[s-cars] Experience With Audi Club NA Driving Events

[Bruce Mendel]

Greg,

Gotcha, no sweat. But you can't imagine how many hotshoes are out there with zero experience and knowledge that want to skip all the "boring" stuff and go dicing.

You just have to show that resume and get yourself slotted in intermediate.....then you probably go out once with instructor, they sign you off assuming you drive well, and you're on your own.

Starting off in intermediate pretty much guarantees you can avoid the novice classes and exercises. But I won't vouch for how much less you'll avoid eating tires with a nearly two-ton s-car on a track.

Try www.tracquest.com, pretty liberal self-policing rules.

Bruce
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Greg Mercier 
  To: Bruce Mendel ; s-car1 
  Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 10:30 AM
  Subject: Re: [s-cars] Experience With Audi Club NA Driving Events


  Bruce and All, 

   I'm sorry about the tone of my note. Not intended. I'm interested in getting quality track time in my daily driver. I am looking for experiences specific to driver conduct as I feel this is a huge issue at racing event and at some lapping day... This is a show stopper for me. Also I would like to avoid skid pad and other exercises from a time and abuse of tre perspecitve. I don't intend to argue their value. Again its a potential show stopper for me to find out that I have a full day of cone events at a driving event. I've done it and I  will not spend a whole day off from work to do it.  I have other skills that need more work. 

   As for experience, I am moderately experience.  

  1991     - 100cc karting school introduction: Never, France

   

  1992     - Formula SAE              7th  in autocross event

  40th in endurance event ( suspension failure)

                                                  17th overall

   

  1993     - 100cc karting, in Canada

               Testing:    Matched lap times to 5th place Canadian Championship Runner. 

   

  1994     - Formula SAE             2nd in autocross event

  3rd in endurance event heat. 

                                                  9th overall

   

  1995     - Formula SAE 

                          Race:                2nd in autocross event

                                                  1st in endurance event heat.

                                                  

   

  1998     - Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving

                          Grand Prix Road Racing Course, Graduate with 4.0 out of possible 5.0. 



  - 125cc karting, Ohio 

                          1 day practice, <2 seconds slower than top runner. 

   

   2004      - Nurburgring: Survived four laps on The Green Hell.. 



   I'm no Bob Wollek, but please treat me with a minimum of respect. 



  Greg



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