Couple short clips of me @ road atlanta yesterday

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Yeah I think it's a mazda event, it's on may 5. Scca I feel babies you too much and you don't get much track time and they don't offer it frequently enough. I plan to do more nasa

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Yeah I think it's a mazda event, it's on may 5. Scca I feel babies you too much and you don't get much track time and they don't offer it frequently enough. I plan to do more nasa

The PDX program is for workers/volunteers to get seat time or for car guys and girls to get out and pay very little for some seat time, there's larger PDX programs around the country, I think there was even a full PDX weekend in the Atlanta Region at AMP last year, but Road Atlanta SCCA weekends are meant for racing and fitting the PDX in on Sunday when you can't race just makes sense. If you want real track days run Chin, MVP, etc. Since there's only what four SCCA weekends at Road Atlanta, you only get four PDXs. lol $100.00 for 40 minutes isn't bad at all, plus the likelihood of some dingbat flying into you at a PDX is FAR less than I've seen with a couple of other clubs.

As for babying, not sure what you mean, they definitely don't want wrecks and the PDX typically sees a lot of BRAND NEW people, so they may gear the meetings more towards them, but if you're running solo there's no babying to be had.

I hope you like NASA. Really though, try one of the hardcore groups if you want real seat time. PDX here is more of a stepping stone or cheap fun.

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The PDX program is for workers/volunteers to get seat time or for car guys and girls to get out and pay very little for some seat time, there's larger PDX programs around the country, I think there was even a full PDX weekend in the Atlanta Region at AMP last year, but Road Atlanta SCCA weekends are meant for racing and fitting the PDX in on Sunday when you can't race just makes sense. If you want real track days run Chin, MVP, etc. Since there's only what four SCCA weekends at Road Atlanta, you only get four PDXs. lol $100.00 for 40 minutes isn't bad at all, plus the likelihood of some dingbat flying into you at a PDX is FAR less than I've seen with a couple of other clubs.

As for babying, not sure what you mean, they definitely don't want wrecks and the PDX typically sees a lot of BRAND NEW people, so they may gear the meetings more towards them, but if you're running solo there's no babying to be had.

I hope you like NASA. Really though, try one of the hardcore groups if you want real seat time. PDX here is more of a stepping stone or cheap fun.

I agree. The SCCA PDX is just a time filler on sundays and is more for beginners, and while I am a beginner I'm at the point where 2 sessions is just a tease and I'm just starting to get warmed up. Nasa events seem much more fun, and have way more people that attend since they do HPDE 1-4 and TT as well. It seems that there are much more experienced people in NASA, and I can probably learn more from them being in that environment and running against faster cars. Also SCCA doesn't seem to offer full day PDX events like how NASA and chin and tracksunlmt and hooked on driving offer. I plan on doing that may event, and possibly 1-2 NASA events and well as the santa run in Dec.

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I agree. The SCCA PDX is just a time filler on sundays and is more for beginners, and while I am a beginner I'm at the point where 2 sessions is just a tease and I'm just starting to get warmed up. Nasa events seem much more fun, and have way more people that attend since they do HPDE 1-4 and TT as well. It seems that there are much more experienced people in NASA, and I can probably learn more from them being in that environment and running against faster cars. Also SCCA doesn't seem to offer full day PDX events like how NASA and chin and tracksunlmt and hooked on driving offer. I plan on doing that may event, and possibly 1-2 NASA events and well as the santa run in Dec.

That's because SCCA is primarily racing while a NASA weekend has two race groups then HPDE/TT. SCCA does offer full PDX weekends, but not at Road Atlanta. NASA has a good program, but I've just seen too many iffy things, I'll run their enduros (running all three this year) but...

As for experience, in HPDE sure NASA has more experienced drivers as many run a whole HPDE season. Racers...that's debatable. :p

The NASA santa run or the little local santa run thing?

Check out MVP Track Time as well, fantastic group, they're doing RA twice, Chin is there a lot this year, BMWCCA may be back, they offer by far the best instructing/learning program in the track day business. Loads of seat time too.