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woodyracing -> RE: Track day gear? (2/26/2007 11:35:57 PM)
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STT and NESBA are both great for first timers, I've always liked NESBA more but its really personal preference
STT has a classroom session between sessions for novice group, but they don't really talk about anything you can't get from reading a small article in any riding magazine. They basically just tell you what to practice each session. You start very slow (VERY). They talk about body positioning, leaning and repeat over and over "when you get to a turn, TURN" A session or two in the beginning they'll tell you to stay in one gear the whole time, etc They let you get faster through the day but for the first half you have a group that you have to stay with and if its your first time the group will probably be really slow no matter how comfortable you are going faster.
That kind of approach never really worked great for me. You can take part of a day and read a book like Nick Ienatsch's "Sport Riding Techniques" and get 10 times the info and spend the trackday learning at your own pace. They both have great control riders that will work with you but you have to talk to them or they won't know your looking for advice. If you do a NESBA day, post up on their board (click "Track Talk" link on NESBA.com) and tell them you want to meet up with a control rider to work with you. They do have a classroom session before the trackday begins where you can ask questions, discuss the track, and hook up with a control rider, etc Also as far as knowing what your doing, order a copy of Roadracing World Magazine's Trackday Guide (its in their store). The dates are from last year so the schedule won't help you but it will give you a TON of information on what goes on at a trackday, what to bring, how to behave on the track, etc. Its only like $4 now
anyway you can't go wrong with either group, picking a date that isn't sold out that fits within your timeframe will usually be a bigger limiting factor than what group you'd rather ride with.
Jennings hosts their own trackdays all the time but they don't have all the frills that dedicated trackday orgs do
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