This event is organized by EMRA (Eastern Motor Racing Assocation) as a Time Trial, which means you will get 3 30-minute practice sessions and then a 2-lap Time Trial. A few of the members of the EpaQC are going to attend as drivers and others as spectators. If you want to join me and the EpaQC, please click on the EpaQC's logo below in my sig and follow the link to the Events page. At this point, the event info. has not been posted on EMRA's web site, but, by default, this is the <a href="http://www.emraracing.org/forms/2002_tt_regi.pdf">form</a> that you will need to complete and mail with the $115 fee. I suggest to wait until you actually pass for the license at the track to pay the $10 license fee (assuming you don't have one). Deadline to send in the form without a $25 late fee is: (post-marked) September 7, 2002.

Briefly, your car will need to pass a tech inspection (remove everything from your car that isn't bolted down, including spare wheel/tools/etc., which I suggest to keep in the paddock area since you may need it), have a helmet with a SA95 or better rating and wear closed shoes, long pants and long sleeve shirt. I was wearing a full race suit, but it got extremely hot and it's not necessary - sneakers, jeans and a cotton long sleeve t-shirt will suffice. If this is your first event with EMRA and you don't carry a license with EMRA or another racing group, you will be put in the student group with an instructor, which was great at my first event since there were only 3 of us = track space. The course is the north turn of Pocono and then a road course in the infield. Please read the rules and regulations on the EMRA page for more infomation.

The driver's meeting starts promptly at 8:30 AM. Thus, allow enough time to get to the track, prep the car, and pass the tech inspection. I suggest if you have more than an hour to travel to the track, stay over night, get a good night of sleep and get to the track by 7 - 7:30 AM.

I seem to be the only one who needs hotel info. So, if anyone wants hotel info., please email me and I'll look further into group rates for us.

If there are others in the philly area who want any work done prior to the event, please also email me and I'll look into requesting some time with AWE or PES on saturday.

I had a blast at the last event; Nazareth. Here are a few pics from the event. My scanner at work isn't that great, but you get the idea.

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Is this reccomended with stock sport supension, stock brakes, and some fairly worn P6000's?

I'd rather be safe than sorry though...any idea on how often they have track days? Maybe by the next one I will be sufficiently modded to get on the track.

who gets dibs to be Todd's student?

Coilovers will help your car stay flatter, however you can learn just as much by taking your car stock, as you can taking it modded. In fact I would even go so far as to say that it's easier to learn weight transfer principles with a soft suspension. The results of your inputs are immediately visible with the softer suspension. This "feedback" will help you learn to provide smoother inputs.

The brakes...well, brakes will make you faster, but you can compensate by braking early to account for the stock brakes...it's not a big deal. You and your car will always have limits, and you'll always need to drive within those limits.

I'm not saying mods aren't good, but they certainly aren't a prerequisite to the whole learning thing. Screw the mods, and just go, you'll have a blast!

Honestly, if Todd does go, he should jump in each person's car. I believe EMRA shuffles the instructor to different cars per session unless you're lucky like me to have a small student class of 3 drivers with 3 instructors on-hand that day. So, we kept the same instructor all day, which helped me improve since the instructor was always there and it was the same person. Sure, it's nice to get some feedback from other instructors, but I've been to events with too many instructors jumping in my car and they all have different techniques, which get's a little confusing.

What I was told if there are more drivers than instructors (for ex. with 3 instructors), the cars with instructors will lead the students around the track and everyone will follow the line given. Then, as each lap goes by and in a passing zone, the driver with the instructor in position #1 will signal to let #2 &amp; #3 pass and fall back to #3 (original #3 is now #2), repeat the process until the session is over. Then, the instructors will get into the cars who didn't have instructors before. This way, everyone gets a chance to lead, pass, be passed, stay in line and drive with and without an instructor.