Test & Tune Pricing

[jmcarter]

A little off topic but think Rowland and the folks at SGMP have it right by offering a 5K to win combo race on the Friday of their D2 race. This eliminates the need for T&T unless you're wanting to make several major changes, in which case you need to go to a dedicated test session at a good track. The combo race gives you at least 3 hits, granted it cost $200 to enter but whens the last time you had the opportunity to win 5K on the Friday before the Divisional on Sat and Sun? (Similar to the Bowling Green 5K Nitroplate race on the Saturday night of the National Open.....another no-brainer but you'd be surprised how many people passed on the 5K race). No alchohol cars opens up so many possibilties.

I'm with you guys, for me $100 for T & T ain't gonna happen!

[LNorton]

Originally Posted by Don Kennedy

it has been my experience that most of the time the test and tune session are not worth it . Most of the time the track does not prepp the track at all .

That's the best time to test. If you can make your junk work on that it will work on anything. We have one particular track we use just for this reason.

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by LNorton

That's the best time to test. If you can make your junk work on that it will work on anything. We have one particular track we use just for this reason.

That's not the reason I go to test. I'm sure as Hell not going to pay the track for that, take a day out of the shop, buy diesel, buy race gas, and put wear and tear on the car to go spin the tires. I can do burn outs in the drive way if all I want to do is waste time and money.

[Don Kennedy]

Originally Posted by LNorton

That's the best time to test. If you can make your junk work on that it will work on anything. We have one particular track we use just for this reason.

I don't need to test for a poorly prepared track , and I should not have to tune my car for a unsafe track . It is the responsibility of the track to prepare the track with safety in mind as well as great traction . I have just about quit testing and tune as the last 40 or so times the track is junk for my car , maybe not junk for a bracket car , or maybe a clutch car who can slip the clutch ,but for the higher HP cars test and tune is a waste most of the time

[Mike Carr]

$100 for a test session is rediculous. No matter where it is and no matter how good the track is prepped.

The track at Hagerstown MD has test and tune on Saturday's. $30 for a 5-6 hour session. Normally you can make as many runs as you want...8, 10 runs is not uncommon (though November 5th was pretty packed and not sure if anyone got more than 6-7 runs). Track is (was) always prepped very well when they used VHT. This year, they switched to VP, and the track doesn't seem to work as well as when they used VHT (from what I hear, in the near future, many tracks will be switching to VP over VHT for cost/EPA issues).

[442OLDS]

Originally Posted by Mike Carr

(from what I hear, in the near future, many tracks will be switching to VP over VHT for cost/EPA issues).

Very interesting!