Your photos came out amazing (as always)! I especially loved the time lapse one with all the different cars coming through.
So..how does one sign up to be a racer on that track?! My first nonsense buy when I have extra spending money will be an old beater car I can start to race, LOL. A friend of ours goes on Friday nights in Riverside, and I'm dying to try it! Just don't want to risk the cars we need for real life, ha.
As far as getting into Rally goes, its relatively simple. I suggest going to the california rally series website, and checking out the rule book;specifically the "performance stock class" rules. This is a very popular class and has been designed to 'limit expenses' (spoiler alert, its still expensive).
The are real race cars; fully caged, racing seats and harnesses, fuel cells, etc...
When the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) sanctioned these events, their by-line was "Real cars, Real roads, Real fast..." Rally events are now sanctioned by the National Auto Sport Association (NASA) and more info (including rules relates to safety and building a car) can be found on the NASA Rally Sport website.
I've always dreamed of being a race car driver. Not nascar though, just going in a circle is tedious. Too bad SCCA isnt still in charge...sounds like Id have better luck breaking into the hobby with them lol. I'll start off at the public track for $25 a session for now hahaha. End goal would be to have a real race car though, not a street car that I can race. Unless you know of some good underground street racing? LMAO.
Yea, the SCCA put some real effort into the sport and we even had "Factory Teams" from Ford, Subaru, and even Hyundai for a while (and I think a semi-factory Mazda team)... Its a bummer that the factories are not still involved, but it didn't seem to trickle down to the club level people anyway... NASA Rally Sport does a good job, and the events are more for the competitors now (and less about the organization trying to chase sponsorship).
The events in Riverside look pretty cool... I think they do time attack and drift events there...
My friend goes regularly on Friday nights - said he saw an old toyota camry do a run LOL. Theyve got it lined in tires or something, so you cant damage your car too badly.
Yay, so happy you enjoyed! Doing things like gifs is new and fun for me, glad it hit the spot. I really appreciate your feedback!
@mattlovell knows all the things about that which you ask. I will nudge him to answer you here so that all may learn!
Hopefully one day you'll be making a GIF of me racing around somewhere!!! Keep it up, they're really fun to watch. And I can appreciate the time you're taking to create them. xoxo