Topic: Problems with going too slow?
Only 2 people on our team have any race experience. 1 did karts about 10-15 years ago and the other is in his first half-dozen races of Formula Ford. 2 Others have "track day" and autocross experience, but nothing that allowed uncontrolled passing. Everyone else would be complete rookies to a track (well, besides pre-race testing dates). We would just hope to actually finish the event without crashing, so I don't foresee any full-throttle driving from anyone.
Would getting lapped over and over and over again by nearly everyone cause us to get yanked or black-flagged? As team captain, I don't want everyone to invest $100+ travel expenses and, despite having a car that still functions perfectly well, be told we can't go on the track because we are driving too slowly.
Yes, I know things can break and it's all a risk as we may be crashed, etc. etc. I just don't want everything else to be ok and then not be able to drive the car.
For an example via comparison-- it would be like taking an old small-engined vw bus onto the California freeway while everyone else is traveling normal freeway speeds (not stopped in traffic).. We're the ones in the vw bus... And knowing Willow Springs, I imagine we would be getting lapped by frontrunners about every 4th lap.
--Spank