[GM01SS]

I am considering going thru a Instructor training school with my local BMW club. Just wondering who here is a instructor for Open track events, and any down side to instructing?

I am VERY new to this side of open tracking, but really enjoy it

Comments?

Thanks (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

[#07]

Gm01SS good for you instructors are valuable.No instruction experience here mind you.But I can say maybe a downside is having a student wreck his/her car with you in it.Alot of the cars don't have all the safety needed for racing/OT'ing. I watched an instructor take a 5x roll over off T1 @ Thill doing about 85+mph during a licensing session.That honda did have cage though but was beer canned to the point the cage was seen excruding though panels like a emaciated(sp?) dogs ribs.The student failed of coarse.
I really liked having instructors they are a good asset to future racers and imo are needed to build the furture of racing.I have one instructor(same) alot of the times that really helped me with all of stuff to get fast.He was an ex-Panoz driver and really knew his stuff. Coarse he liked to teach some do some don't. I "think" its just something you have to try and see first. I used to cringe at times he would be saying"bring your car out to 3" off the wall (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) ".Unwind the wheel tony,stop modulating the gas to correct understeer your gonna wreck us.
He taught me to drive a slow car fast... great guy.Left a lasting impression on me.Some teachers do that for their students. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

As far as the screaming/communicating goes I.O. Port racing supplies sell a nice little student/instructor in helmet I-com system for like $90.To help that problem.

Go for it GM01SS.Somebody needs you!

Tony