One of the Mid-Atlantic Alfa Romeo Club’s most popular events has been our weekend of driving with the Vintage Sports Car Club of America. The Alfa Club is known for its trademark “laid back pasta eaters” approach to driving schools. The VSCCA drivers bring their own laid back approach to motorsports with their fleet of interesting old sports and race cars. As in past years, the two clubs share the track. The Alfa Club conducts a driving school that is interspersed with the Vintage Club’s practice, qualifying and race sessions.

This year, our driving school will accommodate novice (including beginner), intermediate, and advanced run groups. Each of our run groups will get three sessions a day, twenty-five minutes each.

Last year's event marked the inception of our small-bore theme. Participants expressed great enthusiasm, so we will again limit the student groups to cars with nominal displacements at or under 3.5 liters. Although some of our best friends drive big cars with big motors, this change will keep the run groups just a bit more homogeneous, reducing speed differentials, particularly at the ends of the long straightaways. (Please note that there is no displacement limitation for instructor cars.)

This format aims to return us to the tenor of our early schools, when the grids were predominantly made up of Alfas and other small cars. So bring your old Alfas & Porsches and your new Miatas, BMWs & Z-cars. Bring them and come mix it up in the paddock with an eclectic mix of vintage racing cars. Join us too for the Saturday evening banquet (again this year, we’ve made the banquet optional in an effort to keep costs down for the basic event).