So, today i thought i would write a small piece about the motorsport i'm participating in: Autoslalom.
In other parts of the world it may allso be known as Autocross, but in Norway we call it Autoslalom.
I started with the sport in 2012 when a colleuge of mine told me about it.
What is Autoslalom? Well the name kind of say it. It is basically slalom with a car.
The track is set up with cones, and the goal is to get trough the combinations as fast as possible without hitting the cones or driving on the wrong side of a combination. We mostely use gocart tracks, but a couple of laps are held on big parking lots or industrial areas. The cones are set up in different slalom combinations, turns and roundabouts. The rules states how far the cones can be appart.
In one race you drive one at the time and everyone does a single lap 3 times. The two fastest laps are counting, and the times are put together to get your final time. If you drive a lap wrong, you are disqualified from that lap, if you are disqualified from two laps, you will not get a final time. If you touch a cone, you will get 2 seconds added to your time for each cone! We often drive two races in a day in two different cups. Between the races the track is changed or start/stop is switched so the track is reversed.
You can use pretty much any car you like as long as it is road legal and above 600kg. You can modify your car as much as you like, as long as you get the modifications noted in your registration documents so the car is legal on the road.
I have driven 2 cars in the Autoslalom. My daily driven Audi A4 1,9TDi was the first car out. Beeing a nose heavy FWD car without a differential brake and poor tires for the job, it was a slow car around the tracks. But it was wery fun to test the cars limits.
The othe car is my Opel Ascona. It had a 2.2 liter engine, RWD and semislick tires. The car has a big potensial, but is being rebuilt at the moment, as the engine had issues, the steering was awful hevy, and there was some rust that needed attention. The car is allso getting Better suspension, bigger brakes, more power, a rollcage, servo steering etc.
In Norway this is one of the cheapest form of car racing, as you just need a road legal car, a drivers licence and a couple of bucks for the starting fee.
This is a video of my Opel.
