SCCA Track Night in America Back in 2017!
 

The SCCA Track Night in America is coming back in 2017! I'm sure most of you remember that this is a great way of getting on the track and SCCA has made the process as simple and low-cost as possible. The price of only $150 gets you three 20 minute sessions. The events are held at race tracks all around the country and takes place during the afternoon and evening hours on the weekdays.

This year it will make its first-ever visits to Heartland Park Topeka in Kansas and Buttonwillow Raceway Park in Central California. Additionally, after a year’s hiatus, Track Night makes a return to Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park near Phoenix and Willow Springs International Raceway just outside of Los Angeles!

A schedule of events with specific dates for venues can be viewed at https://www.tracknightinamerica.com/events. The calendar will be updated during the season, so keep checking for the latest information. March 1st is when registration is scheduled to officially open!

I also have a $25 off coupon code if you are interested in giving this a try. Thats $125 for an hour of track time. You can’t beat that! PM me for the coupon code if interested.

Definitely will be going to a few of these in the area.

After attending very first event last year, I am looking forward to more this year!

Thanks for the heads up

Soooo looking forward to the HPR events this year and getting my fiance out on track finally.

There are a total of 11 events within 100 miles of me!

And if you're an SCCA member, April events are only supposed to be $50!

$95/hour last weekend :P

Looking forward to this years events at MSR Cresson.

Yay, thanks for the info an link. Looking forward to attending a few of these.

How? Promo code or something?

I would assume. Or it's something to do with your membership #. I can't remember where I saw the info about the April discount...

The $150 cost is pretty good, but it's the track day insurance that gets you. It doubles the price.

It's definitely a good idea to have. I've run a half dozen or so events, but never had insurance. I've seen a few incidents, luckily never in my run group.

Do you have any more info on this?

For the life of me I can't remember where I saw the info. I wanna say it was in the latest Sportscar magazine...

They had Dominion last year but doesn't look like they have it this year.

All April events are $50 for SCCA members based on the info released yesterday. No promo needed. Reg opens March 1st

Hooray someone else has seen it I'm not losing it lol. Where did you see the info?

It's at the top of the page 14 in the March issue of sportscar. Now getting circulated online.

Haha there was a link on Facebook

Oh hell yes, I'm going to try to get time off since this is the case.

Edit: only 1 april event in my region, and its all the way down in portland :(

Track Night just added two more tracks for this year! The road courses at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Gateway Motorsports Park (St. Louis).

These are fun, casual open track events! I went to 3 of them last year at High Plains Raceway (in my e36 BMW).

Probably take my BRZ to at least 1 this year.

Signed up for June 9th at PIR. I bought a helmet at the same time as the price was good, but they are having issues keeping them in stock. Should have it in time for the track, though.


How was the driving in previous events? Any idiots out there?

As with everything, there will be idiots out there. Just remember to point them out to the SCCA reps who are running the event. They seem pretty good in dealing with them.

Also depending on the track, it could be a little crowded. They seem to run more cars per group than what some other events do. I think this is to keep the costs in check. But I have run them where I get in a nice bubble with no cars around for most of the session. But in other sessions, I am in traffic the whole time.

I can only speak for ours, but the events are pretty casual. There are always people that think it is a race and make dumb decisions. And like any open track day, cars that are fast on the straights but slow in the turns, can make it annoying for the better handling cars.

Just go out and have fun, if it gets crowed around you pull off into pit lane and head back out. This will give you some space...that's what I do anyways.

I agree.

Same at the one at Thunderhill, at least in beginner. Each session got us a bit more spread out to where it was a good time by the last session (not to say the others werent but just had more traffic). I plan to attend another in the next group up later on.

Using the hot pits like suggested above usually helps.

The run groups are self-identified, so many novices signed-up for intermediate, and many intermediates signed-up for advanced. More than half of the events I went to had car crashed, and that cutted everyone's track time short. Last month there was a brz t-boned into a spun-out STI, and the brz was totaled while the STI suffered significant damage. I saw many people in the advanced group couldn't even hold their lines... Just be careful.

Sounds worrying...


I did see one event recently have 73 cars over three groups...sounds crazy!

FYI...


I bought the helmet from Black Armor through the TNIA website. The policy states that the cheek pads can be exchanged for ground shipping costs, but Black Armor stated that as the helmet was heavily discounted on TNIA, that the exchange information was wrong and that cheek pads would cost $40 to be replaced.

This sounds like a blast! I will definitely be signing up with my friends, I've been reading up on it. Just came here to see what everyone says about it!

Update: SCCA got involved and I had them exchanged for free.

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