A race is where the drivers are competing for position. An "open track" is more akin to a school, and often is a school. People are driving on the track "at speed" but are not competing for position and are not supposed to be taking nearly the level of risk that is accepted in a race. As such, cars in a race are generally required to have a much higher level of safety equipment than cars at a "track day".
On May 28, 2010, at 6:12 PM, Theodore Beilby wrote: > Larry: They ran several classes. I am not sure what you mean by open track. > This was my first trip to a road course and I don't know the jargon. Many of > the Miatas that were running didn't have roll bars. Spectators were able to > make two slow laps led by a pace car during lunchtime but I was hungry and > missed that. I think the Viper was running in the hs? class. There were a > few off track incidents but I only got the one of the Porsch. Some were high > dollar cars and others were kind of rough. Was a fun day. Thank goodness the > wind was blowing and there were some clouds, it was over 90 degrees. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
