Not sure if many of you have been following this but the East Coast Honda Challenge www.honda-challenge.com has really been successful in the Virginia region. I would really like to do some of their events next year but they are just to far of a drive from Texas. So what I propose is we get some Honda racers in the Texas area and close-by states to have their own Honda-Challenge races at the NASA Texas Region events in 2003.
I talked to Shannon Matus, who runs NASA Texas, and she said they we could run a Honda-Challenge race with as little as 20 Hondas. Now I doubt we could get 20 Honda racers right away but she also said we could run as a sub group along with an other series until we have the numbers needed for our own race group. Here is NASA Texas website www.nasatx.com/html/main.html and as you can see they have three events at MSR scheduled this year. They also have race licensing programs available starting this year so you wont need another clubs license to race anymore. If you are seriously interested in this email me ASAP at davidrierson@attbi.com.

 

Sounds interesting. I'll browse their website and get a better idea of what this is all about. Thanks for the link.

Joe

 

Check out SpeedVentures www.speedventures.net The Honda Challenge peeps want too much equipment to be practical.

 

Practical? Since when was racing practical? Seems to me we all take calculated risks out on the track, but the minimal safety requirements that NASA has for the Honda-Challenge series really aren't very strict. They afford a better margin of safety than a bone-stock car, however.

The way I see it, Speedventures is a good way to get seat time, have a little fun and run a time-trial. Honda Challenge steps that up to wheel-to-wheel racing, so for sure there will be more in the way of safety requrements. It's a different type of event, and a different committment level... I say if you guys can get enough people together in Texas, then go for it!!!

 

Well I don't think I will get any support from people racing S2000's. However, I am hoping there are others like myself that have another, cheaper Honda and want to race wheel-to-wheel. There are lots of fun and cheap Hondas out there that will make great racecars. I have even seen several already built Honda racecars lately going for less than $10k.