Drivers Education 2023

CCCR DE and Parade Lap, May 5th at Buttonwillow Raceway

Our first Driver Education event is only a month away! We are scheduled for May 5th at Buttonwillow Raceway in beautiful Buttonwillow Ca. As of the writing of this article, we have 40 entries including nine students. Our goal is to see at least 80 drivers and cars on the track during the day. If you are thinking of registering for the event, please do so before it fills up. We only let 25 cars on the track at the same time, and we only have four run groups. If your run group is filled prior to your registration, you may need to drive in a group you are not comfortable in. We would prefer that all the run groups have equal driver and car abilities. As a reminder, we have four run groups, White is novice, Yellow is intermediate, Blue is advanced and Red is expert.

Buttonwillow is my favorite track to have new drivers start on. The track is interesting, challenging but is wide open. We do have PCA Certified instructors available for new or newer students. Driving on the track for the first time is a little intimidating for sure. Our instructors will be with you all day to help new drivers from the Drivers Meeting to the end of the day. Once the butterflies go away, you will have the time of your life. I can’t tell you how many new drivers say they wish the had started tracking their cars a long time ago. You will not go through a set of tires or brakes in one day.

PCA has some of the strictest safety rules of any car club. This is not wheel to wheel racing, it is a safe way to take you and your car to your limits. It is much safer to track your car than race your car on the backroads of our county, where you do not know what is around the corner. A truck, sand, a deer, a washed-out road? Now is the time to see what that Porsche can do on a professional racetrack!

Don’t forget we will be holding a noontime track parade for those who want drive on a track at a limited and safe speed. You will follow the pace car at no more than 60mph around the track for a full thirty-minute session. All cars are welcome. Helmets are not required. You can even have passengers in the car.

For serious track junkies, The Golden Gate Region from Zone 7, will be at the track May 6th and 7th . One or two or even three days of track is available to you throughout the weekend. GGR runs a fantastic DE, very similar to the way we run ours. Instructors will be available the full weekend.

The Stable has again offered a free tech session April 20 th , 5:30 to 7:00 pm. The Stable is located at 750 Francis Street, San Luis Obispo. This is a chance to have your pride and joy looked over by one of the premier Porsche repair shops in California, at no cost to you! Thank you, Brian Pritt and Guy Ober, for this fantastic opportunity!

We did receive some bad news from Laguna Seca this week. Our date set for June 26 th has been cancelled. As many of you know, Laguna Seca is working on huge improvements to the facilities. One of the major improvements, is resurfacing the track with new asphalt. The tremendous amount of rain we had this year has not been kind to the work schedule as you can imagine. We are trying to reschedule for a new date later this summer, more than likely August 25. We will keep you up to date when we have the date confirmed. Our third DE will be sometime in late October or early November, on the new track at Buttonwillow. Despite all of the rumors, the paving has not been scheduled yet. The rain has been the culprit again. Hopefully we will hear soon about the opening date of the new track.

You can find the registration and more information for these and many other events at Motorsportreg.com. Type CCCR in the search bar, and you will see all our available events. Plese feel free to call, 805 431-0919 or email me with any questions or comments.

Bob Bruington CCCR DE Director 805 431-0919

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