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Autotests
Have you seen the way Russ Swift and other professional stunt drivers can make their cars "dance"? Well Russ began on Autotests, which train you to handle your car with great precision. A course is set out on tarmac (or grass), creating a number of gates, garages and slaloms. Each competitor has two timed runs at each course before the layout is changed, giving up to five different courses. Times from each run are index-linked against other competitors in all classes, to decide on the overall result.
Competing in a standard car is fine, perhaps just swapping onto older tyres to save shredding your street rubber. Minis are very popular, and are sometimes cut down into "topless" form. Readers of Max Power who get excited by this word should take a cold shower right away...Space-framed specials (often self-made) with individually operating rear brakes, are poetry in motion in the hands of an expert driver.
LMSC promotes a series of six tarmac Autotests each summer, with the occasional bonus event on grass or at an event like the Mini Show (see photos). Young drivers can compete from the age of 16 in a "standard" car.
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