Introduction

After many years of participating in Drivers Education events with the Porsche club, we decided that it was time to move up to a more competitive form of high performance driving. A friend and fellow PCA club member pointed me in the direction of a group called NASA (National Auto Sport Association). This group offers a stepping-stone approach to full racing in the area of full-open passing in the highest driver educational group, which they call HPDE (High Performance Driving Event) and then through a series called TT (Time Trials). During the 2004 season, I participated in the TT series, which in essence the Time Trial drivers circulate with the highest HPDE group, which is Group 4 and via the transponders mounted on their vehicles, they log lap times. At the end of each session, their best lap time sets them in an order, which is based on the class their car falls into. I ran in the “D” class for the full season. In the end, I participated in five TT events during the 2004 season and accumulated enough points to take the season championship in the TT class D. During the off-season, we made the necessary modifications to the car to be able to participate in the GTS Challenge (German Touring Sports Car Challenge), which is a series run under the umbrella of the NASA organization. GTS is a full wheel-to-wheel racing program and as such requires a competition license.