What you are looking to do is called touring laps. You can definitely do touring laps in a van. You could also just pick an appropriate vehicle for track use.
What you are looking to do is called touring laps. You can definitely do touring laps in a van. You could also just pick an appropriate vehicle for track use.
Heck, there was a Caravan at VIR fairly recently. Pretty sure that was through NASA.
Racebrick said:What you are looking to do is called touring laps. You can definitely do touring laps in a van. You could also just pick an appropriate vehicle for track use.
The challenge with touring laps or parade laps is that there are other vehicles on track, and that's been identified as a problem. Of course, there's no passing allowed so it's not like you need to worry about someone coming up the inside.
Does TNiA have vehicle limitations?
Just to be clear, you haven't been "banned", the tracks and organizations have regulations in place and if your vehicle doesn't meet those standards then you can't take it on track. It's not specific to you in any way.
How hard and fast is the "without other cars" rule? I mean, it's difficult to do that with my track car.. I'm not sure how I'd go about getting a track to myself without renting it.
If you just want to drive your van on the track, show up at a Track Night in America session, don't draw attention or make a big deal of it, and go out in the parade laps in the middle of the event. You will be in a line of cars, driving at a "normal" pace. No one will be passing, so limited rear visibility doesn't matter.
If you're talking about actually participating in a track day, yeah, you're going to be in for some trouble. As Johndej says, it's not you, but the rules for track-day acceptable vehicles exist for a reason.
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We have a track and we'll be on it sooner than you think..
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Editors, this is your last chance to get involved with this as I need someone from Grassroots or Classic to contact me today if they want in on this.. otherwise you'll have to do like everyone else and watch the videos afterward..
With the eventuality of the van being driven on a racetrack in a few weeks. Come rain or snow, we will be driving the van on the track. Plus because we have free rign of the track, The wife and I are going to team up to take turns driving the van and taking videos as well as still of this event at differant locations form the track.
I’ve updated my youtube channel just for the video uploads.
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