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Originally Posted by Ken Robb
"Track days" are fine for drivers who already learned to drive on track with QUALIFIED instructors. Just going to track days without good instruction is akin to picking up a set of clubs and hacking around a golf course to learn to play. In San Diego BMWCCA welcomes non-BMWs to fill classes/grids at auto-cross and driving schools when all spaces are not filled with BMWs but ALL drivers must join BMWCCA.
San Diego PCA (it may apply to all chapters) requires membership in the club and ONLY Porsches can participate in any driving activity.
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Thanks Ken Robb for clarifying and extending the knowledge. Yeah, anybody that thinks they can just get on a track and drive - check first to see if you can get anybody to also be on the track at the same time as you. Nobody wants to run next to some dinghead who doesn't know what he's doin' on the track. NO insurance covers damage done for track activity. HONOR and ETIQUETTE demands participants in track activities NOT sue each other for damages if they happen via contact or a shunt on the track.
I wouldn't touch a open casting call track event run by somebody.
In PCA, nobody drives solo on the track until they have been signed off to do so. Until that time, every PCA drives with an instructor.
Metro PCA always runs Porsches only (but no P-SUVs) at the tracks except for sometimes opening up to include BMWCCA BMWs at Lime Rock, which was done as a courtesy. Track time is expensive and most car clubs don't have the money or the long standing relationships with the tracks as does PCA, especially the larger chapters like Metro.