Rob_SeR
Well-known member
Thanks everyone for the advice and kind words. It's great to be in a place of purists.
Sad to see that the car scene died so hard, but I understand. In Queensland (Aust) where I'm from the car scene took a huge hit when the government introduced "Anti-Hooning" laws which gave police powers to impound cars for 2 weeks for having illegal modifications or street racing, and damn near all modifications are illegal. So I'll take a Quebec cop any day over the Judge Dread cops I've experienced back in Australia.
A lapping session at iCar looks very cool, but from what I could tell I have to buy a license and also complete a $200 introduction course before I can lap?
Mt Tremblant certainly is the place I'd like to go, I was there for Cars of Fire and it looks like a spectacular track, although I didn't get around it much. To drive on that I basically have to join a car club?
I'll be sure to check out napierville dragway, I didn't even know that existed. Is it a good well prepped track and 1/4 mile?
What groups or areas do most of you use to keep up to date with when track days, events are on? I'm following Perry Performance, Octanefix, iCar on Facebook. But I don't know if there are other Facebook groups worth following.
For example I thought there was a regular night of the week on the South Shore people meet up a Canadian tire in Greenfield park, also Julep? When is the best time to go?
You do have to buy your membership, which is 60$ yearly. About the intro course, I'm not sure if it's mandatory, but a lot of people go with that route if it's not. I think if you already have experience on track, you could potentially skip the course and ask for a few sessions in follow the leader mode with more experimented people. I did do the intro course about 7-8 years ago and it's pretty good honestly.
For tremblant, with most clubs you don't have to buy a membership of any kind, you just get referred by someone, you register and enjoy the day. Some clubs have a pretty decent instruction program to show you around the track and give tips and tricks. Once you register with specific clubs, they will send you emails every year to promote their events.