HPDE @ CMP
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“How Do I Progress up the HPDE ladder?”
Solo-ing: To “Solo” is to have the opportunity to practice the skills and lessons imparted by the NASA curriculum without having an in-car instructor present in the car. Only when a student has demonstrated an acceptable awareness, judgment and car control skill will an instructor allow a student to “solo”. How quickly a driver gets “soloed” is purely dependent upon the progress made by the individual driver
Advancing from one HPDE group to another: NASA Mid Atlantic sets certain milestones that much be reached in each HPDE level. How quickly a driver advanced to a higher HPDE level is purely dependent upon the progress made by the individual driver and the desire of the driver to advance.
Solo-ing: To “Solo” is to have the opportunity to practice the skills and lessons imparted by the NASA curriculum without having an in-car instructor present in the car. Only when a student has demonstrated an acceptable awareness, judgment and car control skill will an instructor allow a student to “solo”. How quickly a driver gets “soloed” is purely dependent upon the progress made by the individual driver
Advancing from one HPDE group to another: NASA Mid Atlantic sets certain milestones that much be reached in each HPDE level. How quickly a driver advanced to a higher HPDE level is purely dependent upon the progress made by the individual driver and the desire of the driver to advance.
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“How Do I Progress up the HPDE ladder?”
Solo-ing: To “Solo” is to have the opportunity to practice the skills and lessons imparted by the NASA curriculum without having an in-car instructor present in the car. Only when a student has demonstrated an acceptable awareness, judgment and car control skill will an instructor allow a student to “solo”. How quickly a driver gets “soloed” is purely dependent upon the progress made by the individual driver
Advancing from one HPDE group to another: NASA Mid Atlantic sets certain milestones that much be reached in each HPDE level. How quickly a driver advanced to a higher HPDE level is purely dependent upon the progress made by the individual driver and the desire of the driver to advance.
Solo-ing: To “Solo” is to have the opportunity to practice the skills and lessons imparted by the NASA curriculum without having an in-car instructor present in the car. Only when a student has demonstrated an acceptable awareness, judgment and car control skill will an instructor allow a student to “solo”. How quickly a driver gets “soloed” is purely dependent upon the progress made by the individual driver
Advancing from one HPDE group to another: NASA Mid Atlantic sets certain milestones that much be reached in each HPDE level. How quickly a driver advanced to a higher HPDE level is purely dependent upon the progress made by the individual driver and the desire of the driver to advance.
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You definitely CAN overheat the stock brakes. But most people new to tracking won't (shouldn't) be pushing it hard enough to. Would be a good idea to have a backup set of pads/rotors just in case. You'll need them eventually anyway, right?
Changing the fluid is 100% something you should do.
Changing the fluid is 100% something you should do.
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Again, depends how hard you push it, and how long your sessions are. CMP has a couple hard braking zones, so its definitely possible. I use ATE Superblue / Typ 200 in my rx8, s2000, and lemons car. Its 12-20$ a litre, which is more than enough, and will NOT overheat. We ran the short course in the lemons car for 8-9 hours straight and didn't overheat. It's cheap and worth it. The last thing you want to do is overheat and lose brakes and f@#k up your car, or have to let the car cool down and miss out on instructor time because you didnt spend 15$ for good fluid for your 30,000$ Car.
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Hopefully plan to make it. Might be PCSing over to California before then. No worries cause the same weekend infineon raceway is doing one too! If not I'll have my helmet with me. Depending on who is in what group and how many cars there are, it might get divided into to different groups in a class. If so my helmet will be up for grabs on my "off" run if they allow it. I plan on getting new rotors and pads along with flushing brake fluid and coolant before the event if at all possible and again if I'm still around.
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Hopefully plan to make it. Might be PCSing over to California before then. No worries cause the same weekend infineon raceway is doing one too! If not I'll have my helmet with me. Depending on who is in what group and how many cars there are, it might get divided into to different groups in a class. If so my helmet will be up for grabs on my "off" run if they allow it. I plan on getting new rotors and pads along with flushing brake fluid and coolant before the event if at all possible and again if I'm still around.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Nelson' timestamp='1324448174' post='21252873
Hopefully plan to make it. Might be PCSing over to California before then. No worries cause the same weekend infineon raceway is doing one too! If not I'll have my helmet with me. Depending on who is in what group and how many cars there are, it might get divided into to different groups in a class. If so my helmet will be up for grabs on my "off" run if they allow it. I plan on getting new rotors and pads along with flushing brake fluid and coolant before the event if at all possible and again if I'm still around.
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