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Philly Region Autocross Chairman, Rob Leone, organized an incredibly "way-cool" event called MirrorKanna, sometimes called Australian Pursuit. Think: Large squiggly oval, consisting of slaloms, a hair-pin, a long sweeper and a few "thread-the-needle" type challenges, all marked in the traditional autocross fashion. What makes this unique is two cars start at the wave of a flag on opposite ends of the course. They "chase" each other twice around the course until the competitors return to their original start/finish point, or in some occasions get close enough to the other competitor. The first person to compete two laps first wins, well kind of anyway. To make things even, an index is used to "equal" the playing field so a wood grained station wagon can compete with a 911 Turbo. This point system is referred to as PAX.

A total of three CRX drivers competed only to be out numbered by a large entry of Subaru drivers. In the end it was a Subaru that won top honors, with an Integra Type R, who went all day undefeated only to be dethroned by his only mistake of the day.

Pictured: Above, First Row; (Left to Right) Brian Yoder HS CRX, AJ Nealey GS CRX, David Hess CSP CRX, Steve Rosenberg driving Steve Landstra's SS Corvette. Steve Rosenberg could have been the "hot-shoe"--"shoe-in" accept a major drive belt snapped during one of his runs. Mr. Landstra offered his Z06 Corvette, but it was a little wider then what Rosenberg was used to.

Second Row; Alan Pozner DS Integra Type R - took second place overall.

During the morning most drivers were losing not because they were slow, but because they were disqualified. A DNF happened when a driver went off-course or hit more then one cone per run. So mumblings around the grid area were, "clean run wins". This caught on and people started to drive a bit cleaner and know from watching where the trouble spots were. There was one main area that people were having trouble with. It was a start/finish gate that consisted of an a skewed 4 + 4 cone gate. The smaller cars could "thread-the-needle" and go through almost straight, while the larger cars had a bit more difficulty. It was the double cones on the entry and exit that was causing the most difficulty. I know because I shagged the exit cones during two heats, and my thighs are still killin' me.

(Most excellent!) Photos provided by Terry "TAZ" Zorich. Check out Terry's MirrorKanna photos at PhotoReflect.com