The NNJR VIR HPDE earlier this month had an LMP racer in the Black or Red run group. There was also a NASCAR Monte Carlo running too. Both were very loud. The owner of the LMP car said he had only recently bought it and wanted to get some seat time before racing it. I hope these pictures don't come through upside down, Apple hasn't been playing nice for me on a PC with Google Chrome.
At a NER Watkins Glen HPDE I saw this car which looks similar to what Tom Stone drove.
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Originally Posted by Greg Holmberg
I've seen quite a few different makes of cars run in PCA "Driving Education" events, but I've never seen a purpose-built car (formula or sports racer/prototype). Check with them, but I don't think they would allow such a low, light-weight car on track with the 3000# street cars for safety reasons. Also very different performance: the street cars would hold you up in the corners, then blow by you on the straights.
Maybe you could run an FST or F600 with NASA. Although even their unlimited class for purpose-built cars is all covered-wheel, as far as I've seen.
A place that's a little lower-stress place to race a formula car would be with the vintage organizations. There's been quite a resurgence in vintage Formula Ford lately.
There are lots of fun purpose-built track toys around with covered wheels that you could probably run with PCA, NASA, etc. Radical, Ariel Atom, Diaso, Exocet, etc. You might look on racingjunk.com, race-cars.com, or bringatrailer.com
Greg
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