NASA club day at Infineon

What level is this compared to SCCA?

Strnge wrote in post #2752595
Jeff,

Which club is NASA?

Were you down by the track? Most of Infineon is too far away from the track to get good shots from what I heard. I have been there once back in 98. Where were you shooting at? Are there more than once good shooting locations for us regular Joes?

I walked around pretty much the whole track. A few of the head on shots were from the exit of turn 10 in a credentialed photo hole. The rest of the shots were from spectator areas. There are good spectator shots to be had at turn 1, 2, 3a, 4, 6, exit of 7, 8, 8a, and 9. These don't all have the best backgrounds and having a longer lens helps at a few of these spots (I shot with the 100-400 that day). A lot of these end up being pan shots, but you can get away with a shorter lens for those type shots.

As already posted: http://www.nasaproraci​ng.com/ is the club that was there. They are smaller and much newer than the SCCA. They have fewer classes to race in but what they do have, really encompasses a lot of different types of cars and modifications. The also do HPDE (High Performance Driving Event) or track days for the regular guy who wants to get his car on the track. Plus they have added time trials, which I think is also open to street or race cars. Of course classification depends on modifications. It's a nice club to be involved with but it does not offer (at least at this point) the same level of competition as the SCCA. They (SCCA) have just been around for so long and are so well established that it makes it difficult for some other club to get in on the action.

Jeff

agreed, NASA is basically a msaller SCCA. It seems to me that they are also more willing to "try" out new ideas and different types of racing. If you can present them with enough cars they are willing to make a class for it, pretty cool.

thanks

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