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Old 04-15-05, 04:27 PM
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SCCA Time Trails/PDE Club Racing events

I opened this month's "Sportcar" magazine and found a really cool article about the new "Time Trials" events they're offering. Basically, it looks like its a step between Club Racing and SOLOII. You get all of the safety features of SOLOII (and street cars are allowed), but a little higher speeds on specially prepaired road race courses.

The first step is basically a driving school called the "Performance Driving Experence (PDE). From there, you can enter the "Club Trials" which adds timed competition to the event.

This seriously looks like a fantastic idea. I know I often get frustrated with the lack of "seat time" at SOLOII events, but there's no way I can afford to get into Club Racing... Viola!

It's listed under "Club Racing" on the SCCA page.

http://www.scca.org/

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Old 04-15-05, 10:11 PM
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welcome to my world of racing! its actually really fun. The club I run with is similar to SCCA. For our events it is just like solo2 except well its on a real track. The nice thing is we get 2 3lap practices and then 3-4 real runs usually. Typically our club charges $100 IIRC. just like in solo2 we have a standing start and do 1 lap and then pit in. and do that 3-4 times. I like it better than solo2 for the reason you said of seat time.

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At least with the St. Louis Regions Club Trials event, the participants actually got more seat time than the Club Racing Guys did. 2 20 minute sessions on the Sat. event, and a 20 minute Practice and 30+ minute Trial
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