* A track day trip us Pacific NW'ers are going to probably take

[Craig 930 RS]

Here's a possibility of a good trip, taking in three great tracks in a few short months.

April 8th at Thunderhill with PCA Golden Gate region, 9th at Infineon with NASA, 10th at Buttonwillow with NASA.

Sacramento to Sonoma is <100 miles, Sonoma to Buttonwillow is 240 +/- miles.

Rev em up...

[nostatic]

hmm....maybe a SoCal contingent wants to head north, then back south for this? Do you have to be a NASA member to run with them?

[djmcmath]

Ooh ... sounds like a fun road trip. I could put in for leave to get a long weekend. Todd, I'll meet your "Do you have to be a NASA member" question and raise you a "What does it cost" question.

Thanks for the heads up, Craig.

Dan

[nostatic]

well, I just joined for $40. Looks like DEs are $225 for two days at Willow. $279 to do one day at Laguna Seca.$275 for 2 days at California speedway, $195 for one. Hmmm....who's run with NASA DEs?

Anyone done the competition driving school from Driving Concepts?

[Jack Olsen]

I've run with NASA. They run pretty good HPDE's, although you don't get as much track time as a group like OTR offers. The way they do it also varies from area to area (So-Cal, Nor-Cal, Nevada).

My opinion would be that POC's competition school is better. (But that's just an opinion.)

A bonus: Now that you've joined NASA, you're eligible to run your SC in T3 of the Open Track Challenge.

[nostatic]

Originally posted by JackOlsen

A bonus: Now that you've joined NASA, you're eligible to run your SC in T3 of the Open Track Challenge.

Don't think I haven't pondered that. Looking at the times from last year I imagine I would be pretty seriously bringing up the rear, but it's all about competing rather than watching, right? You only go around once.

$1500 though....ouch.

[nostatic]

wrt schools, I already did the first POC school. I assume the "Racers Clinic" is the next step (after getting the requisite STS events in). Looks like that is in June.

[rich22]

Originally posted by JackOlsen
A bonus: Now that you've joined NASA, you're eligible to run your SC in T3 of the Open Track Challenge.

This is 3 tracks in 3 days, almost as good as OTC.

BTW, I thought 3 liter and over goes into T2.