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The Highway Scool was $95 for a day; Performance School will be $275 for a weekend. This includes track time, instructors, and EMT support. It sounds like the BSR course, http://www.bsr-inc.com/FATT.HTM offers some of the same training, so it should be pretty fun. I will certainly attend the FATT if at all possible, depending on the date. Any training is better than none. I personally would rather spend the money on education than mods at this stage. You can transfer the schooling from car to car
2001 One Lap. ALRIGHT!! I'm in. No really, if I can possibly get ready in time, I think Kirsten and I might do it. We have no chance of finishing well overall (maybe in class though?) but it is a tempting way to blow a little vacay. I wonder if it is feasible?
Kidding.
October would be good. My b-day's in October, so I could even tell the wife that's the present I want!
Mike - you really interested? Lucien?
-juice
I should have plenty of other cool stuff, too, like the strut tower brace, and hopefully the trailer hitch and hitch mounted bike carrier.
-juice
August 4-6: Edmunds Live comes to DC (test drive Forester vs. XTerra, Escape, CR-V, RAV4, and Grand Vitara)
August 12: i Club's Mid Atlantic meet at Dave & Buster's in Rockville
August 26: SCOA's Gettysburg, PA Gimmich Rally
October 13: FATT sounds PHAT to me, Summit Point raceway, WV. Wonder if they consider the Forester an SUV? It's a wagon I tell ya!
October ?: SCOA's Fall Foliage Tour in Charlottesville, VA
'Tis the season to own a Subaru!
-juice
What's this Edmunds Live event? Sounds interesting.
Go to their home page, and follow the link at the top.
-juice
-juice
-mike
http://www1.edmunds.com/
The only Subaru they'll have is the Forester. Too bad, I was kind of hoping to try an RS, maybe a GT also.
No Trooper, either, paisan. Just a Rodeo.
If anyone is going to the event in DC, we're grouping up and heading over there together. Looks like it'll be August 5th, the earliest session, if anyone else is interested.
We have 3 confirmed already.
-juice
-mike
Email me off line for details if you'd like to join up. I didn't realize you lived around here.
-juice
-mike
Sorry you can't make it. However, I laid some of the ground work with a local farmer for "Farm Fling". Chances are better than 50% we're gonna get to play.
- hutch
Cracks me up when I recall you've taken your Outback to the track, and may end up getting it a little muddy on the farm. That used to require two vehicles!
-juice
FLASH FLASH : We will be adding a country drive to the event. It will most likely be 30 to 40 miles around the Gettysburg Area. Details are still being worked out, but driving instructions will be printed out and available to all that attend.
I'm sure it'll all be good though.
-mike
Gettysburg sounds fun. I could even unload the steel rims. I'm sure someone would want them.
If anyone here does, drop me an e-mail. I'd sell 'em cheap.
-juice
-mike
I still have to find out if they consider the Forester an SUV for FATT (Friday at the Track).
-juice
That is the link to the auto-x page we are doing this following weekend.
-mike
PS: if you come up to it, I'll buy the rims and tires from you then...
I've never raced at an event, so I'd probably go once just to get a feel for it the first time. Heck, it may even look silly racing my Forester around at a track with a bunch of Porsches!
Unless it rains...
-juice
-mike
Oct. is getting hairy, so the sooner we kinda know a weekend, the better. Of course, Sundays are preferable
Juice-
Are we solid for FATT? Which day? I'll be there Oct 21-22 for BMW anyway.
1. Watching cars lock their front wheels and burn out the rubber on their rear tires creating massive amounts of smoke (it must have stunk terribly).
2. Spying on young woman in bikinis with a telephoto lens. I imagine the childish photographer found it titillating, but it really was obscene.
3. Watching cars moving very slowly, shooting flames out their dual exhaust pipes. The flames looked like they were sometimes 20-30 feet high--huge--never saw that before.
I couldn't really judge from the tape, but it looked like at least a few hundred people and maybe much more. Concerns about the environment, safety of women and dangers of pyrotechnics aside, I'm all for different strokes. Still, it would have been a very long day for me.
Mary
-mike
-mike
I am curious as to how they got flames out of the exhaust and just how dangerous it is, perhaps not very. As for the tire smoke, they were spraying something under them to encourage it, perhaps just water.
Mary
Lucien: I'll attend the FATT, but I'm not sure I'll race. A little cowardice, a larger dose of modesty. I really feel like some instruction would be in order before putting my primary driver on a track.
-juice
Drag racing can be fun, and most cars don't shoot flames like that. Since the roads are not public, they are not subject to EPA rules, and many cars don't and are towed to the track for this reason.
If you can get close, stand track side and watch them take off (ear plugs a must). They brake-torque for starts, and there is so much torque that the tires are sometimes bolted on to the rims, and the sidewalls actually wrinkle! Many have finger triggers for quick starts, and to see a 5000 lb car lift its front tires accelerating can be, well, not boring.
If you can overlook the infantile stuff (bikinis, flames, smoke, and gambling in the stands), it may be worth going to just for the experience.
Worst case scenario, it's an outlet for speed freaks, and keeps them from doing the same crazy stuff on the public roads we drive our kids on.
-juice
I'd be much more interested in driving the cars myself, but never without a lesson.
Mary
-juice
Thanks
http://www.subaruclub.com
It does sound very intriguing, though. I'd love to try out a kayak, and see the LL Bean models.
On a different note, LL Bean just opened a full service store at Tysons Corner nearby, the first outside of Maine (only outlets existed prior to this one). Apparently, they have a real fly fishing pond (!), INSIDE! I'll have to check it out.
-juice
PS DC folks - don't forget Edmunds Live is this Saturday
p.s. I went AWOL for a family matter in TX last week and had no internet access. Not looking forward to the 129 missed posts on the meet the members area....
Welcome back, Lucien. Lessee, what'd ya miss? My hitch and rear skid plate, plus the Firestone tire controversy (which turns out not to affect the Outback since it uses a passenger car version of the Wilderness tire).
Too bad you can't some Saturday. What about the i Club meet at D&B's the following weekend?
-juice
I'll have to host a BBQ on a Sunday so you come attend SOMETHING.
-juice
I won't be there sat. Where is the D&B thing, could you re-post info, I can probably make it down for that and to pick up the rims/tires.
-mike
I'll e-mail him off-line and get back to you guys.
-juice
For whoever can go, I have some freebies, though not as interesting at the ones from last time. It's at Dave & Busters in Rockville, right on Rockville Pike, in White Flint Mall.
It's also right next to Fitzgeralds, the dealer I always talk about.
-juice
Notice something funny? NO Outbacks, once again! It was the same at Riot Squad's house earlier this year.
It was good fun. Lots of shop talk. I got some good photos for my site (look for those tomorrow).
Next up is the SCOA event, any takers?
-juice