Holy crow!
So....as I kept improving with the Cobra this year and making more changes to it to make it better at track days. I kept raising the bar and getting more confident....
I signed up for the SCCA Drivers School at Watkins Glen and rented an SCCA Legal Spec Racer Ford. It looked like a fun car, and it was a Ford
But I wondered - would it be scary? How would it handle? Only having 100 hp but weighing in at a mere 1600 pounds, would it be fast?
WOW!!! What an awesome race car! 100% on my must purchase list now before next season.
Anyway, I ran the drivers school - finished 1st place in my group and 3rd overall out of 12 cars. I had the pole position for my group which was cool
I got signed off too on my first drivers school!!
Ran the regional race on October 6 - and oh-my-gosh! It make track/HPDE seem so tame
What a great time.
I qualified 10th place, then during the race - someone blew their engine right in front of me and i got sprayed with smoke/
oil and took a really lousy turn #1 at WGI and got passed by many cars. I then passed many cars on the way back up to maybe 10th or 8th place overall. And then - I spun the SRF in the boot at WGI! No damage and No Contact, but I got sit there for about 90 seconds and watch everyone go by me
And that was the next to last lap - so I finished 21st out of 26. But I would have been closer to 10th had I not spun - don't they all say that?!
scca last chance 100612 - YouTube
There is a video link to the Regional. THe good part is at the 10 minute marker
Thanks again for the advice/etc as I was moving the Cobra through track days this year!
Looking forward to next year, HPDE again with the Cobra and running another race to get my Regional License! Maybe run and gun next year too!!