You might be right about SCCA on the wheel to wheel thing. I'm thinking that NASA's HPDE will be the best place for me to cut my teeth, learn to handle my car and myself, and to work my way up the ladder to w2w racing. I'm thinking that, in 2 or 3 years, I will feel confident enough to race and have a car prepped enough for w2w. its not an overnight undertaking for me. I really just want to have fun, be around the cars and the racing, and soak up all i can.

I was just watching a show on speed last night about the new BOSS 302. I really never knew that mustangs and cameros were that prolific of track cars in the 70's. It seems that the whole trans-am series back in the day was about them two beating up on each other. I will say that in my short time at the track, i have found a respect for american muscle cars that I never had before. My 'street' mentality came form the experience that most mustang I'd come accross out on the road wanted to prove how crappy and slow they thought my car was. I will admit that I, as well as a lot of other guys that fix up hondas, used the mustang as sort of a bentchmark that needed to be surpassed. Well, at least in a straight line drag race. I'm starting to leave all this behind however. The mustang and the civic have their places in history and at the track. The civic is basically a big go cart. It is fun to drive. For it to compete successfully with top teir rear wheel drive cars, it would need to be fundamentally re-engineered. Wild forced induction, v6 swap, one-off suspension from the ground up, possibly even rear wheel drive. Its all been done before but at some point along the way, you are really just building a new car.

I think that HC is not what I thought it would be when I worked my first NASA event. I still want to be a part of it. I would even like to see it grow. I like underdogs I guess. I think that I like the idea of racing other hondas. In actuality, the run groups have you racing other classes as well which ads to it. At this point though, I am itching to race anything since I am not there yet. I won't be able to really answer any of those questions until I progress.