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Old 01-03-2020 | 12:44 PM
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Besides Mosport, there is another fantastic track up here to discover: LCMT (Tremblant). As a bonus, the track is surrounded by beautiful mountains and nature, many hotels, cottages and a large variety of restaurants.
DE dates for the Rennsport region are:

At LCMT
May 18, 19
June 22, 23
July 20, 21
August 28, 29,30
Sept 21, 22

At Calabogie: July 6, 7
LCMT is an amazing track, and the area is 2nd to none when it comes to activities "outside" of the track.
It is the only DE I do that my entire family comes to and we make a 5 day trip out of it.
Love the area as well as the track.
Still trying to find info on the NER/NNJR DE there that's usually over the July 4th holiday. Can't seen to find any confirmed registration info or dates.
Any help from anyone here would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Jun 5-7 Mid-Ohio – Ohio Valley PCA (Fri-Sun)
Oct 9-11 Mid-Ohio – Ohio Valley PCA (Fri-Sun)

Mar 14-15 CMP – Carolinas PCA
Sep 12-13 CMP – Carolinas PCA
Nov 20-22 VIR – Carolinas PCA (Fri-Sun)

Apr 25-26 NJMP Lightning – NNJR PCA
May 29-30 NJMP Thunderbolt – NNJR PCA (Fri-Sat)
Jul 3-5 Mont-Tremblant – NNJR PCA (Music festival)
Jul 24-26 Watkins Glen – NNJR PCA (Fri-Sun)
Aug 18 Summit Point – NNJR PCA (Tue)
Sep 22 Watkins Glen – NNJR PCA (Tue)
Oct 10-11 NJMP Lightning – NNJR PCA
Oct 30-N1 VIR – NNJR PCA (Fri-Sun)
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Originally Posted by Dino524
Besides Mosport, there is another fantastic track up here to discover: LCMT (Tremblant). As a bonus, the track is surrounded by beautiful mountains and nature, many hotels, cottages and a large variety of restaurants.
DE dates for the Rennsport region are:

At LCMT
May 18, 19
June 22, 23
July 20, 21
August 28, 29,30
Sept 21, 22

At Calabogie: July 6, 7
Spectacular track, LCMT...
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Originally Posted by dgrobs
LCMT is an amazing track, and the area is 2nd to none when it comes to activities "outside" of the track.
It is the only DE I do that my entire family comes to and we make a 5 day trip out of it.
Love the area as well as the track.
Still trying to find info on the NER/NNJR DE there that's usually over the July 4th holiday. Can't seen to find any confirmed registration info or dates.
Any help from anyone here would be appreciated. Thanks.

we did the same a few years back

while I was at the track the wife and kids had plenty of hiking, biking, kayaking, gondola rides, birds of prey show etc...

lots of nice restaurants and bars in the pedestrian village and at the hotels there also



front straight with view of Mt Tremblant ski trails in the background
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Originally Posted by Dino524
Besides Mosport, there is another fantastic track up here to discover: LCMT (Tremblant). As a bonus, the track is surrounded by beautiful mountains and nature, many hotels, cottages and a large variety of restaurants.
DE dates for the Rennsport region are:

At LCMT
May 18, 19
June 22, 23
July 20, 21
August 28, 29,30
Sept 21, 22

At Calabogie: July 6, 7

It's an awesome track with one big advantage over other tracks, great hotels, restaurants and nightlife less than a 5 minute drive away. If you bring family with you they will have tons to do while you're at the track.

HOWEVER, an unfortunate issue to be aware of is the VERY restrictive noise levels that are STRICTLY enforced as of last year. The sound limit is supposedly 92db (but due to the way sound is measured it could be lower) with many PDK Porsche cars (all GT cars) and even some 718's running stock exhaust are regularly black flagged for noise, Most people are tying off their side exhaust valves completely closed which seems to work. Muffled turndowns also help but if you have any aftermarket exhaust components and plan to shift a full rpm levels you will almost surely blow sound. Just want folks to be aware before making a long trip without ensuring they have taken care of their noise levels.
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Yes, we had numerous cars last season getting black flagged for noise. These were pretty much ANY GT car as well as stock turbos and street cars that were unmodified. They were taking the readings under the tunnel before the left hander so the sound was amplified a lot and reverberating inside and under the bridge.
I’ve heard numerous reasons for this type of reading but most seemed to point at the town vs the track, or something of that nature.
We had more than a few cars at our event that were told they couldn’t run anymore which really sucked for those drivers. Long long way to go to get noise violated off the track. People were very upset. Made the most of the trip, but still sucked. I actually let a buddy of mine drive my car in Red and I drove in Black because he was noise violated out of the event. Buyer beware I suppose with the noise....
Edit: His car was a stock 2003 Turbo I believe.
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For anyone who can make it out to the west coast, the land of infinite sunshine,
here is PCA Golden Gate Region's complete track schedule for 2020:

March 28-29 DE #1 and Club Race #1 - Buttonwillow Raceway
April 24-26 DE #2 and Club Race #2 - Thunderhill Raceway
May 21-24 Club Race #3 and DE #3 (advanced drivers only) - Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca
August 29-30 Club Race #4 (w/ NASA) - Sonoma Raceway
September 26-27 DE #4 and Club Race #5 - Thunderhill Raceway
October 10-11 Club Race #6 (w/ NASA) - Sonoma Raceway

Seriously, we get about 1 track day of rain per season. Good thing, because we suck in the wet. :-)
Registration for the DE’s is on MotorsportReg.com.
Registration for PCA Club races will open the usual 6 weeks prior to the respective events at clubregistration.net.
Old 01-04-2020 | 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by dgrobs
Yes, we had numerous cars last season getting black flagged for noise. These were pretty much ANY GT car as well as stock turbos and street cars that were unmodified. They were taking the readings under the tunnel before the left hander so the sound was amplified a lot and reverberating inside and under the bridge.
I’ve heard numerous reasons for this type of reading but most seemed to point at the town vs the track, or something of that nature.
We had more than a few cars at our event that were told they couldn’t run anymore which really sucked for those drivers. Long long way to go to get noise violated off the track. People were very upset. Made the most of the trip, but still sucked. I actually let a buddy of mine drive my car in Red and I drove in Black because he was noise violated out of the event. Buyer beware I suppose with the noise....
Edit: His car was a stock 2003 Turbo I believe.
I have a PDK 991.2 GT car and I did get black flagged for the first time last year. Had PDK on sport and sport exhaust activated and agree with mr. Turtles assessment on the noise restriction situation of 92 dba.
For a newer GT car you have two choices: tie your side exhaust valves closed (a 5min procedure performed at the track by one of the two Porsche dealers offering support at the track) or leave PDK on normal setting and turn off the sport exhaust setting. Both have worked for me and I have never been black flagged for noise.
Hope my experience above help alleviate any concerns for folks coming from far away.
Old 01-09-2020 | 01:56 PM
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Just adding this schedule here for all.
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Old 01-09-2020 | 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by porshyche
Just adding this schedule here for all.
Awesome. Very helpful.

Thanks...
Old 01-10-2020 | 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Deadeye
North Country PCA confirmed dates for 2020

Lime Rock Park. May 4th and 5th
NHMS August 22nd & 23rd (this will be our Make a Wish event)

and we have two 3 day events at the awesome new Club Motorsports in Tamworth NH

CMS July 17-19 and September 11-13

If you have not been to the new track in Tamworth NH you owe it to yourself to check it out. If you have been there I know you want to return. Both of our events last year were nearly sold out so register early. Registration for our events will open in March. More info at: NCR-PCA.org
Correction- Our registration will open Februray 1st
Old 01-14-2020 | 08:21 AM
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Metro NY schedule. Registration is on clubreg.
  • April 3 – 4 NJMP Thunderbolt/Lightning
  • May 6-7 Lime Rock Park
  • May 27 – 28 Watkins Glen
  • June 29 – 30 NJMP Thunderbolt
  • July 31 – Aug 1-2 Watkins Glen
  • Oct 2 – 3 NJMP Lightning
  • Nov 6 -7 Summit Point
Old 01-14-2020 | 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by mhm993
Metro NY schedule. Registration is on clubreg.
  • April 3 – 4 NJMP Thunderbolt/Lightning
  • May 6-7 Lime Rock Park
  • May 27 – 28 Watkins Glen
  • June 29 – 30 NJMP Thunderbolt
  • July 31 – Aug 1-2 Watkins Glen
  • Oct 2 – 3 NJMP Lightning
  • Nov 6 -7 Summit Point

Are these mostly Fri-Sat events?
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Originally Posted by the_vetman
Are these mostly Fri-Sat events?
Most of Metro's events, except the for the watkins ones are Fri/Sat.
Old 01-22-2020 | 05:25 PM
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Bump, just in case folks want to post up more events....


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