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      08-30-2020, 07:49 AM   #37
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Originally Posted by c0bra View Post
Fwiw, I was at UDE in NJ on August 16, second day of the year. They were already running solo/household groups with instructors on radio.

They did let me run the snot out of the cars though. I actually ran back to back sessions on 2 different courses, and both sessions I went hard from lap 1 without knowing the course. Never got in trouble for late braking, tire squealing, or cone killing. Also got a free lap on 2 occasions because I caught up to the car in front of me.

Surprised to hear they are dumbing it down, that's a real bummer!
Same experience here in NJ, both coaches I got over the radio worked well enough that I didn't feel I missed out from not having in car navigation/instruction.

I could imagine coaching from that perspective takes a bit longer to hone in on a course for these guys, so with the abbreviated sessions they have at the UDE tour events vs the UDE, plus the vaguely different safety protocols from state to state, I could understand the experience being drastically different from event to event.
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