NASA's not that expensive for HPDE. Our most expensive event is Road Atlanta and it's still less than $400 to enter. Plus, you get about 2 hours track time for the weekend, which means a driver will actually have enough time to really learn the track and get comfortable with technique. What kind of BS are you referring to exactly?Originally Posted by simontibbett
I'll admit NASA-SE had it's fair share of growing pains in the early days of the region, but things have improved.
IMO, I think it's a terrible idea to recommend that someone go do a three day SCCA license school. The student doesn't actually get enough time to learn how to drive the car, because there are a lot of things that one just can't learn about racing in three days. We had an incident at Road Altanta in August that a "Three day wonder" caused and it tore up three racecars. Oh, and said three day wonder....had already wrecked his other racecar...so a total of four cars by one driver. The other two drivers in that incident had risen though the HPDE ranks and were trying to avoid the guy.
Anyway, there are things that SCCA does well, and thier driver's education program isn't one of them.
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