Matthew at the Autocross

Char and I went to Blairsville today to watch Matthew drive his MINI Cooper S at an autocross event there. It was sponsored by the Allegheny Highlands Chapter of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA). It's a race against your own time -- and the time of others in your class -- with one car on the course at a time. Unfortunately, there were only 19 drivers today, and they needed 20 to make it a sanctioned event. With the unofficial results in, Matthew won his class by 0.05 seconds.

Matthew used to participate in autocross events when he lived in California and owned a Honda del Sol. This was his first time driving at Blairsville.

Coming out of a turn.

Matthew taking the MINI into a turn.

An overview of the course, with Matthew on it.