Houston Chat Thread

[Gixxer-370Z]

Originally Posted by wstar

I've never been to Harris Hill. This TWS weekend will be my first anywhere but MSR-H actually (although I've been several times there now). There was a Silver Nismo parked near the track fence at MSR-H at the TDE event there in late Jan, which I thought might've been you.

Anyways, I'm heading out sometime Friday afternoon. See you at the track Sat .

What is the TDE event? I was at msrh a few weeks back.

[wstar]

Originally Posted by Gixxer-370Z

What is the TDE event? I was at msrh a few weeks back.

TDE is The Driver's Edge. It's basically a NASA-style HPDE program, but they're a little bit less anal about some things*. It's pretty cheap ($300 for the weekend - 8 runs total over two days + classroom time), and you get an instructor in your passenger seat on every run in the first two rungroup levels, with headset comms. They mostly run at MSR-Houston, MSR-Cresson, and TWS. I'm really enjoying it so far.

* - That's not to say they don't take safety seriously, but they don't have a giant rulebook either. Classrooms and some handouts tell you what to do and not to do, flagging/passing rules, etc, and a basic tech inspection sheet signed off by any SAE mechanic gets your car on the track for the beginner level, assuming nobody sees an obvious reason to inspect any deeper while you're there. Total asshats and/or idiots are handled on a case-by-case basis via instructor feedback heh