2019 Ontario Time Attack Season

[Frost]

Hey folks!

As some of you may know by now, the 2019 Ontario Time Attack (OTA) season schedule is now up!

OTA Time Attack School - May 11th
Event #1 = TMP - May 25th
Event #2+3 = DDT (1 kink + 0 kink) - June 8+9th
Event #4 = TMP - July 13th
Event #5 = CTMP GP - July 27-28th
Event #6+7 = SMP (Pro + Full) - Aug 24-25th





As usual, we will have our open house event at JRP in Mississauga from 11:30 to 2:30pm for people to take advantage of EARLY BIRD PRICING, register, ask questions or get help with classification and meet your volunteers who will be running the season!



Come on out to meet us and if any of you have questions, feel free to send them my way via PM or post here!

Looking forward to seeing more FRZs out at our events!

Cheers.

Kevin Wong
2019 OTA Chief Timer

[Muskoka800]

Date pls?

[Frost]

Originally Posted by Muskoka800

Date pls?

It's on the pictures?

Event #1 = TMP - May 25th
Event #2+3 = DDT (1 kink + 0 kink) - June 8+9th
Event #4 = TMP - July 13th
Event #5 = CTMP GP - July 27-28th
Event #6+7 = SMP (Pro + Full) - Aug 24-25th

In order to drive all OTA events you must have either attended the OTA driver school OR have attended another recognized driving school (eg: Trillium, Hanson, Ian Law, PADA, etc.).

In order to drive the GP track, you have attended the OTA GP school in the past (none this year sadly) OR attended another GP school (Trillium, JRP days, etc.).

Both of the above will likely still require sign off by an OTA instructor before you are allowed to compete.

[v1beeee]

Originally Posted by Frost

It's on the pictures?

Event #1 = TMP - May 25th
Event #2+3 = DDT (1 kink + 0 kink) - June 8+9th
Event #4 = TMP - July 13th
Event #5 = CTMP GP - July 27-28th
Event #6+7 = SMP (Pro + Full) - Aug 24-25th

In order to drive all OTA events you must have either attended the OTA driver school OR have attended another recognized driving school (eg: Trillium, Hanson, Ian Law, PADA, etc.).

In order to drive the GP track, you have attended the OTA GP school in the past (none this year sadly) OR attended another GP school (Trillium, JRP days, etc.).

Both of the above will likely still require sign off by an OTA instructor before you are allowed to compete.

Would SPDA ATTS count as driving school?

[wparsons]

Originally Posted by v1beeee

Would SPDA ATTS count as driving school?

Nope, you'd still need to be signed off in morning lapping at your first OTA event. Same goes for any school other than the OTA school.

Sign off is basically:

Do you know what all the flags mean?
Can you talk your way around the track and hit the points you're talking about?
Do you understand how passing works.

If you've been through an SPDA day and were allowed to run alone you're probably in decent shape, but it's not a guarantee.

All that said, there's usually a few CASC approved instructors at SPDA days that could go out for a few laps and make sure you're ready as well.

[Frost]

Originally Posted by v1beeee

Would SPDA ATTS count as driving school?

What Will said.

A good chunk of the SPDA instructors are also OTA instructors so we can likely get you looked at ahead of time. Just ask around and they'll point you to one of us.

[v1beeee]

So basically I'd need need an instructor sitting with me in the morning of my first OTA event to be signed off?

I've done about 3-4 SPDA days

[Frost]

Originally Posted by v1beeee

So basically I'd need need an instructor sitting with me in the morning of my first OTA event to be signed off?

I've done about 3-4 SPDA days

If you've done 3-4 SPDA days and were signed off to be on your own, then yeah, we'd probably just sit in with you to get you signed off but I still highly recommend attending the OTA school to get some formal training. Have you done any other school?

[wparsons]

Originally Posted by v1beeee

So basically I'd need need an instructor sitting with me in the morning of my first OTA event to be signed off?

I've done about 3-4 SPDA days

Originally Posted by Frost

If you've done 3-4 SPDA days and were signed off to be on your own, then yeah, we'd probably just sit in with you to get you signed off but I still highly recommend attending the OTA school to get some formal training. Have you done any other school?

More seat time is always a benefit, and the OTA instructors will go beyond what the SPDA instructors usually cover (on purpose, the days serve different purposes).

[Frost]

Yeah at the OTA school we cover a lot more than simply getting you out on the track safely and keeping track of people behind you for a lapping day. OTA is more than just a lapping day obviously and the skill level of drivers is considerably higher on average.

[GibbsFRS]

Originally Posted by Frost

OTA is more than just a lapping day obviously and the skill level of drivers is considerably higher on average.

This. I felt like I learned more in my first OTA event than I did in 3 years of being stuck at a wall.

[Frost]

Originally Posted by GibbsFRS

This. I felt like I learned more in my first OTA event than I did in 3 years of being stuck at a wall.

Yeah, I thought John P. was giving me some marketing BS when he told me to sign up for competition at OTA to take my driving to the next level.

I did.

My PB's have never dropped this hard before nor have I been inspired so much to watch great drivers take relatively stock vehicles to ridiculous heights (eg: Chris P.) and others like Kevin M. with his highly modified 'car' to his level as well.

[Bent42]

Originally Posted by Frost

In order to drive the GP track, you have attended the OTA GP school in the past (none this year sadly) OR attended another GP school (Trillium, JRP days, etc.).

Both of the above will likely still require sign off by an OTA instructor before you are allowed to compete.

Does the Driveteq program qualify? I missed last years OTA GP school, trying to see which events I can get in this year.
Thanks in advance

[Frost]

Originally Posted by Bent42

Does the Driveteq program qualify? I missed last years OTA GP school, trying to see which events I can get in this year.
Thanks in advance

Driveteq can qualify - who was your instructor and did they give you a report card?