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I once found this magical line on a course.
Only to discover after 3 DNFs that I’d been skipping a gate.
It started when I got my Formula 500 out of shape…….the car basically slide way to the right and since it lined up with the next gate my brain cemented that line into my memory.
In 37 years I’ve never DNFd without instantly knowing it.
Tom1200 said:
I once found this magical line on a course.
Only to discover after 3 DNFs that I’d been skipping a gate.
It started when I got my Formula 500 out of shape…….the car basically slide way to the right and since it lined up with the next gate my brain cemented that line into my memory.
In 37 years I’ve never DNFd without instantly knowing it.
Sounds like the one event where I kept getting DNFs and could not for the life of me figure out what was going on. I even reviewed on board video to see if I could see it and I had no clue where it was. Luckily I had a buddy who happened to be working that corner and he texted me about it. One cone on a turn around had a really really big spacing and blended into the cone wall behind it.
I missed the same gate at the Challenge autocross 3 runs in a row a few years back. I did not make the course walk and it showed. The course felt unusually fast in that section too.
It all made more sense when I figured out what I was doing wrong.
In reply to stafford1500 :
Yes my missed gate was also magically fast……doh!!
In reply to stafford1500 :
It’s always after your runs where you realize that the course seemed a bit too fast/open/easy, right?
Sunday’s autocross, I may have DNFd every run, I haven’t bothered reading the results. Between the heat and a new location, short course where everything came up super fast vs a decent flow. Meh, I still had fun driving and hanging out with friends, and managed to stay hydrated.
I’ve been off course for all five runs, more than once, not even making the same mistake each time. All of them were at the same venue as the picture. Fortunately, it’s been a few years since then.
