Mid-o has nice elevation changes.
i’ve only ridden around it on a parade lap (vintage bike week) but watching the racers was sick
@OP
There are better ways to spend $1600 at the track.
I agree 100%. But if this cost significantly less, it would totally be worth it imo
I really want to run at lm or wg.
Monticello is tight and technical. The course design is very safe (for club members with expensive street hardware) which also means there arent any (maaybe one) fast corners aka the fun part. WGI is like a rollercoaster you drive yourself, lots of elevation change and fast corners and fast fast fast.
NY is a bummer on a bike, you’ve gotta go to Mid O or NJMP to get on a real track. I encourage the pilgrimage to VIR when you get that February cabin fever…
Same with a Ferrari. Or a megayacht.
$1600? 
rofl:rofl
So i have no experience on these types of courses but i picked up a car id like to track. Do i need to be certified first? Need to take classes? I just want to go have fun on open days and romp around. Maybe eventually enter a race or something.
No certification if doing HPDE. As long as your car pass tech, you have the required gear and you don’t look like you are drunk or on drugs, pay the fee and you are in. Won’t be driving solo until an instructor sign you off.
Racing is different. Start with getting a race license, have a car build to rule book, have a way to tow the car there. If you have $$$$$ nothing is impossible…:rofl
Also, checkout this sticky in the race section by JC: http://shift518.com/showthread.php?t=538
If it’s the car you were asking me about (even though you never texted since I told you I hate talking on the phone lol), I suggest joining the BMWCCA (honestly, no matter what car you have it’s a good club to be a part of. I joined when I had my Subaru). Then get account on motorsportreg.com. Then search for events held at LRP or WGI (those are closest), then find a BMWCCA event at either of those and sign up.
May be a little more to it than that, but I can help if needed.
Sadly, its not. Its an A6 4.2 quattro. Not an m3 but im sure i can still have some fun with it. The charger i couldnt make it around one of those turns going 10mph.
Unless you have the Charger’s suspension set up for drag racing, it’d most likely be better than the A6 around a track. I’ve seen Dodge Magnums, 300Cs, and similar chassis cars on track and they’ve been fine (or at least their drivers could drive them well).
90/10’s and no sway bars :rofl. Id be in the bushes pulling out of pit rd.
I have no idea what 90/10s are.
Its just made to go straight is the easiest way to put it. So i sign up, then when i go to a track day does an instructor need to ride with me or someone certified to ride on their own?
drag shocks.
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[bestadviceinthread]don’t do any kind of events like this with your DD[/bestadviceinthread]
YEa, once your track day date arrives, you go to the track (make sure you get your car pre-teched by a competent mechanic, there are usually forms on the organizations site for the tech to fill out, before the event) and you are assigned an isntructor that’ll help you. An instructor NEEDS to be in the car unless you’ve been signed off, meaning you can’t give people rides who aren’t instructors.
There’s a big event w/ GVC BMWCCA at Watkins Glen in late September that I’m going to, you should go to that one. I believe they give $100 off to novice drivers that have never been there too, so you make out well. It’s a weekend event and you’ll get about four hours of track time for $325 or $375, which is a pretty damn good deal compared to say, Lime Rock where you payd about $325 for around 1.5-2hrs of track time.
Ah, ok. Yea, take the A6.
Im going to look into that for sure. Thanks!
Not true at all. Ideally, you go on track as a noob with a car you are familiar with, DD or not. A majority of the people you see at events are there in their DDs (well, seasonal DD). Certain car insurance companies WILL cover any on track crash due to the event not being timed (not competitive), and it is just a driving instruction event. I know Liberty Mutual covers stuff.
Realistically, you should not take a car on track that would set you back financially if you were to push it off a cliff.
Probably stupid question, are there many automatic cars that frequent the tracks?