December 09, 2006
Pixie Posse Racing (photo-heavy, sorry)
Posted by Jess in
Mini Cooper S
When I registered at the gate for my first autocross event last May, the lady behind the counter was helping me make sure I was in the right class. One question that came up was whether I wanted to be in Open, Novice, or Ladies class. I was a novice, but I'm also a lady, and didn't know which to pick.
The woman said that there was no other women registered that day - if I wanted a trophy, compete in ladies class. If I wanted to be competetive, enter Novice class. I ended up going as Novice (where's the fun in no competition?).
(Of course, now I have so many modifications to the car that I'm bumped to the highest mod class. More on that later!)
The lady behind the counter shook her head, and said that in the eleven years she's been working the gate, she had never seen a woman go there on their own accord - they always came and entered because their spouce or partner did.
I then got to tell her that I was here by myself - she almost fainted! It was a nice moment. :-)
As it turns out, I was a bit of a pioneer for my local MINI club. There was one other girl who had wanted to do it, but just wasn't sure where to go, how to get started, etc. She ended up coming with me on my next event.
Note the "MINI" logo on my helmet, that sticker was a gift. Love it!
After that, we got a third girl. As the tech inspector for the cars announced, when we drove up for the morning Tech Inspection, "They're multiplying!"
Three pixies! Audra, me, and Becca.
Finally, the fourth girl came in her new MINI and had a blast, unaware of the driving potential of her car.
The fourth pixie, Sheena!
We had a blast on our first season together, and Becca even made it into a racing magazine when they took her picture at the line. The real irony is that her son is a championship autocrosser in the midwest. :-)
The cars, in order: Becca's 'Bonnie Blue', Audra's 'The Pearl', Jess's 'Eloise', and Sheena's 'Pi Rho'.
We finally wrapped up the season with a detail-day party to wash the cars (read: get the cone marks off!) and I gave everyone a CD of all the fast songs I listened to on the long drive to get to autocross to get psyched up! I made it complete with CD cover booklet of all the girls and the cars.
Season 1 is over, with a few medals I brought home, and a whole slew of new friends. Who knows what next season will bring? I can say, it will be a long wait.
Here's some samples from the CD cover I made. The rest of the season's album is here.
Becca driving Bonnie Blue, SM class means 'Street Modified'
Sheena driving Pi Rho. She's running GS class, which is G Stock. This basically means that she's pretty much the only one in our MINI club that still has a stock MINI. She's only had her MINI a few months, so we'll see how long *that* lasts.
Me (Jess) driving my beloved Eloise. I made the mistake of spending a day driving around in someone else's MINI during an autocross event once. Eloise let me know what she thought of that by breaking down twenty feet into driving home from the event and needed to be towed. Matt was considering renaming her to the more appropriate "Christine".
Audra, driving The Pearl. Pearl has since got bring orange mirror caps, and her orange flame is on order. STX class means "Street Touring Extreme", which doesn't have quite as harsh scoring methodologies as Street Modified.
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