National Corvette Museum Recaps Its Inaugural High Performance Driving Event: Video
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This past weekend the National Corvette Museum hosted the first of many High Performance Driving Events to be held at its recently opened Motorsports Park. The event allowed sports car owners of any driving ability to get a feel for the all-new NCM track and hone their skills.
The NCM track is made up of a 9-turn East Course and an 11-turn West Course, which can be linked together making a 21-turn, 3.15-mile Grand Course. The facility opened earlier this month and had 189 events booked for its first full year of operation as of September 9.
Participants in the HPDE event were separated into different experience-based classes (beginner, low intermediate, high intermediate, and advanced) so that faster drivers were not on the track at the same time as less experienced ones. Cadillac Racing driver Andy Pilgrim was also in attendance showing drivers how to drive the track and even test driving their vehicles.
The NCM put together a quick video recap of the inaugural HPDE event. If you’re interested in going to a track day event at the NCM Motorsports Park or somewhere else and are curious about what an event like this entails, you won’t want to miss it. Check it out just below.
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Just some general information. I have a 2014 Z51 Stingray and was on the way home from Bowling Green on I-75 and going with the traffic flow which was about 80-90 mph and I was a good 3 car lengths behind a van. I try to keep enough room around me to see the tire treads on the road to avoid them. At any rate from this van in front of me I saw this shiny metallic like object come out from under the vans wheels and right at me and I had no where to go as there was a car on my right and one directly behind me. I heard a loud hollow thump and told my wife the object must have hit my spoiler. I checked my rear mirrors and nothing came out from under the car and I knew it didn’t hit the grille and than the radiator as I would have known that and I checked oil and water gauges and no changes. Finally on this mountain road I found a place to stop and when I did I found a 5/8″ wrench with one end boxed and one open and apparently the open end went into the spoiler at an angle and was hanging out. To get this out I had to open up the hole in order to make it big enough for the wrench to come out. I’ve been driving now for 50 years and put 100’s of thousands of miles on my cars and have never had any issues on or off the highways till now so if nothing else it’s not a bad record. The car now is in the body shop where they will take care of the damage without requiring the purchase of a whole new front clip. As they say, if you want to play you have to be willing to pay, LOL. I just thought I’d let all drivers out there that read this know that it can be the least of things that can possibly happen to your car on the road, you just never know. I just thank God the wrench didn’t land any higher or go through the windshield as it was coming right in my direction although it would have probably broken but ricocheted off my windshield anyway. The funny thing to this as you got to laugh is that on the spoiler on the 2014 Z51 Stingray there are like two half diamond shapes on the spoiler, one on each side, and this wrench went in directly into the middle of the one on the drivers side, this couldn’t happen again in a million years. So that’s it, you can never be to safe on the roads! Bill Sr.
I once had three porkupine quills stuck in mine and a flat head 10″ screwdriver ruin a brand new $400 tire and a 2′ piece of pipe ruin a tire on my tracktor trailer on a cold dark rainy winter night in the mountains of massachusets and a set of rear wheels and tires off a greyhound bus made me swerve off the interstate in florida where i missed it by only inches. That really would have ruined my day if i hadnt been driving defensivly. I also had to swearge to miss a brinks truck that decided he didnt have to obay stop signs and come flying out of a bank parking lot in port charlotte florida. Im surprised he kept it on four wheels he was traveling so fast and made a 90° turn to the right. Always drive as if all the other vehicles on the road are out to get you and your ride.