Registration Open for April VIR Event

Back To Our Roots: Small-Bore Driving School, Virginia International Raceway – South Course April 29-30, 2006

Advanced, Intermediate & Novice/Beginner Run Groups One of the Mid-Atlantic Alfa Romeo Club’s most popular events has been our weekend of driving with the Vintage Sports Car Club of America. The Alfa Club is known for its trademark “laid back pasta eaters” approach to driving schools. The VSCCA drivers bring their own laid back approach to motorsports with their fleet of interesting old sports and racecars. As in past years, the two clubs share the track. The Alfa Club conducts a driving school that is interspersed with the Vintage Club’s practice, qualifying and race sessions. This year, for the first time at the MAARC-VSCCA weekend, our driving school will buy two-thirds of the track time, allowing us to accommodate novice, intermediate and advanced run groups. Each of our run groups will get three sessions a day, which should average just over twenty-five minutes each. (Meanwhile the VSCCA drivers will be concentrated into two run groups instead of three) The other new feature this year is a small-bore theme. In response to concerns that we’ve been hearing from some of our participants, we will limit the student groups to cars with nominal displacements at or under 3.5 liters. Although some of our best friends drive big cars with big motors, this change will keep the run groups just a bit more homogeneous, reducing speed differentials, particularly at the ends of the long straightaways. (Please note that there is no displacement limitation for instructor cars.)

Our new format aims to return us to the tenor of our early schools, when newcomers were a big part of our events and the grids were predominantly made up of Alfas and other small cars. So bring your old Alfas & Porsches and your new Miatas, BMWs & Z-cars. Bring them and come mix it up in the paddock with an eclectic mix of vintage racing cars. Join us too for the Saturday evening banquet, also joint with the VSCCA folks. (This year we’ve made the banquet optional in an effort to keep costs down for the basic event.)

Early Registration (by April 15, 2006): Non-member Student $275.00 Member Student $260.00 (AROC, Tarheel Sports Car Club & Triangle Z Club)

Late Registration (April 16, 2006 and after): Non-member Student $295.00 Member Student $280.00 (AROC, Tarheel Sports Car Club & Triangle Z Club)

Saturday Evening Banquet (Optional): $15.00

For complete event information, visit the MAARC website’s Driver’s Ed page at http://track-events.mid-atlantic-aroc.com/. This year, we also offer Online Registration powered by MotorsportReg.com - http://www.motorsportreg.com/. Register Now!