What's the worst that could happen?
 

I really want to start getting my feet wet in the racing world but want to limit the damage I could do to the Z until it's paid off. As a result HPDE's are not an option yet as hitting wall or the likes is not a risk I'm willing to take. I was thinking about looking into doing some autocross however.

Now I know these events are generally held in large parking lots, etc., so would it be safe to assume that body/structural damage is extremely unlikely?

Thanks in advance for the useful input.

check with chrisslicks. he 'dances with cones.' :D

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go with an organized club and you can buy insurance for HPDE. Clubs like BMW, PCA, Chin, MVP, etc.

Come on... "Who doesn't like to get sideways? Terrorists, that's who!" :happydance:

Death indeed. Autocross..where medical personnel on-site is an afterthought, yellow flags are for Brazil, and the "officials" are a bunch of douchebags with their hats on backwards and their hands in their pockets going "uh, what do we do now" :shakes head:

Depends on the lot. Go search YouTube for autocross crashes. This is a favorite...



I remember another w/ a 350Z that was hauling *** and flew up over a curb, and into a tree...

PAUSE THAT VIDEO AT 0:18 ----- GUESS WHO!!!!! HAHAHA :tiphat::tup:

I remember coming off track and my buddy who was videoing me told me what happened.

ouch :(

That looked painfully expensive for 30mph crash. What did he do? Gas it and slam on the brakes. That was weird.....Ouch +2

Hahaha, nice eye, Bee!

Those cars easily have enough torque to get you into trouble with all traction control turned off. If you look at his front end, the suspension unloads ABRUPTLY rather than gracefully, so I assume he floored it in a low gear with no traction control turned on, and simply broke it loose. The course itself is straight at that point (correct me if I'm wrong, KB), and I saw no steering, nor brake input. The *** end just came around from what appears to be him simply flooring it.

It actually went into a short slalom (sp?) and then a straightaway to the finish.

It's a Bird.... It's a Plane... It's..... Killer Bee!!!