Eurotrash Motorsports

Eurotrash Motorsports was extremely well represented at MCO’s 2nd autocross race of the season – with 9 drivers spanning four different classes.  With the generous contributions of Metric Homes and Koffman signs, all but 2 had team-sponsored number plates.

The day turned out to be very exciting.  The weather was great, and the course was too.  It was extremely technical and challenging - it was very inviting for those who wanted to push hard, but didn’t leave any room for error.  If you pushed a bit too much, missed gates or downed cones would result.

One of our A-class drivers, Phil was having his first day in his new car – a turboed miata that he had just purchased the week before, and was able to finish 12th of 14.  He wasn’t the only one with a new car though - One of Chris’ friends, Quentin, had purchased a 1984 Nissan 300ZX for autoX and have been working on it for the past 3 weeks.  Sunday was it’s virgin drive and he seemed to be having a blast as well!  Naresh was also keeping in A-class in his boosted miata but seemed to be having some trouble, scoring only one clean run – but it was good enough to get him 5th!  In B-class, my dad Pierre was also driving his first autoX and was doing great, finishing 11th of the 22.  In C-class, the competition was heavy between Chris and I.  We were swapping back and forth for 2nd and 3rd place all day, and we were both pushing hard.  I had my first spin at an autoX though – I came into an off-camber corner with the tail a bit loose and it sent me around before i knew it.  After that, it was time to play catch up.  I took 2nd place on my 4th run, but Chris pulled out some magic on his last and beat me by 0.05 seconds!!!!  As frustrating as it was to be beat by my little bro, I’m proud of what he did, and can only blame myself as I was making mistakes all day – hitting cones in two runs and spinning out in a third.  Plus, it landed us another double podium!  Chris now has 2 second place finishes, and I have a first and a third.  Quentin was also in C-class, and for his first time was doing great.  He managed to squeak out his faster run on his 5th and final run of the day which ranked him 19th of the 2o in class.  An engine cooling issue prevented him from doing his last run. In D-class there were a few cars duking it out as well.  Our newest Eurotrash member, Jamie (who had driven with Jeff and Naresh in their Caboose this winter) has been continuing his reign of glory, coming in with his 9th straight first place finish in D-class (continuing from last year).  Pat and Jeff seemed to be having some trouble and only landed 2 clean runs with DNFs and cones in the others and finished 4th and 9th, respectively.  It was obvious that the track was taking it’s toll on us as many strong, consistent drivers were just fighting to keep it clean.

We also had a whole bunch of spectators come out to watch including family and friends.  It was really great to see all the support we received.

The event ran extremely smooth once again.  There were a few re-runs but nothing extreme, and we were able to get 6 timed runs in with some fun runs at the end of the day.  Naresh took some amazing pictures, so be sure to check them out in the gallery!

Results were as follows:

A-Class:

B-Class:

C-Class:

D-Class:

Shawn