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Join Date: Feb 2005
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To be honest the experience you guys got in Vegas is 180° from mine in Miami. I left feeling ripped off and like I could have driven my Mini Cooper from home faster on that track for a track day.

For starters, I have done many tracks days, I am more of an Autocrosser, I was really competitive in a very fast AX class that used to be called B-Prepared I think it is X-Prepared now. I took 3 season points championships and too many top times of the day to count. I took about 8 driving schools for Autocrossing and had a very fast well set up RX7, it had 550hp and weighed 2650 lbs, compare those stats to many supercars today and it was as fast as if not faster than most. The kicker was no ABS, no TC and obviously no stability control. All driver.

I had sold the car and had instant regret, my wife purchased a Supercar Experience for me thinking that would take away some of the sting of selling my car.

As mentioned I did a lot of track days too, so I was no stranger to getting the car out of 2nd gear, I decided on purpose to do AX first to learn car control then move on to track days, the AX served me well.

The video they sold us was garbage, you could not see anything, I wish it looked as good as above. By pure luck, I brought my own helmet with has a camera mount on it, so I shot my own video too. It is not every day a guy gets to drive a Ferrari F430. Ironically, I used to torment the 430 and 460's on the track all the time in my RX7. I just wanted to see what the Ferrari's felt like at speed.

I chose Miami Homestead because that was the last track I did a 2 day track weekend at and I know the track very well. When I got there and did the orientation ride in a nondescript sedan, I was gutted to see they pulled a wall and were making us drive over curbing in order to cut the track in half. I was already sour to the experience but tried to make the best of it.

Then as I rounded my second lap of 3 purchased by my wife, I started to get on the car and was told to back it off, this was not that kind of driving experience. I basically had to pussy foot around the track and was allowed to get on it hard for the front straight like all the people that had no track time and just wanted to go fast in a straight line.


Here is my helmet cam video the constant and non stop babble from the asset protector in the passenger seat sucked. I understand he is not there to teach you, like when you do a DE and ask for or get an instructor, even then they let you drive and give toy tips, this guy, non stop.

My first time in a paddle shifter car too which was pretty cool. I remember Motion telling people years ago how awesome it is, it was, not sure I would want it on my fun car.

https://youtu.be/mCkdw5YnZ-w
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