[Dean]

First, there are spots available still for Laguna Seca at then end of the month!!! Really great track, and small run groups...

The Red Rex performed quite well considering it's basically stock configuration and 3+ year old Perreli's.

Only adjusting tire pressure, I was able to get it fairly nuetral. The inside tires are very vocal so they were singing much of the way around the track.

While I did get passed more than usual in the stealth, there were a number of S4s and the like that were very surprised to see a WRX looming in their rear view mirrors and then disappearing after allowing it to pass.

My passenger seat was constantly full as well with people interested in a ride.

The event overall was very good. We had a 1 to 1 sudent to instructor ratio which was really good for everyone.

Friday was an Open track day for instructors as well as classroom time for people wanting to become instructors. It was rainy most of the day, so AWD was a great advantage.

Saturday was only slightly coudy and was our typical classroom time and paddock exercises for novices & intermediates in the morning while instructors and advanced students lapped and ran the exercises, followed by an afternoon of lapping for all.

Sunday was beautiful and laping for all.

I think I put over 100 track miles per day on the WRX and it performed almost flawlesly except the stock brake pads!

I had put the stockers back in for some reason a while back, and they began to fade almost imediately.

I strongly reccomend swaping out your front pads at minimum for some EBC greens or the like. I swapped them back in and fade was imediately gone and I could almost stand the car on it's nose... The EBCs are usually in stock at Tire Rack in Sparks.

I will need to bleed the brakes and probably put in some Ford/Motorcraft Heavy Duty Fluid before Laguna. This fluid is by far the choice for those who don't mind flushing their brake system between events, which is a good idea anyway. High dry boiling point and very inexpensive.

As an instructor, I didn't really get a chance to take any pictures except of the sunrise over turn 2...