Tuesday and Wednesday I was at the Evolution Performance Driving School in Packwood, WA. I’ve been waiting a long time to take that school (almost 2 years) and it was totally worth it. I strongly recommend it for anyone interested in getting better at autocross.

The school was nothing like what I thought it would be in terms of what you learned. At autocross, you hear people talking all the time about “looking ahead”. During your runs, you’d try and “look ahead” and might not get any faster. This school totally taught me what looking ahead really means and showed me a lot of tools to make sure you’re looking ahead.

I was also nice to be able to ride with some national champions so they could show you what your car is capable of doing. My scoring results sheet showed a huge improvement after one ride with Karl Coleman driving my car through the slalom.

Here are the release notes (at least the ones I remembered to write down).

• Added WWSCC data
• Changed menus to support WWSCC data
• Cleaned up / packaged data processing scripts to make future organization imports easier
• Removed acronym-tag based raw time mouse overs.
• Added mouse-over raw time popups
• Added mouse-over split times to the events and series class pages
• Added a filter to the user pages to filter out organization race data
• Added event names and year to the driver comparison page
• Changed events page to tabs to separate content
• Added course maps where available (only 1 so far)
• Weather locations closer to site (Olympia data for Shelton events)

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