use the road would'nt have to worry about hitting one; I would have a simple Slalom and maybe two gates.

Questions/comments greatly appreciated!

 

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i think the public opinion would be obvious, even if personal opinions differ... esp when the majority of people on this board have never been to hawaii.

 

Change religions

 

You'll want to operate in stealth mode: make sure your car is quiet. Put a stock style or other generic muffler on there if you have to. If people hear sustained engine wailing in one place, they're gonna get suspicious or annoyed and call it in. Same goes for screeching tires, try not to do it.

Go out early Saturday morning, right when the sun comes up. You'll be out of traffic, most people will be sleeping and won't notice what you're doing, and if the car is quiet you won't wake them. You may be less likely to run into a cop patrol also; at that time the night shift may be returning to base (don't know how it is in your area).

Come up with a good story to tell the cops if they do show up. Don't say you're practicing racing, tell them your car has a clunking sound during hard cornering, and you're trying to determine where it's coming from...... Explaining the cones lying around will be tough though!

 

From what my buddy tells me, he's been out that direction - old shut-down military air field, some of the roads are just plain not used - no one has any reason to use those particular streets anymore. He goes out there to take snapshots of his truck and he's also considering buying a few cones and making practice runs down that way. I'll see what happens to him. Besides all of that, I still would need a dozen cones, and those things are pricy!

 

I used plastic ice cream buckets (gallon size). I eat ice cream all the time, so I've usually got a large supply of empty containers on hand. You can use anything similar that is light and soft enough it won't harm the car. Paint 'em a bright color if you need to.

 

buy a go kart.. pretty fun and fast if you get the racing ones

 

Become Catholic then go to church Saturday night. Or skip church altogether and confess your sin the following weekend when there isn't a real autocross.

Pat

 

Sorry, convictions run pretty thick for me. Go karts. HA! I've heard a few of them can pull like, two gees of Lateral right out of the box.