The Derek Daly Academy in Las Vegas gives first time participants a short
course ...
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Holds open road races, including Nevada Open, La Carrera Internacional,
Silver State, and Sandhills challenges.
http://www.silverstateclassic.com/
Spectators are not welcome but if you volunteer to be a gatekeeper you can
be along the course, behind a fence/gate. Your contact with race control is
one of those little hand held radios people use to stay in touch with their
kids while skiing or in a shopping mall. Reports are relayed along to one
of three major CB or ham radio stations.
It's fun to hear the cars and see them pass ... once ... and there's a car
inspection on the Saturday before the race in Ely at a public park. All the
cars are required to attend and be on display until early afternoon. Then
they take off and some cruise around town for the rest of the day. Imagine
150 plus cars running around your town ... open exhausts, big horsepower,
lots of Corvettes, almost as many Mustangs and then there are the exotics.
All the rich kids toys.
You have to be in place along the course before five thirty in the morning
and can't leave your post until around two in the afternoon after they have
run all the cars and swept the course. If you want to take a motorhome,
find a spot behind the fence and camp overnight or even brave the occasional
7,000 foot altitude, May snow storm in a tent, go ahead.
The other group putting on this kind of races is shown here;
http://www.openroadracing.com/
I'm guessing the reason they run these races in Nevada as opposed to other
states is the totally fenced long road stretches. Obviously the deer,
horses, whatever don't bother with the fences. There's been several
fatalities. Often they are people who have fast cars without good training
to drive this fast. One who died had only had his Ferrari for a month
before running it in the race.
The race in September is usually the same weekend as World of Speed.
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