Race Time
I sold my Sentra in January... and since then planned to buy a cheap little car to AutoX in since my Altima is too big and slow to be competitive. Well its June now and I still haven't found a car and two big race events passed already. Well this weekend was a race at a cool race park, the Knoll-Gas Motorspeedway. I didn't want to miss out on the event... first the idea to race my friend Jen's car came up... I wasn't able to get her a spare set of rims/tires in time for race day. SO... second idea was to run my Altima. Needless to say I made the decision to run the Altima.

Sunday we rolled up to Martin, MI where the race would take place. It was rainy... there was a little hope of sun but we rolled on anyways. We ended up with rain pretty much the whole time, usually it was light, but on occasion it would get pretty rough. Heather came as well and enjoyed reading a book and did take some photos for us during the brief sunshine we managed to get.

We ran in G-Stock with the big Altima. Nine cars were signed up for our class and some fairly good cars in the group (some VWs and a Subaru). It was a totally different experience running such a large car, and man my first couple runs I was hitting cones all over the place with the rear end of car... I am not used to driving something so big, especially not around an AutoX course.

My 4 cylinder 2.5 liter Altima on crappy street tires.

Look at her... next to a VW GTI, MR2, 325i, Porsche...

The rain actually helped us... since I was running all season tires.

Going through Salom #4. It was a very tight course.

The first couple runs I hit tons of cones... but after a while I got used to driving the big body car.

Great pic of Jen racing through turn #2.

The day ended rather well though... both Jen and I got a hang of driving the car through the rain and tight cones. I ended in 4th out of 9, and Jen in 7th. Maybe next race I can hook Jen up with some tires and we can take her car out, that would be fun!

It was a fun day... I was surprised at how many people asked me about my Sentra, I wasn't aware how well known she was in my group. I did get a lot of tips and leads from people on some good cars I could get... its such a hard decision!

Hopefully next race I will be in something more sporty... but for now I broke the seal on the race bug for 2007 and also didn't do too shabby. I managed to take out a VW Jetta and a V6 Contour, both cars with tons more horsepower and sporty suspensions.

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