Anywhere have a Open track night in NOVA?
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Re: Anywhere have a Open track night in NOVA?
100-200 dollars thats cheap as crap. Most of the guys participating could and would afford much more. These type of days are why I'm not planning on racing I just want to be an instructor in a few years... cheap track time!!!
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Re: Anywhere have a Open track night in NOVA?
Your logbook will need to contain a valid roadracing license, instructor certification, or recent and significant Advanced-group experience to get into one of those non-instructed Summit events.
VIR has their own open practice days but you need to be a VIR Club member. They're running 'em all weekend this weekend, in fact... for their members only, which is $$$. NASA runs 'em too... VIR-Full next Fri 2/23 for example... but you'll still need one or more of the qualifications listed above to be able to register.
100-200 bucks a day is cheap IMHO. As for nobody showing up, it's just the opposite... hundreds of cars at a time actually... they're very popular.
I've never heard of a road course being "open on weekends" for "free runs" and I've been around this stuff for nearly a decade now. Where do they do such a thing? I only ask because I want to move there.
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Jon
VIR has their own open practice days but you need to be a VIR Club member. They're running 'em all weekend this weekend, in fact... for their members only, which is $$$. NASA runs 'em too... VIR-Full next Fri 2/23 for example... but you'll still need one or more of the qualifications listed above to be able to register.
100-200 bucks a day is cheap IMHO. As for nobody showing up, it's just the opposite... hundreds of cars at a time actually... they're very popular.
I've never heard of a road course being "open on weekends" for "free runs" and I've been around this stuff for nearly a decade now. Where do they do such a thing? I only ask because I want to move there.
Confused (and no offense intended),
Jon
Damn 100-200 cars do they hold you in staging forever? Okay its semantics open weekends means "open practice days at VIR" to me. That the terminology i am used to. Its kind of weird cause they will call open weekends at the track during the week. Anyway thanks for the info.
I'll be out there the next open session.
EDIT: I see what your pointing to now. Its not free my terminology is confusing you. Just means the track is open to people needing test runs ect. For a fee. The track i went to was money hungry or something cause every time they didn't have an event they had an open session 120 for the day. 150 mid year for some reason? Anyway, thanks again.
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at the track today?
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Re: Anywhere have a Open track night in NOVA?
I haven't seen a $120 trackday around here in many years. $150-$200 a day ($275-$375 per weekend) is the norm.
What road course is in Huntsville? And what specific HPDE experience or roadracing credentials do you have?
They don't hold you in "staging forever"... you run on a schedule and show up a few minutes early to get in line on the cold pit road, then the 30-50 of you go out for your session until your time is up (number of cars depends upon the length of the circuit, it's usually at least 20 per mile of track.) Most open practice days are 2 to 4 groups of that size, alternating in sessions of ~20min to ~60min on the track.
More confused than before,
Jon
What road course is in Huntsville? And what specific HPDE experience or roadracing credentials do you have?
They don't hold you in "staging forever"... you run on a schedule and show up a few minutes early to get in line on the cold pit road, then the 30-50 of you go out for your session until your time is up (number of cars depends upon the length of the circuit, it's usually at least 20 per mile of track.) Most open practice days are 2 to 4 groups of that size, alternating in sessions of ~20min to ~60min on the track.
More confused than before,
Jon
at the track today?
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Re: Anywhere have a Open track night in NOVA?
EDIT: I see what your pointing to now. Its not free my terminology is confusing you. Just means the track is open to people needing test runs ect. For a fee. The track i went to was money hungry or something cause every time they didn't have an event they had an open session 120 for the day. 150 mid year for some reason? Anyway, thanks again.
Jon
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Re: Anywhere have a Open track night in NOVA?
What kind of focus are you building? zetech, svt, 2.3 duratec? hatch or sedan? Let me know how much you spend all together on building a spec focus, I'm curious.
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Re: Anywhere have a Open track night in NOVA?
I haven't seen a $120 trackday around here in many years. $150-$200 a day ($275-$375 per weekend) is the norm.
What road course is in Huntsville? And what specific HPDE experience or roadracing credentials do you have?
They don't hold you in "staging forever"... you run on a schedule and show up a few minutes early to get in line on the cold pit road, then the 30-50 of you go out for your session until your time is up (number of cars depends upon the length of the circuit, it's usually at least 20 per mile of track.) Most open practice days are 2 to 4 groups of that size, alternating in sessions of ~20min to ~60min on the track.
More confused than before,
Jon
What road course is in Huntsville? And what specific HPDE experience or roadracing credentials do you have?
They don't hold you in "staging forever"... you run on a schedule and show up a few minutes early to get in line on the cold pit road, then the 30-50 of you go out for your session until your time is up (number of cars depends upon the length of the circuit, it's usually at least 20 per mile of track.) Most open practice days are 2 to 4 groups of that size, alternating in sessions of ~20min to ~60min on the track.
More confused than before,
Jon
I ran SOLO preparred for a long while got bored with it.
Burlesun Motor Sports outside of Gurley was my hot spot. There is about 20 tracks take your pic. Most will even let you on with shabby evidence that you can drive.
EDIT: Yea dude do a search on track in AL. There not he best but there cheap and alot of them. I was military brat so i travel alot.
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Re: Anywhere have a Open track night in NOVA?
I'll let you know so far expensive. Unless i stay zetec.
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