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Originally Posted by mdprovee
I can say as a newbie, that the RTTC was most everything I wanted.
I enjoyed the autocross and the road course. I knew I had no chance of "winning" but got to hang out, meet people, drive my car, that was the winning in my book. I didnt push my car hard for a few reasons, lack of experience, didnt want to hurt it too bad, amoung things. No one laughed at me. I missed the cruise, but had it not been Easter, I would have done that too.
It is intimidating to come to these events, with some of the better cars and drivers, but EVERYONE was great to talk with, it really lowers the intimidation factor. It was funny...before the event started, Jeff Smith, the magazine editor, came over to talk with me about my car... and we talked not only cars, but some of his family history from the El Toro air base. All the people are just regular people.
The only thing I would have liked would have been more road course time, and some instruction for the new people like me. I am trying to go to local events to get that too.
I would highly recomend if you are on the fence about going to something like this, do it, and you will have a good time, no matter what the outcome is.
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Don't be intimidated...
All kinds of people track all types of cars every weekend. High Performance Driving Events exist all over the country at tracks across the country. You can go to your local track and look at the calendar to find groups you can run with any weekend that suits you. People often rent cars for the events just to beat on. Mini coopers, even cadillacs/lincoln towncars.
Many run groups give instructors free lap time in exchange for their free instruction.
http://www.opentrackracing.com/
is just one of many examples of the clubs running in Socal. I'd personally like to see more pro-touring folks coming out to local events to get track time.
No need for things to be big productions with pro-touring only cars and sponsors. I do understand their purpose, function in the community and the comfort level of people running with cars of equal style/build. The best part of track days for me is lapping modern sports cars in a 41 year old car. I'm glad there was a carrera GT at the RTTC event for that purpose.
As a community, we should all post any time we plan to attend a local track day, and get together casually as well. Not just at events that are planned months in advance.