For the first time in a while I had an autocross I really felt good about. Ran something like a 33.5 with a passenger on my first run, then a 33.0 on my second, but I thought I could pick up a couple tenths in the last slalom. The third run I stopped looking ahead at one point and just couldn't make the last slalom, so I blew that one. The fourth run I hit the very first slalom cone on the first slalom. :-( After that I really just stopped caring. Unfortunately, that lack of caring kind of pushed me into one of the uber-cones at a reasonably high speed and left quite the cone mark.
It also knocked loose my passenger-side fender liner, which had just been resting in place to some extent (it had been knocked out at a PIR event several months back). It didn't actually fall down during the run, so it was still in place during the tire change, but once I was on the road it fell down and slowly ground itself to death. Now there's a nice big hole in it right underneath my air filter, and the two front mounting points for it are both torn, so I think it's finally time for a new one.
Fortunately my time gave me a pretty decent pax score, just a couple tenths out of #2 pax (with lots of good drivers out of town, of course). Hopefully I can do ok the last event and end up with a decent series score, but I'm still way outclassed by a majority of the drivers in SPM.
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