{"id":53,"date":"2005-10-22T22:28:32","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T02:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2005\/10\/22\/end-of-the-autocross-season\/"},"modified":"2005-10-22T22:28:32","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T02:28:32","slug":"end-of-the-autocross-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2005\/10\/22\/end-of-the-autocross-season\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the Autocross Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the last autocross of the season for the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boston-bmwcca.org\/\">Boston BMW CCA<\/a>. Temperatures were only 35 degrees at the airfield this morning, making for some warm clothing and a complete lack of tire grip! I nearly spun twice, consecutively in the same spot. It really is a amazing the difference cold temperatures have on your tires&#8217; traction.<\/p>\n<p>\nI didn&#8217;t bother with the video today. It was yet another very fast course, with some shifting in to 3rd in sections, and another where many shifted into first; both are unusual in most courses. I&#8217;ve enjoyed the course layouts throughout the year, although the MINI has much less advantage in them than it would have in a normal parking lot course (ours is on a 3-angle airstrip). This is the first year I&#8217;ve ever regularly autocrossed, previously I did it twice a year. It means I would be eligible for a trophy, but unfortunately I&#8217;m nowhere good enough due to the stiff competition in the club. But it&#8217;s well worth the $25 price for a day of learning your car and having a ton of fun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMy snow tires (new for this year, I can&#8217;t wait to try them) will hopefully go on this week. And come late January or February, I will be back with the BMWCCA, ice racing. I&#8217;m told it&#8217;s even more fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the last autocross of the season for the Boston BMW CCA. Temperatures were only 35 degrees at the airfield this morning, making for some warm clothing and a complete lack of tire grip! I nearly spun twice, consecutively in the same spot. It really is a amazing the difference cold temperatures have on [&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-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}