{"id":24,"date":"2005-04-30T18:34:13","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T22:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2005\/04\/30\/first-autocross-of-the-season\/"},"modified":"2005-04-30T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T22:34:13","slug":"first-autocross-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2005\/04\/30\/first-autocross-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"First autocross of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my first autocross of the season with the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boston-bmwcca.org\/\">Boston chapter of the BMW Car Club of America<\/a>. I did two last year at the end of the season, and this year hope to make it to most of them and possibly compete.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately mid-morning it started raining. That made the track slick&#8230;but still tons of fun! I couldn&#8217;t resist capturing this poor guy with his roofless race-prepped Miata (who&#8217;s plate is PRA 4 SUN!):<br \/>\n<center><img SRC=\"http:\/\/photos9.flickr.com\/11659710_c11a7e57ce_m.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Funny thing was, despite the rain getting continuously stronger during the day and the pavement going from damp to flooded, my last run was my best time. I think the wet conditions actually made me concentrate on driving smoother. It also goes to show my assumption was right, my new Yoko AVS-ES100 tires are amazing in the rain!<\/p>\n<p>There were a total of six MINIs there, most of which were regulars. If you&#8217;re not familiar with AutoX, I highly recommend it. It&#8217;s a great way to have a ton of fun driving your car without any dangerous speeds or obstacles. There are several clubs in each area of the country that do it. I like the BMW CCA as not only are they the best organized, but you also get more runs than other clubs and at $25 they are also one of the cheapest! And for you locals I strongly recommend you join us next time: May 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my first autocross of the season with the Boston chapter of the BMW Car Club of America. I did two last year at the end of the season, and this year hope to make it to most of them and possibly compete. Unfortunately mid-morning it started raining. That made the track slick&#8230;but still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}