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typically these things can be found from a fellow participant if needed. Maybe bring along an extra quart of oil or two as well.
Your Car Will Need:
For the car, you will need to have a tech form lled out saying that your car is “ t” for duty. This form is available on the registration site and can be lled out by your local shop, or if you are savvy with a wrench, lled out by yourself. It will contain items like the following (I’ll only hit a few of the major items, keep in mind there are more to check).
1. Tech Inspection: Operational status of the car: Do brake lights, taillights, wipers, seat belts, etc. work?
2. Tires: You don’t need any fancy race tires to participate, but a high
performance street tire is a good idea (typically how a Porsche comes from the factory), and there needs to be adequate tread depth to provide maximum grip.
3. Brakes Your brakes MUST be in good shape with plenty of life remaining. I highly recommend that you ask your local shop about this, if you are not familiar with brake pad thicknesses. We will show you going into a corner that your Porsche can stop on a dime and give you 8 cents change, so you will use up some brake pads!
4. Fresh Brake Fluid: I can’t stress a high temp brake uid enough. As you heat your brakes up on a race track, you can boil a cheap uid quickly, which will result in a very soft brake pedal and inability to slow the car properly. The uidshouldbe ushedwithinamonthor so of the event. I recommend uids like
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