Nuff! Let's talk about: track activities!

["'*Tess*' Teresa A McMillan" <tessmc@u.washington.edu>]

The sum total of my track experience so far has been a driver's
training day sponsored by the local BMW club and held at Bremerton raceway.
The morning was spent rotating through four training stations:  skid pad,
slalom cones, trail braking, and threshold braking; the afternoon was
spent doing hot laps around an SCCA course.  And yeah, while it was my
first time (so I drove conservatively, what do you expect?) and I have
stock woosie everything, with my AWD and ABS I blew those tricked out M3's
and M6's away on the skid pad and in the corners.  (In fact, did I tell
you this story already?  while driving laps, an M3 eager to pass me chose
to do so on the short straight before the slaloms... ergo he was going too
fast into the first cone, was set up poorly at the second cone and stood
on his brakes to try to correct.  So sorry.  He locked up, skidded
sideways, grabbed the grass, then blasted himself backwards into the
concrete retaining wall, taking the rear of the car off in the process.
This was a fairly exciting indoctrination for me, being 20 or so feet
behind him.)

So, the meat of my question:  I'm signed up to do a *Quattro* track event
with the local Q club, again to be held at Bremerton.  Have any of you
Seattle locals been involved in this event before, and can you describe
what kind of driving takes place?  Do drivers get grouped based on
experience (I hope), and are there very many novice drivers (like me)?  Do
you know if they use an SCCA coned-off course?  After the BMW event, and
after all the time I've spent with my Alfa friends, I've noticed that Alfa
people are logic-oriented tweakie-freakies, and very laid back; while the
BMW people tend to macho themselves way out of proportion (and are a
little lax on safety IMHO); my BF's Porsche group friends have way too
much money for their own good, but they are maniacal about safety and
can blow you off the track in 3rd gear (I guess they need to be maniacal
about safety).  I have no experience with the Quattro club, and I'd like to
know what the mix of people has been at prior events.  Any ideas?

This is something I'd really like to know about ... although I hesitate
posting this message, as the last time I posted, for some reason I got
unsubscribed from the digest list!  Go figure.

Tess
'87 Alfa Spider Graduate (Olive Oil)
'88 80 Quattro (MissQvious)