The Itty Bitty NOVA VW Committee

[Jake]

One thing I keep hearing from these track stories is that there seems to be a lot of big egos at these track events.  That (among other things) would make me really leery to bring any vehicle I cared about out there

Welcome to motorsports?

Guys with 500hp+ come out and hammer it on the straights but don't push it anywhere else in the lower groups. That's where it's fun for people with lighter and lower hp cars that are pushing it. Taylor is out there destroying them and having a blast doing it. Makes me feel good that someone else is doing what I had fun doing :')

Well yeah, but racing is a more dangerous place to have egos than show car stuntin' like homeboy who is building up his Mini Cooper.  Or in other words, ain't nothing but a few egos getting bruised if vapebro calls you out for not having forged pistons vs. some Sally Speed Demon n00b flying around a track, flipping people off and being aggressive.  

Who was it, Jake that got smashed into by some dipshit in a Mustang or Camaro or something?  Like I said, I wouldn't bring a car I wasn't prepared to total to any track event with egos like that going unchecked.

I got whacked by two Spec E30s. Have almost been run off-track by others who didn't see me. I whacked a Spec E30 who turned out in front of me as I was trying to pull a stupid stunt at Turn 1. Ran the car into tires and trees. Stuff happens.

That said, HPDE is not racing and the egos are usually just as Ryan said, people with big power cars who park 'em in turns. Contact between cars and off-track excursions that end in contact with stationary objects are very few and far between for HPDE. They are almost always single-car incidents (i.e. not an ego showdown between two vapelords). And if you are that worried, you can indeed get HPDE insurance for an event. 

It's cute that Taylor got flipped off, but it sounds like that driver was otherwise not driving dangerously and merely expressing her frustration, which we have all done before (hell I honked at someone in a TT session once). If she stayed on-line, gave the point and allowed for a safe pass then there's nothing wrong there.