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Below is a recounting of various car events I've attended along the years, from car club meets, autocrosses, track events, and enthusiast drives.

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	2000/09/16 Drive on Skyline
	2000-09-16 00:00 by Merlin in Cars After buying my '95 Miata, I had to take it on Skyline The picts are here

	2000/09/30 Drive on 9 down to Santa Cruz with friends in a Mitsubishi Eclipse
	2000-09-30 00:00 by Merlin in Cars A couple of weekends later, I went to Skyline again with a couple of friends and this time we drove down HWY 9 to Santa Cruz. The picts are here

2000/11/05 Dr Wong's Driving Clinic

2000-11-05 00:00 by Merlin in Cars

That day, I didn't drive as my Miata was having its failing transmission replaced with an RX7 one, but it's probably just as well because the drive got a bit crazy, and one of the drivers lost it in a turn while the front pack was going way too fast in a 1.5 lane road, downhill with blind turn after blind turn...
Luckily no one was hurt. The only disturbing part is when someone mentionned "damn, he spun out in the same turn than the other guy last time".
The picts are here

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	2001/03/23 Miata Performance Driving School at Thunderhill
	2001-03-23 00:00 by Merlin in Cars While this event was very enlightening and useful to learn how to control your car better, it was also a complete blast. Thanks a lot to all the people who put it together and all the instructors who volunteered their time. The picts are here

2001/10/27 Dr Wong's Driving Clinic

2001-10-27 00:00 by Merlin in Cars

I had promised myself that I wouldn't go to a drive like this before getting my rollbar (better be safe than sorry).
Now that I had it, it was time to give the drive a shot. Dr Wong gave a quick introduction and filled in for the speaker, who wasn't able to show up that day, and gave everyone a warning about not driving over their capabilities.
The drive went fine, and as a bonus, we saw a huge convoy of bikers heading north on HWY 1 (more than 500 of them)
The picts are here

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	2002/03/16 NASA HPDE event at Sears Point
	2002-03-16 00:00 by Merlin in Cars As my first NASA HPDE event, and my first time at Sears Point, it was interesting, but we ended up only getting half the track due to construction, and they had way too many people so it was not exactly the best event ever, but at least I got to watch other people in smaller groups run The picts are here

2002/03/22 Miata Performance Driving School at Thunderhill

2002-03-22 00:00 by Merlin in Cars

It was just too much fun last year for me not to go again. This year, I had my rollbar, and really went for it. It was perfect preparation for the upcoming days at Thunderhill that I signed up for.
Again, thanks a lot to all the people who put this even together and all the instructors who volunteered their time.
You can find all the pictures I took (170+) here (note that you can switch the picture size to original to see the full sized pictures).
You can also find the TH Miata Performance Driving School web pages here

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