After buying my boxter in the fall and spending the winter and spring prepping it, I finally completed my first HPDE event last weekend. It was put on by Trackdaze at the Summit Point Motorsports Park Shenandoah Circuit. Trackdaze did a fine job organizing and keeping things on schedule and the track was tight, technical, and a lot of fun. I was pleased to find the event entirely free of snobbery, despite everything from Ferraris to MK1 GTIs sharing the road. Everyone was really friendly and eager to share insights and loan tools.
My only prior experience was a few auto crosses about 15 years ago in my old E30. My instructor was a great help. For the first few sessions he had me keeping it in 3rd gear and concentrating on the line and being smooth. After four hours of seat time I was heel-toe braking and feeling much more comfortable. The boxster never complained and I'm sure I was nowhere near its limits.
I was the only 986 but there were a few 911s and my instructor was in a Cayman GTS, which I got to ride along in for a few sessions and was scary-fast.
Here's the video evidence (shot on a Garmin Virb XE):
https://youtu.be/efkUR_6woCs
And a drive-by clip with my race numbers representin' (boy do I need a louder exhaust!):
https://youtu.be/-fAASmW2kS0
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