I've been to several DE's but none in the rain.

I'm not concerned about driving in the rain, but am concerned about having the windows down in pouring rain. especially with an instructor in the car where both windows have to be down.

Do you get 10 gallons of water in the car or what?????

Wouldn't it totally ruin your back seats, etc???

Do you drape the interior with towels, or how is that handled?

I guess on a dedicated track car it doesn't really matter.

Thanks

 

Usually the general rule is keep your windows all the way down or all the way up, but I've only been with a couple different clubs.

Be careful in the rain and space yourself out from the others. I got sideways several times and saw several cars go off in the grass at the last track day. (PIR in the rain)

 

Less gets in than you think. The worst is a spin in the wet because more grass/mudd tends to end up in the car instead of on the car.

Then again, if you're worried about wet seats maybe you should be using a different car on the track.

 

During my one rain event, we were allowed to roll up the windows and use the blinkers to signal pass by ...

 

Was this a NASA event?



I was wondering the same thing.

 

No it was a Find the Line event @ MAM ... it also happened to be my 1st ever HPDE Fond memories

I haven't been in a situation with NASA where it is raining ...

 

I did the same.

 

At my last event, it was raining pretty heavily... Surprisingly, it didn't get into the car at all even though I had both of front windows down whole time. Just don't take your foot off the gas pedal.

 

yeah, not much really gets in unless you slow down

I've put them up before in a SERIOUS downpour, that we get all the time, but again, at that point, the corner workers can see the car, but can't make out that the windows are up.

 

I have never been to an HPDE event in the rain where we were allowed to roll up the windows. You just grin and bear the rain -- it's not that bad.

It's dangerous to run with the windows up because if something happens and you break a window, the glass goes all over you. If you break a window that's down, the glass just goes inside the door.

I also have a theory that HPDE organizers force you to run with windows down as a deterrent/punishment for spinning off course into the dirt. If you have ever done this, you know how much work it is to clean your interior.

 

+1.

This is what I've experienced.

 

My first DE was a rainly day fronts down, amber lights on. Rain doesnt really get into the car. No issues for me. If its allowed you could always take out the back seat - 2 clips+3 bolts.

 

You're telling me! I literally had one inch of dirt everywhere in my car after one such excursion. My passenger was pissed. :-p

To the original poster: Living out here in NM I never get an opportunity to drive in the wet. Annual rainfall is only like 10". It's a pity because I really like driving in the rain. You can probably stay pretty dry by simply removing the rear seats and putting two towels across the floor carpet. Very little water will get into the front at speed. Also, dealer part desks have rain guards for the front windows.

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I as well drove an event in the rain. The windows were required to be down. It's just fine though, the only thing that got wet was a little bit of my shoulder, the rest of the car was bone dry.

At speed, all the water generally hits your rear window... which you can have up.

 

I have done several days in the rain this year and almost one in snow... no thanks to that.

I must say I didn't really notice aside from lack of perfect traction and at speed very little rain got into the car.