[DML] Re: Autocross in St. Louis the weekend of the Expo

[Mark Noeltner <mnoeltne@xxxx>]

You can run the DeLorean in a Stock class, but it's due to the "catchall"
that throws it into Super Stock, so it's still against the 'Vettes and the
late turbo RX-7's.

I've been autocrossing for a number of years, but just got the DeLorean
this year. We've run it once. It did better than I would have thought, but
still got it's rear kicked pretty good. Of course, we were running it in
TOTALLY stock conditions on the Yokohama street tires. Plus I started the
tire pressures off a little on the high side so it was really squirley. My
wife drives also, and she spun it completely around when she got the car
over-ocillating in a slalom!

My wife and I have decided that we aren't going to run it often, but it IS
fun to take it out occasionally. We're hoping to get enough DeLoreans out
on the 10th that they'll give us our own class so that nobody has to worry
about the other cars.

Mark N
VIN 6820

At 11:58 PM 9/17/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Mark,
>
>I've been autocrossing for a couple years now but I've never raced the 
>DeLorean. (I have an open-wheel formula car I use for the autocrosses). 
> I will tell you this much, if you don't get your own class, expect to be 
>beat horrendously by the 'vettes. For some reason, the SCCA classes the 
>DeLorean in a street-prepared class only. So not only will you be racing 
>against 'vettes, you'll be racing against modified 'vettes. I will say one 
>thing...if you intend to run your car, make sure your oil is topped up. My 
>DeLorean used to have an oil leak and I remember a few times when taking 
>turns at far less than autocross speed, the oil pressure would drop. NOT 
> a good thing to have happen!
>
>I guess it's kinda gratifying to see the DeLorean classed with all the 
>Corvettes, Panteras and Ferraris though. The DeLorean is in B Street 
>Prepared (BSP). I've searched various SCCA results pages and I've never 
>been able to find a DeLorean listed.
>
>Good luck with the autocross and post a link to the results!
>
>--Rob Hook
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