Just a notion. Need smart people to iron out details., Co-Op Race Track/Tracks. Options

[Silverstreak]

Had this notion driving round town the other day. I Googled it but couldn't find anything on the idea. The way I figure, most sports car enthusiast would love to have a place to stretch their cars legs and test the boundaries without fearing the law or flying off the road into some trees, a ditch, a house or people for that matter. Sadly, where I live anyway there isn't a road course to be found for some 300 miles. And even then you can't get on it without spending a fortune and being there on the right day. My idea, as nieve as it may seem is a road coarse built by the people (funded anyway) for the people. The people being common Joe Shmoe's like ourselves. The concept is pretty simple. You'd have members chip in an initial amount to get the track constructed, then an annual membership fee to keep it maintained. You could then set up a schedule of sort so the track isn't over crowded on any given day (this is one place you'd smart people would come in). There would of course be rules in ordinance with all safety requirements. I think the best place to try such an endeavor would be out West, say California where there's a large sports car community present. But, I supose it could work in a number of places. Keep in mind, I have no idea how much it cost to build a race track or what kind of red tape you'd have to cut through. Anyway, just a thought. Thought I'd try and get the snowball rolling down hill and see how big it got. Thanks for reading. I'd love to hear any input on the topic.
Happy motoring (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) ,
Josh

[carr914]

The 350Z will be a good track car and depending on your PCA region, you can drive it on DE's.

You mentioned your car has VDC. I'll tell you a little story, in 2006 I bought a brand new special edition Honda S-2000. I had driven earlier model years, but I think 2006 was the 1st year for Stability Control. I'm old school and like to be able to feel the car and throw the rear end around, so I always turned the Stability Control off ( I had to turn it off every time I started the car). Well, one day I forgot to turn it off, was going mucho fast down one of my favorite roads. I intentionally threw it into a 90 degree right hander. The car thought I was in a death slide, so the SC kicked in, violently shifting the car left, shot me over an earthen bump, then Airbourne like the Dukes of Hazzard and I ended up in the middle of a lake.

Moral for me; my right foot is the Best Stability Control and I hate computer controlled cars.