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Discussion in 'Tracking & Driver Education' started by FastLapp, Jul 16, 2014.

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  1. GuyIncognito

    GuyIncognito Ten Time F1 World Champ
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    #26 GuyIncognito, Oct 28, 2014
    well done! enjoy Roebling Road.

    if/when I get back into racing, it will be arrive and drive. all the fun with a tenth the headaches.
     
  2. schao

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    #27 schao, Oct 29, 2014
    Cool, thanks for the update and good luck at Roebling. Enduro in a formula car?
     
  3. FastLapp

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    #28 FastLapp, Oct 29, 2014
    Bertil Roos calls it an "enduro" but it's really not. The race is 90 min with driver change at 45 min mark. I wanted to do the full 90 min but $$$...should be really fun though. Roebling is an awesome track!
     
  4. RotarySwingGolf

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    #29 RotarySwingGolf, Oct 30, 2014
    I've done the bondurant racing school and it's not much more than advanced drivers Ed and there will be lots of very green people on the track with you which will likely hinder your learning so I would give a giant thumbs down for bondurant. They advertise it as a racing school but it's really far from it.
     
  5. IamRobG

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    #30 IamRobG, Oct 30, 2014
    The 4 day? I was thinking about it.
     
  6. RotarySwingGolf

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    #31 RotarySwingGolf, Oct 30, 2014
    Yes the four day. Out of the dozen people in the class only three of us had ever driven on a track before. If you have racing or track experience you will be very disappointed with bondurant. I would consider the for racing school on Utah that nasa used instead of except the guy that runs the course there thinks you should never trail break a car which is stupid and at bondurant that's what they have you do the entire time and focus on it. In the stingrays at bondurant you have to trail break them to get them to turn, the 360 challenge I race I never trail break, it obviously depends on the car.
     
  7. IamRobG

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    #32 IamRobG, Oct 31, 2014
    Good to know, i'm only 2 hours from Lime Rock so i was thinking of skip barber.
     
  8. FastLapp

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    #33 FastLapp, Oct 31, 2014
    At Bertil, there were 17 people for the three driving day and 12 remained for the additional 2 days. I don't remember exactly but there I think there were 2-3 who had no experience. Most everyone had at least done something, whether that would be vintage racing, karting, HPDEs/TT's, racing formula cars (Vees, Skip Barber). And then there were a few younger guys who karted since they were 4 or 5 and who want to be the next Indy star. So, a good bell-curve distribution. I wonder what the crowd in a Barber school is like.
     
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