What is crazy is that I am writing my May article and we have yet to have our first DE of the season (Lime Rock). Oh well, I need to keep our editors happy, so here goes. I do not know about you, but at one time I had some trepidation about attending our Mosport […]
IT IS STILL FREEZING COLD AS I WRITE THIS ARTICLE. KIND OF HARD TO THINK ABOUT DRIVING WHEN I STILL HAVE GLACIERS JUST OUTSIDE THE DOOR. But wait, I heard that NJMP is opening their track on March 15 and PCA Schattenbaum is having a DE on March 22. Full Disclosure here: I have attended […]
April is just around the corner and very soon, we hold our first DE of the season at Lime Rock Park on April 9-10. If you did not know it already, here is a little bit of history and factoids about this famous and storied race track. Dreamed up in 1956 by Jim Vaill, the […]
I am sitting here in Vermont thinking and it is currently 5°F on the way to a balmy 19°F. But, I have been thinking a lot about the upcoming DE season and the car projects I want to get done before our first event. I am not sure what was on your Christmas lists, but […]
Wow, time does really fly when you are having fun. I can remember the day when I first joined the PCA as this coincided with me purchasing my first Porsche (a 1997 Guards Red 911 Cabrio with the Cashmere leather interior). . What a car and what a day that was! For the first couple […]
We are well into our 2015 season and plenty of events to go. In my series of driving technique articles, I have covered most of the fundamentals and touched on one or two more advanced techniques. It is now time to dig into Heel-toe downshifting which is not really done with your heel and toe […]
We are busy setting up dates, contracts, etc… for our 2015 DE season and are looking forward to another great season of NNJR track events. Here is a preview of what the season will look like: Mid-winter Introduction to High Performance Driving on January 25th; High Performance Driving Seminar for Instructors and URG drivers on February 22nd; Lime Rock: April 8-9; Lightning/T-Bolt (Instructors and URG): April 27-28.
I don’t know about you, but I am pretty psyched up about our DE 2015 season approaching and getting back on track. Our schedule is set for 2015 and by the time you read this, we would have just held our Instruction to High Performance Driving seminar (January 25, 2015). It is at this seminar we introduce new drivers (and potential drivers) to the world of DE, what is it all about and how to partake in these driving events. If you missed it, here are some of the highlights regarding preparing for a DE event.
Winter had taken a short break last weekend it seemed with temperatures in the high forties for a change. Okay, so it wasn’t the balmy 50 to 60 degree weather that we saw most of last winter, but it was warm enough to wash off the car without it immediately becoming a big blue-green popsicle. The suds washed off remnants of Watkins Glen and New Jersey Motorsports Park, squashed bugs and small black streaks of Hoosiers from days gone by. When the car was finally dry, I carefully covered the 964 and secured it for the rest of the winter.
My trip to VIR started out with a bad feeling. As we all know on Monday, October 29, an unprecedented storm hit New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy left me with no power at home, no power at my office and wondering if the family house at the Jersey Shore was still in existence. I had to leave my wife Robin home alone with only a generator, gas and some operating instructions (of which I tried to make as easy to understand as possible). She knew my son Nick and I had planned to go to Virginia for quite some time and she did not want us to miss the trip. I put our ’86 Martini-themed 911 on the trailer, packed up some tools, clothes and a couple of beers and got on the road to pick up Nick at college in Maryland. I had to maneuver countless detours to get to the highway due to fallen trees in my home town.
this event will sell out.Registration is OPEN for the Car Control Clinic May 5 , 2024. Click HERE. Sign up early, this event will sell out.
INSTRUCTORS -WE. NEED YOU!!!
We are now using MotorsportReg for instructor signup (just like signing up to instruct at a track event).
Even if you signed up at the instructor Seminar in February, you need to sign up in MotorsportReg as well with the link above
