My first track day w/scda on 8/20/07. Im hooked. The car loved it too.

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video isnt the best quality, but still looks good, and car looks nice as well, i just ordered some black rims with a crome lip like yours, and i have the black car as well, so i'm hoping my car will look as sexy as yours.

 

Lime Rock is awesome. You coming to the Cape Cod run?

 

Im planning on it. I just havent posted yet. Ill be running nhis on 9/22. Looks like more fun.

 

pics look sweet

 

thanks for the vid. im taking mine to the track this weekend so hopefully ill be hooked too!

 

just hope you're playing smart and not taking hairpin turns at 80 mph at the track. You throw your 8 into a wall and don't go thinking your insurance company will fix it up for you. organized racing is listed as an exclusion in pretty much all insurance policies, and if you wreck your car you're screwed.

 

That's the key word in the insurance policy. HPDE's don't fit the racing definition.

 

not to further the thread jack, but most policies now read that any event taking place on a racing surface. does not matter if it is HPDE, or wheel to wheel. that is a risk you take. In HPDE, don't drive 10/10's, and keep your head on straight. But **** still happens, you just have to be prepared for it.

 

Do we need to have a license to go to the track?

 

just a driver's license, and some groups require that you be 18, or have a guardian with you. see who sponsors track days in your area, they will all have a set of rules.

 

Thanks L8APEX, you're right on the insurance policy. I drove at mostly 8/10 and some 9/10 on the slow corners. The instructors were really good. The classroom instructor was the chief instructor of the skip barber racing school. I plan on driving 10/10 but it will be in a less expensive car. Like my 90 miata that im converting to track only. With most of my focus on safety. Locally in new england, scda and bmwcca boston has events that anyone can run.

 

How much did you pay for this track day?

 

man i really needa go to the track one day...

 

This one was 325, four 25 min sessions and classroom time in between. scda still has a few track days left this year. nhis for 250, watkins glen is 260. bmcca boston runs nhis and watkins glen for a little less money.

 

great video. what were you running for lap times? theres a NASA HPDE event on November 8th at Lime Rock that im thinking about checking out. that would be cool if there would be more rotaries there.

 

Lap times were not that important at this stage. Like I said, I was driving at 8/10ths. So my lap times were prob not that good. How do you get into a NASA HPDE event? Do you need a membership or anything like that?

 

I wish I could fit in the car with a helmet & still see over the steering wheel so I could take the car out to the track!

 

nice!

 

Thanks for the video.