Guys, Here's your chance--maybe your only chance this year--to run the full course (all 3.27 miles of it!) at Virginia International Raceway. Just about the only full-course events at VIR this year are expensive driving schools or Porsche Club days that are probably already full.

But Viper Days is running a three-day HPDE, July 18-20. I got in touch with them and asked if they'd allow a non-Viper to run with them, and they said sure. I asked if I could tell all of my 350Z friends, and they said sure.

So come on out and run with the Vipers!

Saturday and Sunday look like standard HPDEs: classroom sessions and multiple run groups divided by experience. Four half-hour sessions each day, totalling two hours track time.

But if you can get there Friday, they have something I've never done before: long hot-track sessions. Go out and drive as long as two hours at a stretch. Once in the morning, once in the afternoon. Four hours of track time in one day. Wow! (This is for advanced drivers only.)

So here's the fine print and the downside. Because of the power difference between the Vipers and the Zs, they said we'll have to run in the rookie groups on Saturday and Sunday, regardless of experience level. (However, they did say that I have enough experience--three years of HPDEs, a Skip Barber--to run in the Friday sessions.)

The downside is the price: it's a bit more expensive than other events I've run (except Skippy B): $175 for a half day on Friday, $250 for all day, $300 for Saturday or Sunday, $615 for both Sat. and Sun. But on the upside, the price includes meals: Friday night catered reception, Saturday night sit-down catered dinner, two catered lunches at the track and trophies!

I'm really pumped, because I've never been to VIR and everybody keeps saying how great it is. I've signed up for Friday and Saturday. I hope a bunch of you will come out too, so we can show these Viper guys a thing or two about the 350Z.

Use this link to get more information, and this one to register. Don't wait too long! It looks like some of the local hotels are beginning to fill up.

See you there!

 

BTW, I'll be on a business trip until May 18, so I may not be able to post any new replies before then.

 

What's up? No one else up for this?

 

It sounds like a blast, esp. the friday event.
Just about have to bring a 2nd set of tires along.

I'll see if I can make this event. The friday format is hard to pass up.

 

It sounds great, James. But I think it's too far and too expensive for me. I don't have enough experience to run the open track on Friday -- and that sounds like the best part! Hopefully by next summer I can do something like that.

 

Sounds great, unfortunately I am going to be out of town for work thru that Saturday, otherwise I would be there.