TCG Fall Track Day Rental | Great Lakes | Friday, October 9th
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I need to review everything. We're already getting up there in entries and I have another 4-5 folks that wanna race. Should be fine but let me just go through all my messages and such.
I spun like crazy coming off the line at the CMC track day. Ran an 8.8 @ 155 but could have done better if I wasn't all over the track in 1st gear. I'm not making a big deal about it, it's a track day and supposed to be fun for all. Just mentioning that the guys who have drag cars will be handicapped by a torn up starting line from street tires.
They made an announcement at the start of the day Tuesday that street cars were supposed to run in the right lane and slick and drag radial guys in the left, but lots either never heard it or came later.
I thought that was a common curtesy at gld left lane is always the best keep it to slicks and dr’s
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How's the fit? I'm kind of between an XL and XXL, if it's roomy I'll go with an XL.
I bought a large and I would say it's just a hair away from being snug. It fits perfect for me, which is rare. But I could see it maybe shrinking a tad.
Hard to say with larger sizes.
Hard to say with larger sizes.
LikeABauce302 , I think it was you who was filling me in on track rental tech?
Maybe relay some of your info to the group as well
Yup, that was me. I organized a track rental last week at GLD.
Tech was was easy going. They only looked for obvious things like batteries not having a secure hold down, loose caps on radiator expansion tanks, etc.
As far as safety equipment goes, just have a helmet, pants, closed toed shoes, and a shirt with sleeves (short sleeves okay, just no tank tops). We had 3 or 4 cars running 8s or low 9s and nobody batted an eye.
They didn't look for driveshaft safety loops, or check SFI cert dates. They also didn't require fire jackets for aftermarket power adder cars.
Best advice I can give is take a good look at your car a couple days before the event and make sure their aren't any obvious issues. The tech inspector probably won't call you out, but nobody wants to be in a lane next to a car flinging parts (this really only applies to us fox body guys
).
I was one of those 8 second guys and the tech guy looked a little closer at my car, but wasn't looking to hassle anyone. He pointed out I didn't have a locking dipstick in the trans, which I'd never heard was needed before. He also checked my belt dates, but said he never holds anyone to it, as the 2 year thing is pretty much a money grab by NHRA. He was cool, I don't think he was looking to give anyone a hard time, just pointing stuff out. He even gave me a list of NHRA requirements he uses for his inspection for the different car classes by ET.
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