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Originally Posted by GrandSport
If time is a premium and you want a lot track time per day, look into private memberships.
My track is open 75%-85% of weekends I want to go. $300/mo and it's all I care to drive and I have the option of having a garage at the track. I can easily do 3 hours a day. I can also just go on very short notice. My buddy called me yesterday at 6pm and we decided to go.
It's a better quality of track time too. They're 30 min on/off sessions, so a smaller percent of it is your out lap and cool down lap. Plus, the field is much less crowded.
Only real downside is you won't run as many different tracks. It's not that you can't- you're just as free to go somewhere else one weekend, but you get spoiled. I honestly wouldn't run an HPDE day if it was free. It's not worth my time to sit there all day to run 5x 20 min crowded sessions (5 min of which are wasted getting on/off and one session is always cut short due to to someone screwing up).
You'll also make friends with people who are members at other track and ride their membership.
But it's not really worth it unless you know you're going to do a lot of track days. At least one a month imo. Then you're close to break even compared to most HPDE and get much more time and more quality track time. The $300 garage also saves me a ton of headache, time, cost of a trailer and storing a car + trailer (I live downtown so it's not easy)
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Thanks, that's very inexpensive, I would check out if it's offered in nearby tracks.