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Student Drivers
Attention prospective students: You must register for the
school at least 10 days before the school. We have a lot of
information for you to study before you arrive. Please register early.
Student registration will not be accepted if after the 10 day out cut
off.
Make sure your car is ready.
You will not have time to beat and bang on your race car during this
weekend.
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Chief instructor:
Know your Flags
At
the completion of the weekend, make sure that
the Chief Steward and your instructor have signed off your Novice Log.
HAVE
YOUR PHYSICAL FORM WITH YOU WHEN
YOU ATTEND
YOUR CLASSROOM SESSION ON FRIDAY.
What to expect
at the school:
After sending in your registration (go to the "Schedule" from the
'Events' menu above and find the event you want to attend; as a
student we need your registration no later then 10 days before the
event) you will
receive a race schedule and other information, as well as a student
packet in the mail. Show up to the races with a clean, "race
ready" car as you will not have time to do major work on the car.
At Texas World Speedway (TWS), you can drop your car
and gear off thursday
night before the event, for a small fee. Else be at the track
early friday morning.
At some point before you take it out on the track your car will have to
go thru a tech. inspection. This involves a safety inspection at
the track, held at the first garage at TWS. Usually takes around
10 minutes, but there is often a line friday morning. Bring your
car, driver suit and other gear also. Snell SA00 label inside the
helmut, no older (i.e. not SA95....). Seatbelts 5 or less
years old. In the entry packet there is a tech form that you fill
out and hand in at the inspection. If you have your Novice Log
book bring that too, else you will get one in the school.
School starts with a meeting, place to be announced, but usually in the
drivers lounge in the first garage. You will have been assigned
an instructor who has a car similar to yours. For the first track
tour session you will go out with your instructor in their street car
to learn the course layout. He/She will give you more infomation
at this time.
Expect to be busy the school weekend, especially friday. This is
why your car has to be ready, including gassed up (gas is sold at the
track. Food and drinks are also sold there, but bring a cooler if
you want as you will find yourself drinking lots of water). You
will be either out on the track or in the classroom almost all day
friday. Although you will get lots of track time, dont worry - it
starts out slow. At first you will be following your instructor
around at a controlled pace, no passing but just track touring as you
learn the coarse and your car. Emphasis is on safety, not speed,
as you learn. We are here to have fun driving our cars quick, but
we want to protect our beautiful cars and each other.
As the weekend progresses you will learn more about driving technique,
proper lines and braking points around the track, being aware of your
surrounding drivers and the signals the corner workers are giving
you. Eventually you will be learning safe passing techniques,
starting techniques and what it is like to race next to your new
friends at speed!
At the end of the weekend be sure to have your instructor and the chief
steward sign your novice log. After the school weekend you will
run as a novice in subsequent weekends. You must successfully
finish three more race weekends without incident, and work a day as a
corner worker, to qualify for a license. The corner work day can
be during one of your race weekends - i.e. enter the car to race one
day, while you work the other day. Notify the corner workers contact to do this. With this, and two
more successful race weekends within a year as a novice you will be
able
to apply for your license.
Send in your entry early as we have to mail you information.
for more info contact the CVAR Chief instructor
know your flags
track maps and photos available on the websites of the tracks, linked
from the schedule in the 'Events' menu above. To talk with fellow
racers, join
our yahoo user group.
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