2010 Bench Racer's League

[mlomker]

Lomker, do you know of any single-day HPDE's on a big track? The BMW one is 3 days and $350. Pretty big commitment.

Sure, went to birperformance.com's event on Sept 5th. There's a thread about it on here. They do events all summer.

Umm, the one day events are $265 but BIR is the most expensive place to go. Gotta keep in mind that it includes both use of the track and an instructor to ride as co-pilot as much as you want.

If I were you I'd be more concerned about burning up your $1k set of tires than the entrance fee. A day on the track isn't cheap even if you aren't off-roading.

[blackrosenova400]

Im in for MAP's event

That'd be cool, but it seems barely 4-5 people want to commit to going to various events as it is! Again, this is for first-timers, no shoot-out, just get to the track, learn the process, have fun, etc.

I'm hoping we can go in full force to MAP's event this year, that would be pretty fun.

[TkrPerformance]

I would be up for something this year

Problems. Work weekends and 2nd shift will be hard to get off of work. Don't know what they would say about my car or if it would be let onto any track.

I would be up for a few drag events and mabe autox if it was just a test day. There is no way my car would be able to compeit with all that is done to it.

I would have to find rear axels and have the shipped here for spares just incase. And I would have to bring the car on a trailer to events since I just can't go to the parts store and buy evo 3 parts

[scheides]

Sure, went to birperformance.com's event on Sept 5th. There's a thread about it on here. They do events all summer.

Umm, the one day events are $265 but BIR is the most expensive place to go. Gotta keep in mind that it includes both use of the track and an instructor to ride as co-pilot as much as you want.

If I were you I'd be more concerned about burning up your $1k set of tires than the entrance fee. A day on the track isn't cheap even if you aren't off-roading.

Hrm that sounds like fun! The tires, brake pads, fuel, track insurance and lodging are premiums that shy me away from HPDE's. If I had more $$, I'd more strongly consider doing them. This is why I feel like the bench racer's league will focus more on drag events and autoX. Barring breakage, they should be relatively cheap to attend.

[goodhart]

I would be down for drag 100% with the Talon. I would also like to attend some Auto-X with the WRX.

Brainerd works perfect for me, as its only about an hour from St. Cloud.

Concerns: Hope my ACT 2600 will hold up and hope these Falken Ziex-912's will give me traction (probably not) So I would most likely need a new set of tires also, which sucks because these Falken's are pretty much brand new...

[Constant_Project21]

I'm down for brainerd as well. I had a blast last year racing, even though my car was slow as bawls. I have 8-10 friends that are pumped to be out there to spectate, and hopefully a couple cars out there as well (snoman181 has 2 cars yet to be finished, and scorcho96 hopefully can bring his). Can't make commitments for them though.

Concerns: Getting my car back together lol. If you guys have looked at my project thread, I have quite the list to accomplish in spring, and still need that one thing to make it all happen...money. I won't know a work schedule, until I get a job. So I'm making no big promises at this point.

Drag: Im down for at least the proving grounds event, had a great time last year, and let's just say, my group of friends likes to party, so when the sun goes down, and the cars are all off the track, we will be doing a bit of drinking haha. I may try and get out to a rock falls event or 2, race some honduhs.

Auto-x: We'll see. I'm doing a lot of maintenence come spring, and would like to maybe get to one event.

[Kracka]

Fun idea. Scheides, I know we've talked about this before but the most fun auto-x events to attend are the test n tunes at DCTC as you have mentioned above. Unlimited runs and you only have to work the course for ~1.5 hours so that leaves you ~5 hours to do runs. They're a little pricier to attend but well worth it since they have 2 courses going at once (generally one more technical and the other faster) both just under a minute in length if I recall correctly.

[Matt D.]

The car is just too much for a road course
Whaaaaaaat? Is it too much for a straight line, too?
auto x or anything else.
I will agree with you there, autocross and turbo lag are like oil and water.

[cmspaz]

The other thing about the T&T events is that you need to be a MAC member to sign up in the first place, which is $30 per year.

[At-Least-It's-An-Evo]

Drag, autox, road course, drift. I'll do 'em all!