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[seningen]

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

SRF's and Radical's run at COTA in Schnelfest regularly. I think it just has to NOT be open wheel.

[Greg Holmberg]

Originally Posted by seningen

SRF's and Radical's run at COTA in Schnelfest regularly. I think it just has to NOT be open wheel.

Yes. JayG was asking about open-wheel formula cars, Formula First (FST) and Formula 600 (F6). None of the examples people have cited here are open-wheel cars. I can't imagine running a 700 lb open-wheel car (F6) with the street cars.

Greg

[husker boxster]

Originally Posted by seningen

SRF's and Radical's run at COTA in Schnelfest regularly. I think it just has to NOT be open wheel.

I ran in the Advanced DE / Club Race at COTA a few yrs ago and there were some of these in my run group. There was also one at Indy a few yrs ago. They make a lot of noise but are easy to miss in your mirrors.

We actually had one sign up for a DE we hosted at RPM in 2018. I'm registrar for our region and I contacted our safety chair to see what he thought. I said it should be OK as long as the driver didn't tuck directly behind someone. Very easy to hide that way. But visibility is good if they sit half way to one side and "present themselves". Our safety chair had a discussion with the guy about safety and being seen and after talking to the driver was fine with letting him attend (the guy was from CHI). We also had a discussion in the driver's mtg, as our members weren't used to having to watch for someone like this. It all worked out and everyone had fun. Good experience for our group.