Gee this is a long thread, so I guess that I will add my 2 cents seeing that I know a little bit about the event. First I would like to thank Gary Patterson who really helped our group on Saturday. Gary spent time showing the novices the line and picked up the pace on every lap. This group was set up as a Cobra only novice level run group. Half of the guys on the track were first timers, never been on a track before in their lives, so as far as they were concerned, they were all the fastest on the track. We had a great line up of instructors that day, Tom Banard, Gordon Levy, Jonathan Blevins, Dave Smith and Dick Smith were there. For the most part everyone had a blast and are eager to try it again. Traffic was backed up for most of the event because NASA allowed us to run the group with instructors and single roll bars as long as it was kept at a reduced speed.
Everyone pretty much followed to the rules except Spenser Sharp, driving Doc's car. I guess that nobody explained to him the difference between HPDE level 1 and race groups. Here he is blasting around the track, passing in the turns, cutting people off, the car equipped with single hoop roll bar. NASA did notice and I hope they take proper action. I am sure that this will influence NASA's roll bar decision on any future events. Except for this the event was incident free. A few of the cars may have a few more paint chips and I personally am trying to figure out the 720 degree turn at the end of the main straight that ends in a dust cloud.
Here is a link to my trip through the dirt, I call it Toooooo Hot and Wrong Line
http://www.chuckscobra.20megsfree.com/myspin.mpg