Shandon
Enthusiast
Well, I have never been to a track before. I have never even realy watched much racing in general before so I was as green a driver as they come. I signed up for the Mid-Ohio event and went a week or two ago. It was awsome!!!! I was a little nerveous at first by all the trailers and high end vipers that were there and thought ohh I might be out of my league here. Well I was way way wrong!! I went with the attitude of needing to learn and thats exactly what I got. As a Green (novice, beginner) you get 4 sessions 1/2 hour each on the track per day. You also get 3 classroom sessions. Skip taught the class sessions I was in and covered everything from oil to apex's. Then came track time, I was very apprehensive about this because I drove my car to the track and I need it to get me back home. I may not owe anything on my Viper but I cann't afford to replace 2K items all over the place either. Being in the green group (any group for that matter if you want) you get an "in car" instructor with headsets. Mark was mine and I had him througout the entire event. Now, not to downplay that Viper Days is a Driving School it is! I had just assumed that my adventure on the track would be kind of lame actually, like not being allowed to go over 80mph or something. Hehehehe NOT!! My first session out after a few rounds through the track, I was hitting well into the 120mph++ on the back straight. It was freaking awsome! Mark and Skip worked on me getting some real world experience on what the GenIII brakes can do
. I would never have imagined these cars can stop like this, nor take turns the way they do and I wasn't even pushing the car. You just cann't truly know what the viper can do until you get it on a track! There seems to be two working issues at hand when on the track. First what the car can do & second what I can do. I learned very fast that the Viper can do way more than I am willing to make it do. There is no pressure to push past your limits and you even get your last 1/2hr session if the instuctor lets you on you own. I met some great people had a great time and the food was great! Im going again! The top was free for me to use from Viper Days just an FYI. I got like 100 photos like the ones below from a sponsor (purchased) on CD I had to shrink them down because they are so high res.!Anyway Too much fun. Call Skip Thomas and/or Courtney (run the Viper Days events). You owe it to yourself and your viper to be the best safest driver with these cars that you can. You will have the time of your life!!!
