Shanendoah, first event

[bimmerboodle]

After this weekend I now have enough credits for a track day. I'd like to do one before it gets to hot where I'm more likely to run into heat issues. So, I was leaning towards the April 1 and 2nd event at Shanendoah, but some people have said thats not a good track to do your first HPDE on. Why is that? Not enough run off room? To technical? I was thinking a slower technical course might be good for me since its similar to autocrossing. I have even heard the course described as a high speed autocross. Thoughts?

Nevermind the Internet noise you heard about shenandoah. It is a cool track. It is 1 foot wider than the main course. There is a lot of jersey barrier on the property and it is very white so it looks intimidating, but it generally is a good ways away from the track where cars might go off. Bill scott bought all of it from some race that was run in a city so he just put it there. We ran a test session there 2 different times and a real race/HPDE weekend there last year with great success and mostly positive comments. Jon Felton did stuff his E30 there in turn 7 into the jersey barrier but even he said it was not the tracks fault. I also worked an EMRA event there where on the friday everyone seemed to be complaining about why it was on that track....and by Sunday they all wanted to book another weekend there for an Enduro. This track IS NOT and autocross! It does have it's unique challenges but all tracks do.I had a blast driving it and did not feel unsafe at all there. It is probably a little hard on brakes so be aware of that. If you want to use credits.....Contact Laura ASAP as there can only be 5 worker credit spaces per weekend.