Paul_in_DC

On my last outing with old tires and wet pavement on a tight course I learned a lot about being smooth. I hit a few cones during the day, on the right in right-hand turns. Actually I take that as a good thing, since my habit is to give them too wide a berth. This is my first attempt at making an Autocross Video.

Paul_in_DC

Hitting a cone costs your time (1 second?) but drifting doesn't do your time any good either, since it scrubs off speed. But autocross if fun however you do it.

Skythe

ever play PGR?

Paul_in_DC

PGR? No - what is it?

CRX Millennium

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PGR = Project Gotham Racing (power of Google)

A cone is 2sec penalty, universal I believe. So in a sport where win and loss is decided by thousands of a second, it's huge.

Great 1st attempt! Though was the IS/VR (Image Stabilization/Vibration Reducer)
turned on? My head got dizzy after watching =)

Skythe

Project Gotham Racing, it's a racing game for Xbox. In part of the game you have to do laps around tracks with cones setup, it's setup just like autocross. You get points (Kudos) for not hitting cones, drifting, and driving fast. It's a game that's gotten a lot of hype becuase of its graphics and gameplay.

Paul_in_DC

Thanks. Yes, Image Stabilization was on, but in my first go-around at making a camera mount, the bar was thin aluminum and flexed too much. I've got a heftier bar now that should (knock on wood) minimize that bouncing you see in the clip.

I used the setup similar to the one in this thread: https://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php...6&postcount=86

CRX Millennium

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That's what I had too. It still hurts thinking about the extra mounting bolt hole I had to drill thru the rear upper sub-frame. My miniDV is fairly light, the stand-up kind, not big brick style, though the aluminum bar would vibrate still. I'm sure having two bungee cords to form a triangle between bar and front seatbelt floor slider rails would stabilize the movement.

Gonna try shooting from the rear wheel fender like TeamWTF for kick next time

BigOLundh

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Depending on the course lay out... knowing how to drift can be very useful

Worst racing game ever. Every version in the series... horrible. I think the only thing worse would be the ridge racer series.

I think TeamWTF also may do that because it allows him to see how far from the cones he was.

My plan was to use an RC helicptoer and videotape my runs from a birds eye view. It was that or RC blimp.... but i dont think any league will ever let me do that.

-hS

CRX Millennium

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If you ever do, there is a line of people wanting to layover cone locations with racing line drawn from GPS using DAQ. It will be coolest thing, seeing how far/close one is from the cone.

BigOLundh

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I have already said too much.
The birds eye view thing was my key plan to take over the world of autocrossing. Well, that and strippers... awww, once again i'm giving away too many secrets.

SILENCE!!!

BigOLundh

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Seriously tho... all you would have to is have a sensor in the center of the cone, and sensors on each of your fenders... now a days this technology is getting cheaper, and not so hard to work with.

-hS

Paul_in_DC

With a sensor in each cone, you'll need a lot of spares as they get crushed.