Hi Ed,

  As I remember it, SCCA drivers school was little more than a "testing" session.  Experienced drivers would critique your driving to make sure you were safe and had the skills to go "real racing". So you either "had it" or you didn't.

 I've got a friend who recently bought a Porsche 944 Turbo and is going to Porsche Club Drivers Educations  events and he says  they are not anything like SCCA's driver's schools. Anything like "racing" is discouraged. They go fast but it's not competition.  But he is having fun.

He has always considered himself a "hot" driver (on the street).  Now he has become a bit humble.  Just back from VIR he commented that compared to him, even if I was only a feeble racer, I must have been "damn good" (his words not mine.)  Now he says he has an idea  what racing must be all about. :-D And he's not sure he is ready for it. 

Ed Diehl <mediehljr@...> wrote:

Hi, Rick.  I remember in 1958 I was working at Michelson (sp) Motors in Baltimore and we took a Volvo demo car to Dorsey to run . At that time it was a time trial course, one car at a time and we shared the car among three of us. The other two guys were SCCA drivers and I had yet to go to SCCA driver school. They were not happy when I bettered their times and finished 3rd in the Sports Car ,under 1600 cc class. My only time on dirt. Cheers, Ed.

Rick Mandelson <rollingthunder78@verizon.net> wrote:

Larry

 

I ran Dr. Ben Poster's Fiat modified open wheeler (home built Formula Jr.) in 1960 at Dorsey.

 

Rick Mandelson

Ellicott City, Maryland

 

 

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From: larryj300

To: Marlboro_Raceway@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:45 PM

Subject: [Marlboro_Raceway] Dirt Road Course at Dorsey

Did anyone out there attend the sports car races held on a dirt road
course created at Dorsey Speedway (Elkridge, Md.)? It was first held
on 9-13-1958 and won by Bob Kahmer.
Like Marlboro, it utilized part of the oval and went off back into the
woods. I believe a few more events were held in 1959 and 1960.

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