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Photo by Hart Photography Drivers Education at Texas Motor Speedway By John Sandusky We never said things stay the same way, did we? Texas Motor Speedway is an impressive facility, and just being there is exciting enough. Taking your own car out on the track is even more impressive, and something that everyone involved in our DE program should do. “Drive more tracks”, we say, “it helps you improve.” But up until now, we had reserved this event for experienced drivers – those that had at least been solo qualified at some other track. The reasoning behind it was that a good portion of our instructor corps is involved in the Club Race, and not available to instruct. We just could not support a regular instructed DE event. Early planning for this year was that things would stay the same. But you also know that Maverick Region is hosting the 2004 Parade, and TMS will serve as the facility for both the Parade Club 18 DE’ers slow for the chicane Photo by Matt Platts Race and Parade DE, which will be held on separate days. That means that the days for the Parade DE will be a full DE format. Without any region experience in running a true DE at TMS, we thought we needed to try at least a mini-DE this year to prepare Photo by Matt Platts Bryan Henderson teaching about passing. ourselves for next year. So we recruited some of the instructors not running in the Club Race that were available for the weekend and made plans to include non-solo drivers. Since this was our first attempt at this at TMS, we decided to not include first-time green level students, since the schedule set for the event could not support the necessary classroom time and on track green level time. There would be only 2 run groups for DE this year, and that meant there would be no true green run group. Compromises we had to work with. Things A pair of 914’s and a 968 were changing. charge through the infield Out went the call for the newly added instructed portion of the DE, and the response was great. We had to limit the number of instructed students to match the number of instructors we had. Change had happened. But what a success we had with it. We were able to gain valuable instructing time at the track, and also open the facility to those that might have missed out. Those who drove the track were greatly impressed. It turned out to be a wonderful event on all levels. My thanks to those instructors who made this change happen. This leaves us in a much better prepared position for the Parade DE at TMS next year. If you’ve been thinking that you’d like to drive TMS in a regular DE format, Parade 2004 will be your chance. Finally, I’d like to thank those on the Club Race and DE committees who helped make this event successful. And a special thanks to Ray Luedecke for filling in for me while I was away Saturday and Sunday. And thanks Noby for handling the pace car while I was away, then letting me back in the driver’s seat when I got back. What a time that was. In a short span, I experienced both profound sadness and unexpected happiness - all resulting from change. Photo by Hart Photography James Shoffit does some final prep work
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