Parking lot challenges
09-26-2011, 07:48 PM
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Parking lot challenges
Question for the autocross group. Our corvette club is doing a poker run and we were trying to come up with a parking lot challenge (not an autocross) that would be fun for the drivers to participate in. I saw the SEMA car challenge on Speed and they did a start and stop challenge (drive up to a certain speed, then hit the brakes and stop before hitting the cones. Score closest distance to the cones). Has anyone done something like this or some other easy driving challenge? Just looking for ideas. Thanks 
09-26-2011, 08:49 PM
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I have used the start stop exercise in several autocross driving schools I have run. I set it up over a distance of a couple hundred feet with cones every 10 paces (about 25 ft) along the side so people had a way to judge how far they had driven. Then a set of cones across the course. Each participant would get three runs. First they would stop too short, second most stopped too long and on the third try they got pretty close.
Using the exercise as a part of the competition you will have to have a way to stop sand bagging or you will have somebody drive 3 mph through the course and just touch the brakes to rest the front bumper against the cones at the end.
If you tell them they have to get to a certain speed you will need to have a way to determine if they got to that speed.
Maybe the best way would be to judge it in two ways. Shortest time from start to end coupled with closest to the cones without going over them.
Bill
Using the exercise as a part of the competition you will have to have a way to stop sand bagging or you will have somebody drive 3 mph through the course and just touch the brakes to rest the front bumper against the cones at the end.
If you tell them they have to get to a certain speed you will need to have a way to determine if they got to that speed.
Maybe the best way would be to judge it in two ways. Shortest time from start to end coupled with closest to the cones without going over them.
Bill
09-28-2011, 02:54 PM
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If people are leary of spinning their tires you could do something like a FunKhana where you have them drive the car from a start position, get out of the car and perform some ridiculous act, swap drivers and then drive to the finish line. Time the whole thing with lowest time, after penalties are assessed winning. Penalties could be any number of things such as not closing car doors when they get out or maybe not leaving them open. Again some ridiculous things that get people laughing.
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