Did My First High Performance Driving Event Today
 

And Damn it was scary out there. 65 degree down pours all day and absolutly the slickest road surface I've been on since winter last year in New England, thats no exaggeration.

I dont know how familiar you guys are with HPDEs but they are essentially a mix of performance driving school and wheel to wheel racing.
Top speed around a race track, can you imagine trying to lay down close to 400whp to the pavement with 4.10s and street tires on the slickest wet roads you've ever been on.

It was crazy, here I am rolling into half throttle towards the top of 3rd (about 85-95 mph) and the car is skating side to side. Or downshifting during braking after that scary straight and even after rev matching the rear end still locks slighly and starts trying to swap ends with you.

Luckily by the end of the day it started drying a bit. But point is, I highly suggest this form of crazy. Its a good type of crazy and if I had some decent conditions I think I would have liked it even more.

I'll post pics once they upload them

did it once and loved it, just never had the opportunity to do it since.

where was this at

on a road course... duh...


lol

Damn Demon! You are so smucking fart! I would love to have your vocabulary sometimes! ASS! lol

sounds fun

It was up at NHMS up in loudon.

If you run the road course, you will have a new appreciation for nascar. I was hitting about 110 down the straight, and after the straight you make a pretty tight turn to continue on the road course, but in front of you is the oval and its steep and a lot tighter than it looks on tv.

Anyone know how fast Nascars go at NHMS?

i think they get up into the 140-150 range

The Whelen Modified car they run out of my shop gets up to around 130 - 140 or so mph at Loudon.

hay sciff how much did It cost for your comp licenses and what where the requirements.

A couple good shots from the day

Just shows you how wet and dark it was, this was late morning almost lunch time

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Starting to have some fun as we catch a break in the rain for a couple hours and the puddle at least dry up

In the bowl, this is a lot of fun
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Coming up on this slow group, I ended up passing all of them

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Pulling away from this scooby
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I did get passed by this 350z surprisingly.
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Dont know whats goin on here I dont remember ever even seeing an elise on the track but I do remember I passed this blue miata a bunch of times.
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Final session. Wet and slick, but I'm still pushing it nearly as hard as the dry sessions.
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No real requirements, just as long as your car is safe. I would highly suggest some real good brake pads and fluid though.

Also no competition license needed. They advertise these as driving schools.

You get 4 30 minute sessions (although they go really quickly when your out there.) and it costs 275 at this club.

If I had a stock car though I'd run with www.comscc.com. They are only 225$ and they take 100$ off your first time out.

Not a bad deal when you consider other options. Racing school like skip barber 5k for 3 days. Autox only gives you about 15minutes of actual driving time for about $50, or about 10 1+ minute laps.

looks like next year when i have a bit more coin me and you are gona play a little :)

Sprint Cup guys and big block modifieds do about 160 MPH at Loudon.

What club did you go out with this trip?

I've looked into com and definitely plan on heading out with them sometime. Our Subaru was raced with them all the time before we bought it so I know a bunch of the regulars there. Been dying to get out and try it myself.

I was out there with SCDA www.scda1.com

I would race with COM but they have a stupid class system that because of my engine swap requires a ton of safety equipment.