This mornings epic fail made me buy another 240. :lol not kidding.
I might go up for a little. Hope theres another in the spring.!
i am seriously debating walking out of work, and going to this. i have a new job which i can start at any point in the next 2 weeks, and my current job fucking blows and my boss is an asshole! so i may show up.
did you actually show up?
heard thsi sucked by a few people
Must be from some idiots, because I thought it was cool. A lot of good people there too.
I’d like to hear what sucked about it, other than the long waits during the day.
I thought this wasnt a MoHud event?
a few friends of mine were there and said it was lame .he got in trouble for unintentionaly driftin ,long wates ,and so on
Long waits should have been expected. 70 cars and one peron on the track. evn say everyone took exactly 1 min. thats 1hr 10min til next race
unintentionally drifting???
yeah, but somehow I felt like I was waiting around even more than a MoHud event. Even given that it wasn’t bad considering they hadn’t run an event like this in 40yrs.
I assume you are talking about Ben? There was nothing unintentional about the drifting. I saw him get a talking to after his first run, of course that was after he cleared out a wall of cones and lost his rear bumper. I’ve seen him drift an autox before and this was not up to his normal standard. The course was not ideal for drifting, the gates were too close together to get stuff linked together.
the drift guys were mad because they could not come knock all the cones off the track drifting. I under stand there good drivers and great drifters but its a auto x with not alot of track help. noone wanted to wait 15min for all the cones to be put back up
thats understandable right ?
my runs were 56 seconds :)lol awsome event i got to open my car up and throw it in the turns with out speeding tickets it was a great day
showoff!! lol
how was the speed on this compared to an average mohud event (they all seem to be relatively the same)?
i hit a little over 100mph on the rear streach video’s will be on here soon
damn that ain’t bad for an auto x
yes ,i know ben and dempsey very well
Guys,
One of the reasons for a seemingly long wait between runs was that none of you had to work all day! When’s the last time that happened at an autocross? Maybe you guys need something to do next time. Wanna reset pylons? 
Thanks for the kind words Jeremy. At just 56 seconds you were flying my man!
Mike
A.M.E.C. has done it once again. They pulled off another high quality and highly unique motorsports event today at Albany Saratoga Speedway.
We couldn’t have gotten a better day weather-wise. Crystal clear skies and temps around 50 degrees.
The teams get their cars ready and tech inspected in the morning.
Poughkeepsie Sports Car Club standouts, Mark Van de Carr, Joe Austin, and Dennis Gatto mounting the race rubber on the Spitfire.
A drawing of the course, which included two laps for each run. The slalom was used only on the second lap and whether you entered it on the left or right was optional. The first lap was straight through. Giddyup!
A pic from the grandstands. When’s the last time you had a grand stand to sit in at an autocross?
Bryon Seyfried’s original 240Z in the staging area.
Joe Austin driving Mark Van de Carr’s highly modified Triumph Spitfire, powered by a 4AGE Twin Cam Toyota powerplant.
Check out this bit of nostalgia! Driven all the way up from Long Island, this is Rich Dobbins driving his father’s '64 Studebaker GT Hawk. Four barrels and high compression, gotta love it!
SL racer Phil LePore in his '93 Nissan NX2000 at the starting line.
Eric Roscoe in his turbocharged ice racing buggy heading to the start line. He finished assembling an entire new engine only hours before!
Registrar, and the man responsible for bringing back this event after 41 years, Dave Burnham in his turbocharged '84 Maserati Biturbo.
One of the Saabs from the New Salem Garage stables setting some super quick times.
Hard braking on the back straight.
Ed Tucker in his Porsche 928S.
Fastest time of the day went to Will Schambach in his 1990 turbocharged Flyin’ Miata.
The engine in Will’s car.
A.M.E.C. President John Subik, Dave Burnham, and Darryl Carl getting the trophies ready to hand out.
Dave Burnham announces the awards.
Ready to go to the Malta Diner. Mark Van de Carr’s Spitfire does more than just haul the mail!