NASA Comp. Eval.
With my school under my belt, and the track time I have, I asked the NASA Mid-Atlantic director if I was good enough to try for my NASA license. He approved, so I prep the car for 2 days with NASA.
It wasn’t a hard process really, but I had to do some (what I thought initially) were some silly exercises. First I had to drive the entire track for a whole session but only on the right side. Then repeat, but only on the left. This got me into the marbles and off line so I could get some experience not being on line. The last session was spent side by side with another student. In the end, it was kind of cool. Much better than my SCCA school.
On Sunday, we had one session playing hop scotch with another car, passing each other at every turn.
Since it all went well, I was allowed to start in the back of the pack in the Sunday race. I had a decent start, and ran with another worker in a Neon for a bit. I was faster (cool), but when the faster cars from the groups behind me caught me, I messed up and went off track. I spent the rest of the session grumbling about that.
With about 2 laps to go, my excitement peaked and I screwed up a shift blowing my engine. I pulled off completing another engine change.
Even thought I didn’t finish, I showed enough to the director that I have now received my provisional license to race with NASA.