Norm Peterson
corner barstool sitter
Kerry - Track Night in America is a NON-COMPETITIVE event primarily intended for fully street-legal cars and is an easy and relatively inexpensive way for people who have little or no track driving experience to be introduced to driving on a real track. The 'relatively inexpensive' part helps keep people like me (fully retired) coming back, and as it happens I'm getting things ready for a TNiA event this coming Thursday.
HPDE is not a race environment. Maybe closer to a brisk drive in the country as fast as you're comfortable going, minus things like oncoming traffic, stray pedestrians, utility poles at pavement edge, and speed enforcement.
The people who stick with it will eventually bump their preparation and the tuning of that prep upward (your option #3). But like most of us HPDE drivers, I doubt that RJ has a crew chief or a race engineer on speed-dial. Which leaves places like this to help figure out how to proceed.
Yes, RJ's car is modified . . . very lightly and less than many street driven only Mustangs. Yes, it's probably all wrong for racing in any of the series that you've done. But that doesn't make it unacceptable for HPDE. Just not as good or as fast as it could be, which kind of comes 'round to post #1.
Norm
HPDE is not a race environment. Maybe closer to a brisk drive in the country as fast as you're comfortable going, minus things like oncoming traffic, stray pedestrians, utility poles at pavement edge, and speed enforcement.
The people who stick with it will eventually bump their preparation and the tuning of that prep upward (your option #3). But like most of us HPDE drivers, I doubt that RJ has a crew chief or a race engineer on speed-dial. Which leaves places like this to help figure out how to proceed.
Yes, RJ's car is modified . . . very lightly and less than many street driven only Mustangs. Yes, it's probably all wrong for racing in any of the series that you've done. But that doesn't make it unacceptable for HPDE. Just not as good or as fast as it could be, which kind of comes 'round to post #1.
Norm