The Triangle Z Club / Tarheel Sports Car Club is hosting its last event of 2008 at Carolina Motorsports Park, October 11th & 12th

$325 gets you two days of track, classroom, and wet skid pad time. Lunch is included as well.

Cars that meet our minimum time trial requirements can add the time trial for $30.

If you're not sure you want to subject your car to the track, but you want to come out and have some fun, we're offering a skid-pad only option for $40. This gets you all-day access to our wet skid pad and skid pad instructors. You are also welcome to attend any classroom sessions, and even get a ride with any of our instructors (we have a few helmets we can loan out of you don't have access to an SA rated helmet.) Another $10 gets you a second day.

We run three track sessions per day, minimum 25 minutes each... and we pride ourselves on giving you quality track time during your sessions by limiting the number of cars per run group as well as making a concerted effort to ensure equally placed cars and enforced passing rules.

Our classroom sessions are the best in the industry... we run separate classrooms for each of our four run groups, this allows us to tailor each session to your experience level. We also feel that our in-car instructors are the best in the industry as well.

All experience levels are welcome, especially beginners. CMP is a great beginner track, but also has plenty to offer the track vets out there. CMP's facilities seem to be improving every time we go there... covered pits are available to rent, all paddock access roads have been paved, and the new timing tower/classroom is close and convenient. Not to mention the changes to the track they made this year!!

Email, post, or PM if you have any questions!

ALSO.... if making this a three-day weekend would make the event more desirable (albeit more expensive) please let me know via PM.

 

i am in !

 

oooh, i may have to come to this one. Only this time without the Z. Hopefully be bringing the race car. We need to get some seat time in it before double driving school in 09.

 

What did you end up getting Billy? (Did I miss it somewhere?)

 

nahh you didn't miss it. deal just finally went through yesterday. been kind of quiet on the boards lately with trying to get everything done. ya ever feel like life is just going at about 150mph and not slowing down anytime soon??

anyhow... we bought a car/trailer package out of Colorado. Its a tube chasis car with a pontiac body, real similiar to a SCCA GT-1 Stock car but probably will run in SPO. The chasis is slightly smaller then a stock car, slightly lighter, but has similiar power. Runs a V8 sb chevy, around 465hp. NICE enclosed, a/c, trailer coming with it, however. OK so can you tell we spent WAY over our original target price of 4k??? I think we got a good deal, or so i hope.

 

Some photos from previous CMP HPDE:

 

Something about like this then?

 

Wow Bill,
Between this and the two Panoz GT's, Red Bird, the Ultima, Diasios, and others we have running it should make a fun time

 

I think I may try to make this.

 

that is almost exactly what it is. It actually has a 1999 Pontiac Sunfire Sillohuette body. car will be here Sunday or Monday and we hope to cram in as much seat time as possible between now and Jan. 09.

 

here is a crappy pic of it

 

Bill let me know if you need any help with anything.

 

no roadsters allowed?

 

Sorry man... no, we don't allow convertibles without a 4-point roll bar

 

yeah, none of the clubs around the carolinas do.

 

I'm coming this time.

 

Some of the tracks themselves don't allow them.

 

There are clubs that will allow them, you just have to ask yourself if you want to take the risk. We choose not to allow them, even though (for example) CMP would allow them because the 350Z (assuming we're talking about a 350Z Roadster) has roll hoops... even though they don't come anywhere close to passing a broomstick test.

CMP's Turn One events (usually on Fridays), NASA, possibly PCA... among others I think.

You're welcome to take advantage of our skid pad option, and you can drive it during our parade laps (usually at lunch on Sunday.)

 

Bill, give us some pics. And yes, as I was reading this I was thinking to myself, "he blew the budget, but he sounds happy about it"!

 

Nice!