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    registration is open on motorsportsreg.com
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    NER SCCA announces a Club Racing Experience event at NHMS SundayAugust 10th.
    Real wheel to wheel racing without all the paperwork hasslesone thinks of with SCCA.
    Check out the link:
    http://www.ner.org/announcement/club-racing-experience

    come on out and give it a try. you might get hooked.
    JB Swan
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    CRE huge success.
    Many thanks to all those who helped make this first time event work. Many thanks to the 11 (I think) newly minted race car drivers who raced. We had a cool variety of cars and lots of big smiles.
    Most of the racers were there to try racing but three also used the event as an alternative driver’s school to get their Club Racing license.
    We are so impressed we are adding another CRE to the schedule for the October Thompson event. It will be held on Saturday and Sunday 10/4-5.
    For those of you who do not know what a CRE is check out this link on the New England Region website.
    http://www.ner.org/announcement/club-racing-experience
    Dick Patullo
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    I think this is the BEST way to get people a license and get them racing with us! I like it so much I think we should do it at every event so throughout the year people can get signed off to race as they get enough track time!

    Great job!

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    I posted this on the NER forum too, but I talked at length with one of the drivers in this event. He owned the car he brought and said that he was using this event to get some non-wave-by seat time before jumping into the deep end with us. He had a blast. This is a great idea and I concur with Stephen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by team-gpracing View Post
    ...I talked at length with one of the drivers in this event. He owned the car he brought and said that he was using this event to get some non-wave-by seat time before jumping into the deep end with us. He had a blast...
    Sounds like the 12A-powered 3rd-gen tubeframe RX-7? Super nice guy, I meet him in impound, glad he had a good time! I suspect he'll be racing with us soon. - Greg

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    This Club Racing Experience rhymes with the low-key way EMRA did it for years and is a great plan!
    It gave me a way to start wheel to wheel driving with a less than well prepared car with only safety stuff up to snuff.
    Kudos to NE Region!
    phil hunt

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    Quote Originally Posted by Greg Amy View Post
    Sounds like the 12A-powered 3rd-gen tubeframe RX-7?
    Am I that transparent?
    '77 Mazda RX-3
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    Quote Originally Posted by StephenB View Post
    I think this is the BEST way to get people a license and get them racing with us! I like it so much I think we should do it at every event so throughout the year people can get signed off to race as they get enough track time!

    Great job!
    agreed, this program is a great step in the right direction for the club.
    Jason Carroll - NER IT7 #07

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    @Stephen-strongly agree!! This is a much better way to attract, enroll, and license new people by making it simple as well as available.
    @Dick-if you remember EMRA, then you must remember why the original premise of IT was so potent and why it grew so big, so fast.
    Now see if you can recapture that and club racing will once again attract dreamers like me.
    If you build it, they will come.
    phil hunt

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    Awesome news. A friend of mine was there and did it. He normally watches his wife race and now he got to give it a shot. They already have to prepped cars, so this is perfect.
    Dave Gran
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