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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
I don't EVER want to share a track with any driver in a Viper who's never learned the difference between driving and driving.
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What does that mean... Who cares what kind of car they are in...
Have you ever been to a NASA HPDE? $4!+ goes on in all those groups and the perpitrators are in vehicles of every shape size and level of preperation.
IMHO the issue is that they put to many cars on course with an insuficient quantity of instructors, and few if any controls on who is allowed in each group. Hopefully are event will not have those issues.
You don't get to pick and choose who is in your run group. You only have the choice of who you drive near by way of controling your position on the track, and being aware of other car's position on the track.
It's all about instruction and controls IMHO. At Quattro club events we run 3-4 run groups/experience levels, Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced, and Instructors. All student groups have an instructor in every car. Advanced students can be signed off to Solo with the approval of 2 instructors at a given track, but are never required to run alone. Also no one is allowed to carry passengers except instructors.
NASA lets run goup 2 out with no instructors, and passengers last I knew. Not the thing I want, someone fairly new to performance driving trying to impress his buddy...
I don't know what the issue is with Vipers, an idiot in a BMW can put you in the wall just as easily, ask Gary.