Twelve drivers and a half dozen spectators took advantage of the fine summer weather and came out for the Mid-summer Autocross held at DePaul University in Naperville on Sunday June 24, 2001.

As promised (threatened?), the course was laid out a little differently this time. It had the usual gates and tight curves, but this time in addition to 1st and 2nd gears, reverse was also used. The first part of course included the 'parking lot dash'. Drivers had to pull into a standard size 90-degree parking slot from speed, then (simulating seeing an approaching SUV and a spot thirty feet closer to the door of the donut shop) back into the second parking slot before continuing forward again. (I used to practice this quite often when I was working!)

We also included several forward and reverse 'stop in the box' sections. A slalom in reverse was rather intimidating the first couple of runs but great fun to watch. Contrary to rumor, the local transmission and clutch repair shop did not sponsor the event. The club's tech co-ordinater took advantage of the morning and had an un-scheduled tech session on MGA distributers.

After the event we repaired to a local establishment, The Rock Bottom Brewery, for the traditional bragging, could-a would-a should-a session. Special thanks to DePaul University for the use of their parking lot and to the 'spectators' who assisted with the timing and monitoring the cones.