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LexusFman
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How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 02:16AM

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Poll

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What is your favorite way to get seat time?

	Driving backroads at night(Who cares if its dangerous?)
	Drifting (Rally & Drifting are sideways right?)
	SCCA Rallycross (Who says masturbation is bad for you?)
	Road Racing (I don't have a funny caption for this one)
	Dirt Track (It's on dirt, and because 'merica)
	Paved Oval ('meeeeeeeeeeeeerika!!!!!!!)

What's the best way to get cheap seat time outside of rallying?

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darkknight9
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Re: How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 08:41AM

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Bacon.

Kirk Coughlin
Woodbury, MN and River Falls, WI

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Jay
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Re: How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 09:09AM

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Hornet car racin.
Or gokarts.
Or Dirt3.
Or go out and sit in the rallycar and make engine noises then clean the spittle offa the windshield.
Well ya said cheap!

Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
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Chronologically, 46...

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Aaron Luptak
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Re: How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 09:41AM

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Only one choice? confused smiley

KF7RWG

http://www.utahrallygroup.com

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DaveK
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Re: How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 10:00AM

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Local off road park in the spring/summer/fall and ice tracks in the winter...all driving the rally car.

Dave

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Re: How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 10:00AM

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Street racing in a school zone.

Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
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Re: How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 10:09AM

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None of the above.

Pretty much the only "practice" I get is running track days and that's really not much for practice. About the only form of dusting the cobwebs comes from playing Sim racing.

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Re: How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 11:04AM

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Local off road park in the spring/summer/fall and ice tracks in the winter...all driving the rally car.

Dave

About the offroad park, do they just let you bring your rallycar whenever you want? Are there scheduled times for cars/trucks? Or do you have some kind of deal?

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Re: How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 11:53AM

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About the offroad park, do they just let you bring your rallycar whenever you want? Are there scheduled times for cars/trucks? Or do you have some kind of deal?

http://coloradooffroadextreme.com/

One of the local rally guys back in 2003 or 2004 found out about the place and with the help of other folks marked out a rally sprint course on the property. Its been available ever since...but each fall we're told the park may not open the following spring due to cost issues. So far we've been lucky and it's opened in March. As for costs and whatnot, I've typically bought a season pass good for every weekend of the season for $200-300, but they also offered $10-20 day passes. I went with the year pass as it seemed like it increased the chances the park would open. Either way, local road race tracks are $100 for a 4 hour pass or $160 for the day, so the offroad park is a steal!

Here's a couple videos that show a little bit of the property, first one isn't on the sprint course, but rather a road that bisects the property...and when nobody is there, its a great place for top speed runs:

Second one shows shots of the BMW during testing on the sprint course. Some years its smooth, other years its really bumpy (like in this vid)

Here's the place I work in the winters and keep up on the seat time:

http://winterdrive.com/

Video of the 2nd of 2 larger tracks from a few years ago when the Evo was mostly stock. Have been keeping the BMW in Steamboat and getting more and more comfortable with RWD on the slippy stuff lately. Its loads of fun but not nearly as fast as the AWD car.

Dave

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Re: How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 11:54AM

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Option for... "i just show up and race".

No seat time.... also means i'm not very fast; but whatever its a hobby.

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Re: How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 12:00PM

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Jay
Or go out and sit in the rallycar and make engine noises then clean the spittle offa the windshield.

this made me laugh because guilty as charged.

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Re: How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 12:06PM

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I'm a fan of karting for practice. I am generally too aggressive of a driver and karting helps to curb that. Lock the brakes or let it step out and your entire lap is trashed. There is a really nice indoor track here. With membership 10 min/$10, buy three get the fourth session free.

It might not be "seat time" but there are so many ways to train or practice being a rally driver. From making mental or verbal notes as you commute to work to inviting your codriver over for dinner and some bonding time. Not as fun as pitched sideways, chucking rocks though.

Zap zap my ass...

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Re: How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 12:14PM

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mountain biking (or maybe downhill skiing) seems to scratch the itch for me when there is nothing else to do with the car. Richard Burns + RallyeSim gets about as close as a game can

-KTurner
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Re: How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 01:03PM

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Auto-X, Rally-X and Ice-X

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Re: How do you get seat time?
March 25, 2013 01:15PM

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mountain biking (or maybe downhill skiing) seems to scratch the itch for me when there is nothing else to do with the car. Richard Burns + RallyeSim gets about as close as a game can

Nothing beats seat time in a car but that is not available to most of us. Mountain biking (downhill riding especially) and motorcycles have done more to make me comofortable in the rally car at speed than anything else. I am still not fast but that's a different issue.

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