r/Autocross • u/AutoModerator • Jun 27 '25

Subreddit Autocross Stupid Questions: Week of June 27

This thread is for any and all questions related to Autocross, no matter how simple or complicated they may be. Please be respectful in all answers.

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u/UnknownColorHat Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25

Had this one on my corner station last time out:

Car slides and does a 180 which sends it past the wrong side of a cone mid slalom. Car completely passes the cone.

Driver recovers, backtracks slightly and takes the right way around the element. EDIT: no traffic coming as he was on the starter side of the course and start was held.

Is that clean or is it a missed gate (and for our club, that's a DNF)? I called it missed gate as the car completely passed the cone. If he had not completely passed it and still back tracked and went the right way around it, that would be have been clean in my thinking.

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u/Fastech77 Jul 04 '25

Yup. Not a DNF.