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Originally Posted by Panteracer
Checkered flag racing requires you
to have someone invite you. After you run
there is a survey sent out to all members to
see if the driver was safe, courteous etc
If approved then you can become a member
Then you can earn a race license if you want
Similar to Nasa but in a smaller sense. One of my Pantera
buddies runs with Nasa but in his supercharged very fast Nsx
out of Arizona. He is an instructor, class winner and really likes the group
When I ran in Texas with our Pantera group we combined with Drivers edge on the
Texas World Speedway track. I was not allowed to run at first in the top group
and required to have an instructor for a couple of sessions. At first I was a little pissed but when I went out with the instructor he showed me a few lines I would not have used. Next secession on my own I worked on what I learned
Third session he helped me tune a few areas. With over 50 track days and
multiple years of Autocrossing I found out you can learn something new
every time you run
Next session I was one of the fastest in the group They came to me the next day saying I could move to the top group. Problem was it started raining and never quit. Still a great memory running the big banked track
Bob
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Funny how that works huh......
After dicing with this Porsche -- I gave him a point by - he didn't take it (was front straight and I pointed him by and LIFTED at the beginning of it) -- next lap -- I WAVED him by.... Why? Because I wanted to follow him for a couple laps -- to see if I was holding him up -- and maybe he was a little bit faster and I could go to school on him. As figured - he could carry a bit more average speed in a couple sections - T2/3/4 - but the edge went to the horsepower whenever it was available....
His wife had gotten a great tip about running the off camber T4 (where I had spun once during a session trying to late brake it over the blind rise in an effort to find a line that worked). She shared it with us and damned if it didn't work! You were immediately rewarded with more speed thru the turn. And it just FELT like you owned the lousy SOB. Made me think about hiring an instructor - now that I have quite a few laps around these tracks (Sonoma and Thunderhill) - to see what I DON'T KNOW! You don't know what you don't know sometimes! LOL