Right now I'm saying that there were 4 crashes I know of, two of those totalled their cars. the Silver one flipped it somehow, BB crashed into something, it looked like someone ripped the drivers side front off the car, one guy hit a guard rail and drove away and the other knocked the tail into a wall.

There's something to be said about taking your time on day 1, even day 2, getting comfortable with the road, the car, and yourself, and slowly increasing the pace until you get to a decent pace. Thing with the dragon and the surrounding roads is there's very little forgiveness like on a track.

 

Right now I heard there were 3 crashes.

 

Right now agreed. I went to my first Dragon event after having the car on the road for less than a month and zero track time. I was fully prepared to be mocked for "driving like a girl" because I wasn't going to push it. Immense gratitude that in the 9 or 10 (?) times I went the nastiest thing that happened to me was being pulled over in a group by the LEOs and only getting a warning.

 

Right now, I'm waiting for my 4:45pm appointment.

 

Right now I'm saying I've never driven the car hard with the supercharger in it. Had no idea how it would react. Turns out NA, supercharger whatever doesnt matter on those tight corners.

I brought all the spare parts and tools necessary to take the car back to stock if necessary. Car performed better than I did

 

Right now thinking most of you folks are out west but we should do a dragon trip / meet there on one of these events

 

Right now, committed to just getting to vtecmom's house in July.

 

Right now I'd love to make the trip but I fear I won't have the time or vacation days

 

(Right now)...

4 accidents in one weekend is nuts. I know there were some veteran guys there, didn't anyone give the "slow the eff down so you don't die, it's not a race course!" talk? Or did people just ignore it, thinking they were Lewis Hamilton?

I was lucky, my first trip to the Dragon, on the first pass thru, I got to "follow" Jason Saini (who has subsequently won a fair bit in high level auto-x/racing). And I say "follow" because despite being in identical stock S2000s on stock S02s, I managed to stay within visual of him for 3, yes 3, turns at the Dragon. He was that much better than me. So I just went about it myself and didn't try to prove anything, just to not die. My pace got better over the years (as others can attest to) with familiarity and practice. Like HC, most of the trips, the worst thing was a talk to a local constabulary (I had a couple myself , and may or may not have made a run for the state line a couple times ). Couple cars went off in various states of disrepair of the years...

But that much carnage in one weekend? Oi.

 

Right now I'd love to make the trip but I fear I won't have the time or vacation days
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Right now, the BBQ trip shouldn't be that much time off. Unless you really want to spend a lot of time in SoCal in July, flying into LAX or ONT Friday evening and heading out Sunday afternoon would suffice.

Driving to the Dragon from my LA is 2200+ miles each way and would realistically require 2-3 days each way. Guess I could ship my car to TYS.