Whew! What a day at the track. Today’s turn-out was awesome. 2 Loti and over 8 MINIs—lost count. Tomorrow should be an incredible turn out. What happened today was unexpected. I did the driving school today instead of tomorrow because they expect over 40 drivers in the class. There were only 15 or so today. What made it difficult was there weren’t enough instructors to ride in everyone car so we had to split up. We got 5 20 minute track sessions, which was much more than I thought.
The people there are super nice. By far the nicest bunch of racers I’ve ever meet. Sure you have to stage on time, but everything else is really relaxed. The classroom was better than I thought it would be. I certainly got my $40.00 from it. The in-car instructors were really cool, and the classroom instruction taught me things I had no clue about.
This is the last time their club plans to do anything like this. Prices are going up. Be sure to get there at least for the free laps and get your coupon to get into a future driving school.
If you plan to do the driving school on Saturday, be sure to get there no later than 7:30AM so you can get registered and over to the classroom which starts at 8AM sharp. Also be sure to have a FULL tank of gas. In those 5 20 minutes sessions I ran it to empty from a full tank (yes, less than 10 MPG).
Be sure to say “thank you “to Tom Ptacek as well as the owners Larry & Vickie Pond who brought you this awesome opportunity. |