Monticello: at $125K initiation fee + $7500 annual dues + costs for storage, etc. its quite expensive and not worth it for only 6 months of the year and the number of times I drive on a track

 

Steve the best way to do some track events are to sign up with your local chapter for DE . You will learn a lot and it is the most fun you can have with your clothes on !
Elliot

BTW
Here is a recent pic of me at Thunderbolt the 993s is my son in his car !
We had fun graet new track

 

Yeah the membership is crap. But if you can get an organization that rents if for the day. YOu can get on for under $400 bucks. I personally dont see myself back on the track unless they permit the FULL TRACK Configuration to be used. I found it to be a very SLOW track, barely getting out of 2nd gear most of the track.

I am hoping to do VIR and Road Atlanta this year. Any groups out there willing to let a bunch of Corvettes join in on their track days??

 

im going to be new to the racing scene hopefully when it warms up soon so what should a first time racer know about racing? what do I need to bring? How do I need to setup my car? Im familiar with motorcycle racing with wiring up my bike, but I have NEVER raced a car on a closed track before!!

 

I really like the road course at NHIS; it has some interesting elevation changes, and in the smaller configuration it's not really fast enough to offer a scary turn 1.

If there's a violent spot, I would think it'd be that first turn, but I don't recall it being particularly rough.

 

Give this site a try,

http://thetrackschedule.com

 

Ck out Metropca, they go to most of those tracks, but unless it's an advanced day track time is short. A lot of my friends have different makes (vettes/vipers, f cars, etc), so I tend to do more PDA and SCDA. This yr SCDA is having a two day at the glen on both the usual boot circuit and the nascar-non boot the 2nd day. that should be interesting!
Agree monticello is a waste of time, they will never open up the whole circuit to clubs renting the track, njmp is really well done, but the glen is still king!

 

You are welcome to run with us at MVP Track Time’s 2009 Northeastern (some in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic too for good measure) track days. Our track events are listed below:

September 7-8: Virginia International Raceway "Labor Day Speed Fix"

September 28, 2009 - Summit Point (Main Course)

October 17-18: Mid Ohio

October 31 – November 1: Watkins Glen "Halloween Fright FAST!”

November 21 – 22: Road Atlanta “Flyin Turkey Trot”

Of course you can run at any of our track events. For more details, registration (both on-line and mail-in registration) and the balance of the 2009 schedule, visit us at www.MVPTrackTime.com.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at (314) 249-3770 or Feffman@MVPTrackTime.com. All are welcome. Happy Motoring and I’ll see you at the track!

Feff

 

Sign up at motorsportreg.com. They have a giant list of tracks and events anywhere in the country that you can sign up for. A few of them you have to be members of the pca, bmwcca, or audi club, etc..

 

Feffman, will you have Road America on the schedule next year?

 

My favorites:
1) Watkins Glen
2) Thunderbolt NJMP
3) VIR (woulda been #2 but NJMP wins because of proximity)
4) Summit Point - Main
5) Shenandoah @ summit point
6) Pocono (Double Infield)
7) Lightning

Haven't yet been to Limerock, Monticello, or BeaveRun. No plans to do Limerock, and Monticello just never has dates that work out. BeaveRun brings up too many painful memories of the ex-gf lol.

This year Im mostly just alternating between Thunderbolt and Watkins Glen. I got about 12 days lined up for Thunderbolt, and 9 at Watkins Glen. Plus some VIR at the end of the year and Summit Point.

 

Heavy it's an ongoing attempt to get a good (key word here - good) weekend at Road America. They offered us an early April or late October date, but the real possibility of snow ruled that out. Hopefully in 2010, but I'm not holding my breath.

Feff
www.MVPTrackTime.com