Drivers Education, October 21, 2017 – “Little Talladega” Raceway
Many thanks to Rick Brooksbank and all the instructors and crew that helped run this show. We took over the Talladega Grand Prix Speedway Saturday, and had a great turnout: 14 Novices, five Intermediates, and four Advanced drivers. The instructors worked well with our Novices, teaching “smoothness brings speed”, and even the weather turned out for us. We had three sessions for each class, and even the instructors got to run their cars.
This great 1.4-mile track offered a great way to really get to know our Porsches! It has lots of runoff and is very safe with nice facilities, and is challenging and instructive course. We had great fun, good camaraderie, and enjoyed scenic drives there and back in spite of all the “fun” interstate travel can be.
Check out the pix, and plan on coming out for our next one, and our upcoming autocross at Dollywood on Sunday, November 5th.
Also, John Kernodle, an automotive photographer, was there, so if you want some great pix, check out his website: http://www.kernodle.photography/
(as of press time, his photos were not up yet, so give him a chance to process).
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- Map of the track
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- Overhead of the track
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- A beautiful start!
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- Red Car No. 1
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- Red Car No. 2
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- Red Car No. 3
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- Red Car No. 4
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- Red Car No… well, you get the idea!
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- Instructor Tiffany’s Racecar
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- Driver’s meeting
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- Instructors take the track to get the feel
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- Rich watches the speed
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- And thanks for the EMS truck!!
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- Last minute checks
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- Tiffany takes Teresa out
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- Turn 3… one of the trickier ones
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- Down the back straight to Turn 6
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- Wings UP!!
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- Turn 6 at speed
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- Next group, Novice 2, goes out
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- The paddock
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- Novice 3 finally gets out there
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- Jonathon took the wheel from Matt for the last two laps
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- Yeah, two drivers on one car takes its toll…
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- Not too shady…
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- Afternoon sessions!
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- Nice slight roll!
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- Yeah, it got worse. Cost Matt his last session…
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- But at least Lucille got Rock Star parking!
