doba_s

I was hoping to get an advise from COTA frequent flyers. Thinking to ship one of the cars to COTA sometime in March to do a few days at the track.

Do you guys recommend any particular club that I should sign up with? Here in California we have a bunch of clubs and some are good and some are so so in terms of running the events. Would like to know if there is a club that most of you guys go with that organizes good, safe track days.

Thanks,
Aleks.

kyrocks

I have run with Chin, PCA, Drivers Edge, MVP track time, and Edge Addicts all at COTA and they have all been good. Least track time with PCA though.

m3irish

I concur with kyrocks. Edge Addicts is probably at COTA most often. For open track days Chin and MVP probably brings in a higher level of driver along with being very well run. That being said I run with Edge Addicts quite often and rarely have issue other than drivers in the more experienced groups that don't pay as much attention as they should.

ipse dixit

Chin

Fadi1

I did a track day with Edge Addicts today at COTA. It's was great. I like that we had 5 sessions of 20-25 minutes. Right on time. Very relaxed atmosphere. Love it and will do it again

Hoopumpers

I'm headed there tomorrow with Edge Addicts. Will let you know how it goes.

Manifold

Chin is 3+ hours a day.

doba_s

Thanks for the feedback ... Seems like Chin and Edge Addicts are the most popular.

I'll try to reach out and see if they have a schedule for next year. We have a group of 5-6 guys who wants to come so should be fun.

Hoopumpers

Edge addicts was very well run today. No problems at all (other than a vette into the wall which pushed run groups out a bit). Lots of staff to keep things smooth. Relaxed atmosphere. I experienced no issues with awareness in white group. Thumbs up.

ipse dixit

Any thoughts on how they compare with Chin?

Hoopumpers

Never run Chin, sorry. I'm from SoCal.

kyrocks

I like Chin best due to experienced drivers, lots of track time, and passing anywhere usually. However, Edge Addicts was great as well.

ipse dixit

Seriously hoping that Chin expands west past COTA.

Manifold

Chin is the largest provider of track days in the US, and has been expanding (http://www.chinmotorsports.com/Calendar.aspx). Two big strengths are an excellent format which provides a lot of seat time and other benefits (http://www.chinmotorsports.com/forms/763_pdfSch.pdf), as well as consistent quality of the events due to their large amount of experience in running events and a full-time management team which pays close attention and maintains high standards.

I've driven and instructed with more than a dozen organizations at more than a dozen tracks, but have gotten to the point where Chin events take priority on my schedule over all others because I consider them to be the best by a significant margin.