10/10ths VIR Full Rolling Start video

Donnie Barnes · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:51 pm

Stacy King wrote:

Can anyone confirm that these are the guys from the midwest... the ones who are/were going to be the "official" track day provider for Bluegrass?

They said in their "thanks for coming" speech at the drivers meeting that they had planned to have ten track day sessions at Bluegrass which got "canceled" or whatever, so it must be.

--Donnie

Stacy King · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:57 pm

Donnie Barnes wrote:

Stacy King wrote:

Can anyone confirm that these are the guys from the midwest... the ones who are/were going to be the "official" track day provider for Bluegrass?

They said in their "thanks for coming" speech at the drivers meeting that they had planned to have ten track day sessions at Bluegrass which got "canceled" or whatever, so it must be.

--Donnie

Did they do any DE groups for this event? Or was it just lapping?

Graham Jagger · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 12:53 am **Posts:** 1718

Stacy King wrote:

Did they do any DE groups for this event? Or was it just lapping?

See his website ---> http://www.1010thsmotorsports.com/

He ran 3 DE groups.
Green, novice with instructor, limited passing on straights.
Yellow, int-adv, passing anywhere with a point.
Red, adv, passing anywhere, no point required.

The rolling start was something he wanted to add so people could get an idea of a race start. Without actually racing. So the deal was not to have cluster-f$%* in T1 with people dive bombing. A drivers meeting was done before it happened. Those that wanted to did. We paired up in advance. Those that didn't were let out on track the following lap. It is just a wrinkle to the way they do it. Whether you agree or not is irrelevant.

They are from the midwest. Putnam Park is their home track. Bill had signed up to do 10 events at Blue Grass and took a beating on that before pulling the plug on BG. He said they have done nothing since the first pass paving. VIR was a fill in and he lost on that too. Next year he wants a spring time event at VIR. Say April or so. He's a small business guy just like you Stacy. Trying to start up a track business and find a marketing angle. He's got Danny Popp and Joe Gaudette on board and a few others. He's talking about some schools and other ideas for next year.

It was a fun 2 day event. You could get 2-3 hours/day on track. At the end of each day from say 4:00-5:30 was open track with yellow group rules. So Novices pretty much stepped back. They still got 2 hours/day.

steve remchak · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:34 pm

Graham Jagger wrote:

Stacy King wrote:

Did they do any DE groups for this event? Or was it just lapping?

See his website ---> http://www.1010thsmotorsports.com/

He ran 3 DE groups.
Green, novice with instructor, limited passing on straights.
Yellow, int-adv, passing anywhere with a point.
Red, adv, passing anywhere, no point required.

The rolling start was something he wanted to add so people could get an idea of a race start. Without actually racing. So the deal was not to have cluster-f$%* in T1 with people dive bombing. A drivers meeting was done before it happened. Those that wanted to did. We paired up in advance. Those that didn't were let out on track the following lap. It is just a wrinkle to the way they do it. Whether you agree or not is irrelevant.

They are from the midwest. Putnam Park is their home track. Bill had signed up to do 10 events at Blue Grass and took a beating on that before pulling the plug on BG. He said they have done nothing since the first pass paving. VIR was a fill in and he lost on that too. Next year he wants a spring time event at VIR. Say April or so. He's a small business guy just like you Stacy. Trying to start up a track business and find a marketing angle. He's got Danny Popp and Joe Gaudette on board and a few others. He's talking about some schools and other ideas for next year.

It was a fun 2 day event. You could get 2-3 hours/day on track. At the end of each day from say 4:00-5:30 was open track with yellow group rules. So Novices pretty much stepped back. They still got 2 hours/day.

so it looked like a horsepower fest. any lower hp cars involved? (you don't count Donnie :lol:

)

how does the fee structure compare?

Bernie Baake · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:24 pm

Bill Neal and the rest of the 10/10ths crowd hail from Cincinnati Ohio. And Putnam park is their home track. I spoke with Bill extensively about Bluegrass and his take on it is that its a no-go. He guesses they ran out of money, as was said earlier they have done NOTHING since the first paving.
To answer Steve's questions:
Figuring that the average amount of track time for the two day event was about four hours, as compaqred to average event track times of less than 2.5 hrs I would say that is well worth while. There were a few cars other than vettes there a civic, a BMW M3, a fox body stang and several C4 vettes. I would expect to see more variety the next time they come, especially if the attendance increases.

Gwen Habenicht · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:07 pm

Hey, Bernie, you big Dummy. There was a little blue Mini Cooper there, remember? And yes, I got all the track time I could handle on my first time out. :wink:

Had a pretty good instructor too. He's just a little forgetful.

RobLupella · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:33 pm

Gwen Baake wrote:

He's just a little forgetful.

Oh yeah, I meant to say brake NOW!!!! :wink:

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