by swaltner » Sun May 04, 2008 4:48 am
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Of the tracks listed, VIR stands head and shoulders above the rest. VIR is a place that must been seen and enjoyed.
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Tim and Spaz, thanks for the votes on VIR. I asked one of the Porshe owners at work the same question and he also said VIR was a great track, but I don't think he had actually been there.
I'll definitely keep an eye on the events board here to see when folks might show up at Hallett during the year. It's a pretty quick trip down from Wichita. The trip down was just a little over 2 hours taking the State/US highways and avoiding the Interstate (and toll roads).
My current car is actually a Dodge Ram 1500 Quad-Cab pickup, so it's not really what you'd call a performance oriented vehicle.
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With the recent gas prices, I've actually been putting more miles per year on my 1995 Honda VFR750F motorcycle, which has a similar power to weight ratio of the base configuration of the Atom. The VFR750F (minus me) comes in at 97 hp and weighs 523 pounds.
The HST Series at Hallett sound interesting. Tim, being an instructor, does that mean you ride along giving pointers, or is this just class-room instruction? I looked through
http://hallettracing.net/hsts.html, but didn't really see that addressed. I did see the reference that you could take a passenger along during the HSTS, which is part of why I was confused about your role as an instructor. A couple friends at work have performance cars (Porshe, Corvette Z06), so I might be able to talk them into letting me borrow their car for a weekend. I doubt that's really an option, I'd be afraid to loan a car to a friend to take to a track, so I might not even ask and put them in the position of deciding. If that wouldn't work out, I guess there's always a the option of renting something like a Mustang, Corvette, or 350Z from Hertz for a weekend.
Thanks again for the responses.
Steve
[quote="twebb"]
Of the tracks listed, VIR stands head and shoulders above the rest. VIR is a place that must been seen and enjoyed.
[/quote]
Tim and Spaz, thanks for the votes on VIR. I asked one of the Porshe owners at work the same question and he also said VIR was a great track, but I don't think he had actually been there.
I'll definitely keep an eye on the events board here to see when folks might show up at Hallett during the year. It's a pretty quick trip down from Wichita. The trip down was just a little over 2 hours taking the State/US highways and avoiding the Interstate (and toll roads).
My current car is actually a Dodge Ram 1500 Quad-Cab pickup, so it's not really what you'd call a performance oriented vehicle. :( With the recent gas prices, I've actually been putting more miles per year on my 1995 Honda VFR750F motorcycle, which has a similar power to weight ratio of the base configuration of the Atom. The VFR750F (minus me) comes in at 97 hp and weighs 523 pounds.
The HST Series at Hallett sound interesting. Tim, being an instructor, does that mean you ride along giving pointers, or is this just class-room instruction? I looked through http://hallettracing.net/hsts.html, but didn't really see that addressed. I did see the reference that you could take a passenger along during the HSTS, which is part of why I was confused about your role as an instructor. A couple friends at work have performance cars (Porshe, Corvette Z06), so I might be able to talk them into letting me borrow their car for a weekend. I doubt that's really an option, I'd be afraid to loan a car to a friend to take to a track, so I might not even ask and put them in the position of deciding. If that wouldn't work out, I guess there's always a the option of renting something like a Mustang, Corvette, or 350Z from Hertz for a weekend. :angel:
Thanks again for the responses.
Steve