Even with the rain throughout half of the day, this was a great experience, which gave us skills not only to help in Auto Crossing but also in day-to-day driving on the streets. We would highly recommend this to all our club members, racers or not! They have three classifications for Track Days: "Novice" "Intermediate" and "Advanced" - you could tell some of these folks had been here before - the Panoz folks knew them by name. Today started out a cold 37 degrees when we left the house, with a high forecasted at 44 degrees with rain starting in the afternoon. Sure enough, they were correct, a few drops of mist were falling before we ever started and by the end of the second session, it was drizzling. It was raining throughout the third and fourth sessions. There were three other Vettes out there, one blue metallic C5 Convertible and a pair of Silver Z06s plus a wide variety of other cars - only one of which was trailered. The Course was a combination of the Big Oval and the Infield Track that we use for our Autocross event - according to Bob's trip odometer, we raced 128 miles or a little over 53 laps on the full 2.4 mile course!
Our speeds coming out of the infield up into NASCAR 3 and around NASCAR 4 into the home stretch reached 120-130+ consistently in sessions one & two - in sessions three and four after the rain started our top speeds were just shy of 110 in this same stretch. |