Originally posted by Desolate_Flux
Why is it called AutoX?
What is it, just racing around a windy track, trying to accomplish the best time?
I only started drag racing last year, and I'm only now starting to get into this sport 
So, to a n00b, what is AutoX?
Well here is a good description of what they are:
http://www.mindspring.com/~jsculerati/sdr/page1.html
As to why it is called autocross??? I am not sure. In England they have a sport called autocross that has been run for a very long time. It is much more like using cars for a motocross. It is offroad racing on a fairly small dirt road racing course for lack of a better description.
Originally in the US they were called gymkanahs and I have no idea how the term autocross got applied to the events we know. SCCA pretty much always refered to them as Solo events.