Guys, help!
Before I ever started my first Skippy class to fulfill my childhood dreams of racing, this man Bruce (I can't remember his last name) had sent me an email on this site asking me if, I wanted to not only see his FE, but drive on the NHMS course myself! Anyway, I had drove my parents Mazda RX-8 up there to drive around, so those were my first laps ever racing on an actual race track, even if I was slow as s#@t.
Sadly, you all know that I'm unable to actually ever race again with the SCCA, or in general really, but I still have a BIG desire to turn some laps again. I had bought my mother another 08 RX-8 to place that one that that regretted selling, but considering that they had sold that car 10 years earlier than I newer one that I bought them a few years ago, there was one major thing that I had never even considered, that their both 10 years older in age! While both of my parents were truly touched that I had bought them another RX-8, which they did end up driving for about 3 years before realizing that they needed something more practical, so I decided to buy that RX-8 back from my mother this year for track purposes!
Again, anyway, I had since dumped a few thousand into my RX-8 with some engine mods, suspension upgrades, brake rotor upgrades and some nice racing wheels that should be delivered by this following weekend, now my car is ready for the track! No, I don't plan on trying to always run faster than the last lap that I ran, but I do want to turn some faster than normal laps with my girlfriend in the passenger seat! Hell, I'll even let my girlfriend turn a few laps herself!
Damn, this short message is starting to get longer than any book reports that I ever wrote while I was in high shool! haha Anyway x3, I wanted to know if NHMS still runs those open track events? I had never turned a racing lap in my life, so I wasn't holding any kind of racing license or in any kind of car clubs, but I was allowed to run on their road course? I also wanted to know if Bruce was holding some sort of event that day, or if he might have talked to somebody? I also was the passenger in some guys Mazda RX7 who really know how to drive the wheels off that thing, so much so that every time I got in for another ride I made my hand cross to God himself that we'd be be walking at the end of that session!
Or am I completely wrong about NHMS letting a novice driver out on the road course, that I must have my dates confused?My brain was a little scrambled after my crash at LRP in my FF, but I hope not? Anybody? Bruce (whoever the F you are)? Anybody?
Former #31 FF,
Brian
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However, that can't/won't stop me from just driving some fast laps around the track. Sure, there is always danger when driving fast around others or just hitting the wall in general, but any crash that I may find myself involved with wouldn't be anything as extreme as at my old racing speeds, I think'hope? I plan on tacking my girlfriend to the track with me every time that I end up going, and to even let her turn a few laps herself on an actual race track! I do not hold any kind of racing license anymore, nor has my girlfriend ever held one at all, so will that stop either of us from running? I of course would take to any new possible track first myself to learn the line, or just brush up on an old track that I used to race at. I will be wearing my old racing helmet, and I will buy my girlfriend one of her own before ever going!