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Thanks to the organizers for a great day yesterday! I really enjoyed the course setup more than past events @ Frederick! Going to be a looong couple of months with no car fun

Hyperfest is gonna be bonkers this year. In addition to the NASA event + drifting + BSR stuff, they've got the arrive-and-drive karting, they're running a Rally Sprint (about a 2 mile long course I hear) and, oh yea, 24 Hours of LeMons on the Shenandoah. There's not even going to be enough space at ...

Jefferson is pretty small and relatively slow. FWIW, iRacing has Summit Main and Jefferson circuits and you get them for free when joining, so you can check it out/learn the track ahead of time. They always have new sign-up promotions as well. This weekend it's 3 months + indy500 car/track for $32. ...

Thanks to all the organizers for a great event. It was a lot of fun driving on the "reduced traction" surface. It kind of felt like driving in the wet, only without water. Based on that I may have to go and try one of the drift events they hold there some day! Video from one of my PM runs ...

Video of my last dry run of Sunday:

http://vimeo.com/3915015

I talked to Ted, and he confirmed that all CDC members can sign up for the Mercedes club track days. In the past, they made you join the club after the first event you attended with Mercedes. To avoid the confusion, please e-mail Ted at tedjoseph@cox.net Ed GWS-MBCA puts on terrific events, so good...

I took just one picture on my phone while sitting around. It shows how wet it was at least:



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What the heck is up with that orange RX-8?!?

I'll go if you show up at work for me those days.

+1 - I would like to see this be a scored event if it's going to be run like a normal autox anyway. Would doing so adversely affect other competitors who had not planned on/made time for this date?

Wow, let's do that!! Along those lines, there's a similar police training track in Chantilly, VA but I don't know of any club that's negotiated a deal to use it so it's likely that they're not going to be nearly as receptive the idea as the one mentioned above. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl...

Yea, I was looking forward to driving on the new pavement for the first time this weekend. Big disappointment with having to take weird lines around half the corners to avoid washboard potholes

The excel file attached has two sheets! The one marked "student assignments" has the car numbers

It's getting so close I can taste it. Just got my tech inspection done today and I'm ready to rock. Monday please come quickly!!!

yellowcar wrote:

TubeDriver wrote:Full track except I will be cutting off pit lane and using T18 instead.

Great call. The pit lane is unnecessary risk IMO.

Agreed. It's extra fun in the rain with all the standing water that builds at the bottom of the hill as you enter the pit straight.

Organic Pep Boys brand, right? ;) Just kidding, I'm running Porterfield R4-S pads. Hopefully I won't be too much of a moving road block for you guys.... I would strongly advise against using R4-S pads at the track. They are a terrific street pad, but there is a reason it says right on the box "...