Evo school

[rnr]

Took some random videos at the Evo School this weekend

 

Phase 1:

 

Phase 2 (helmet cam):

 

Click through to watch them in HD on youtube. Recorded using the ContourHD 1080P

[Mondo]

looks like fun.... I keep getting error message for the first one though

[jlumba81]

The first vid works if you change it to 1080p on the lower right corner.

[athens7]

The videos played best for me on 720p. I like the helmet cam: it provides an unflinching critique of whether or not you're looking far enough ahead (always a problem for me)! You did a good job looking to the hard left turn right after the start. How did you like the Evo school? I have been to two SoloPro schools and am interested in how they compare.

[rnr]

+1 on the helmet cam and looking ahead though it can cause nausea for people who watch. I've always thought that the best video for autocross would be a full view looking out the car with a picture in picture view of the helmet cam (like road racers have the pedal view)

 

The Evo school was great though I do have to say that it is quite difficult to get proper instruction in a seven (cant hear the instructors). In the end we resorted to using hand signals to communicate.

[athens7]

I think your car is a good bit louder than mine. My car is usually 77-80 db on throttle in 2nd gear, as measured by the Atlanta Region SCCA sound police. The SoloPro school uses a shorter course, like the Evo school, but our courses were much more technical than the one shown in your video, and the course changes 4 times during the day. We could only walk the first course; the rest we saw on diagrams. The idea was to force us to look ahead for the course, as opposed to memorizing it. Certain elements were visually confusing, requiring us to again look ahead, as well as to think about racing lines instead of cones. Class size is up to 12 students with 2 instructors, however our last class was 6 students.

[rnr]

I think your car is a good bit louder than mine. My car is usually 77-80 db on throttle in 2nd gear, as measured by the Atlanta Region SCCA sound police. The SoloPro school uses a shorter course, like the Evo school, but our courses were much more technical than the one shown in your video, and the course changes 4 times during the day. We could only walk the first course; the rest we saw on diagrams. The idea was to force us to look ahead for the course, as opposed to memorizing it. Certain elements were visually confusing, requiring us to again look ahead, as well as to think about racing lines instead of cones. Class size is up to 12 students with 2 instructors, however our last class was 6 students.

 

My car was measured at 95 dB @ Laguna Seca so it is definitely quite a bit louder :-)

 

The SoloPro school sounds a lot like the Evo Phase 2 that I just did. It also had the same 4 course structure with only a morning walkthough with new elements being thrown in without walkthroughs while simultaneously reducing the number of runs on each course. Similar class size as well - 24 students with 4 instructors.