by DAVE » Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:13 pm
Right. Some track event sponsors will allow spectators to run their cars, but they still
have to pass tech and be sports cars or race cars. Although I have taken my Mustang
out on the track, everything else I've run has been a race car, and usually only to take
friends out for a spin. But the event organizers always want more money, and that is
how the "track tour" sessions got started. Just as when I started vintage racing only
cars made before 1963 were allowed. Then, to increase entries, the cut-off was
extended to 1967, then 1974, and now anything is allowed. There are classes for
current ALMS/Rolex cars and NASCAR stockers.