Mid-Atlantic Alfa Romeo Club on VIR North 2009
Virginia Int'l Raceway-North CourseAbout this event
(3.5 Liter Displacement Limit on Student Cars)
Intermediate through Advanced Run Groups
One of the Mid-Atlantic Alfa Romeo Club’s most popular events has been our weekend of driving with the Vintage Sports Car Club of America. The Alfa Club is known for its trademark “laid back pasta eaters” approach to driving schools. The VSCCA drivers bring their own laid back approach to motorsports with their fleet of historic vintage race cars. As in past years, the two clubs share the track. The Alfa Club conducts a driving school that is interspersed with the Vintage Club’s practice, qualifying and race sessions.
This year, our driving school will accommodate intermediate (driver must have completed at least two 2-day HPDE events – inquire regarding acceptability of other related experience) and advanced run groups. Each of our run groups will get three sessions a day, twenty-five minutes each.
For the fourth consecutive year, we will follow our enthusiastically received small-bore theme. We will again limit the student groups to cars with nominal displacements at or under 3.5 liters. Although some of our best friends drive big cars with big motors, this change will keep the run groups just a bit more homogeneous, reducing speed differentials, particularly at the ends of the long straightaways. (Please note that there is no displacement limitation for instructor cars.)
This format aims to return us to the tenor of our early schools, when the grids were predominantly made up of Alfas and other small cars. So bring your old Alfas & Porsches and your new Miatas, BMWs & Z-cars. Bring them and come mix it up in the paddock with an eclectic mix of vintage racing cars. Join us too for our Saturday evening banquet (We’ve again made the banquet optional in an effort to keep costs down for the basic event.)
For Complete event information, see the MAARC Driver Education Page
Registration:
(AROC, Tarheel Sports Car Club, Triangle Z Club & 02 Group)
Event requirements
This event is a two-day High Performance Driving Event (HDPE). We will be sharing track time (in separate run sessions) with the Vintage Sports Car Club of America (VSCCA) – MAARC will have 1/2 of the allocated track time. Students (& Instructors) will receive three 25-minute driving sessions each day as well as classroom instruction between sessions. There will not be Time Trials at this event.
Students will be grouped into two groups:
Yellow: Intermediate (Previous completion of at least 2 HPDE events or approved
equivalent.)
Blue: Advanced
Note: In order for us to assign you to the most appropriate run group, it is absolutely essential that your past event history be up-to-date in your MotorsportReg.com (MSR) account. If you have participated in HPDE events where you did not use MSR to register, you must manually add this experience into your MSR data.
Instruction is included in your entry fee. All students will have an instructor with the exception of advanced students who whose driving experience is directly known to us and who receive advance approval to drive solo.
Instructors will be in the White group. Due to unusually high interest within the instructing community, the Instructor Group is now CLOSED for further registrations. If you're an experienced driving instructor and would like to instruct in next year's event, please send your instructor resume and two references to Steve Margolis.
Technical Inspection: All cars must have a pre-event technical inspection (Form in Word format). MAARC also accepts the Tarheel Sports Car Club / Triangle Z Club 2008 annual inspection sticker. All open cars (convertibles) must have an aftermarket roll bar meeting club specifications. Please be aware that factory roll hoops (Boxster, Z3/Z4, S2000, TT) are not acceptable.
Lodging is available at the track in the VIR Lodge & Garage Suites (434/822-7700, ext 101). We will not have a headquarters hotel for this event. Many of us will be staying at the Danville Sleep Inn, which can be reached at 434 793-6090. The Sleep Inn in is a new hotel that is relatively convenient to the track. Mention the Alfa Romeo Club to get the event rates. We've listed other options in
On-site registration will be held Friday from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at VIR's North Paddock Driver's Classroom. We will also conduct registration on Saturday morning, but urge you to register on Friday night, if possible, in order to reduce the rush on Saturday morning.
This event will run RAIN or SHINE.
