My 2020 GT500 ride

So today I got the chance to do 4 laps at Old Bridge Englishtown Raceway Park on their short road course (1.1 miles 6 turns longest straight away 1600 ft) now its my first drive in anything north of 400 hp and I must say it's an absolute monster. Coming out of the second corner to that long straight the ride along instructor(no choice on that decision) said mash it and it just hooked and went. Everyone had to drive the cars in their auto settings so we could concentrate on just keeping the cars in the line. The handling is top notch and even the way it shifts is crisp clean and extremely fast. Unfortunately I was only able to muster the car up to about 105 in that 1500ft straight due to the instructors wanting us to coast through turns and drag race it out of the corner (I tried to use the throttle through the turn and got an ear full everytime.)
I 100% would recommend anyone that's gets a chance to drive one to do it. I got the ride along experience as a Bday present but I would definitely pay the $199 to do it again on a longer course.

Edit: pretty sure the car was never shut off the entire day except for refueling. It was low 80's all day with the a/c blasting the whole time also

Edit 2: youtube video don't mind my goofy ass face at the end.

I think the Xtreme Xperience was listening to that guy, the whole time you were driving.

Buy one and do the Track Attack. None of that annoying bullshit there.

I know he's an instructor and is there to help you, but man, the incessant chatter and yelling was annoying as hell. LOL.

wow, I would not have been able to do that. Some of those turns were at sub 40mph and he was making it seem as if you were flying out of control.

Got 2.5 minutes in, had to bail. JFC!

Wow. I'm already pissed they wouldn't give me a refund after canceling due to covid, but was excited to drive one of these, and a GT3(if they ever come back to Memphis)...but damn, idk if I can handle a guy grabbing my steering wheel.

i've done the gt3 at PBIR few years back, doing the 570s same track in december.

Cool experience OP, glad you had fun.


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Red Turtle said:

wow, I would not have been able to do that. Some of those turns were at sub 40mph and he was making it seem as if you were flying out of control.

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Bingo. I was getting frustrated just watching. Let a lamborghini pass...HELL NO, let me drive!

Kevins89notch said:

Bingo. I was getting frustrated just watching. Let a lamborghini pass...HELL NO, let me drive!

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Even worse is not being in a mode that would hold a gear instead of what appeared to be starbucks mode.

Made it further than me. I went about 90 seconds and couldn’t take it.

One thing for sure, @4.698gt, you'll never yell at your wife/girlfriend for complaining on your driving occasionally. THAT instructor is 10X worse than pretty much any passenger complaining. LOL.

wow i hope i dont get that instructor in december. The dude last time in the porsche was chill.

I would eject that guy from my car after about 15 seconds of that shit..... Good god.

Yeah so rewatching that a few times, you really see how intrusive the "instructor" is during the haile drive but I wasn't thinking if him going around the short track. Maybe another time I'll do it again with a different instructor/company and get someone a bit more lenient. Still was a blast and worth the $$(it was a bday present)

I’d dead stare at dude and say “touch that wheel one more time and find out how godless I am.”

Well, my view is that it's probably his car so he can panic, but it wouldn't make me want to ever go back again.

Jiffy said:

Well, my view is that it's probably his car so he can panic, but it wouldn't make me want to ever go back again.

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It is a driving experience and he is just the instructor.