I was doing HPDE days at CMP with turn one, then did a few time trails with SCCA, then went to NASA TT. I was able to get permission to skip the normal process of HPDE 1-4, check ride, provisional TT then TT license, by sending the director a verifiable resume with all my track experience along with a copy of my SCCA TT license. After they verified all that info they allowed me to sign up for a TT event. During this first event I was under a provisional TT license. I had to do the weekend without any issues (off track excursions, ignoring a flag, complaints from other racers etc), go to impound properly, and not miss any of the drivers meetings. Once I made it thru the provisional weekend I was signed off with a regular NASA TT license. Your mileage may vary, but this path also worked for a buddy of mine that followed me over from SCCA about a year later.
I was turned off at first about all the extra work to get the NASA TT license, and what seamed like a lot of extra scrutiny coming from SCCA, but it turns out I like these events a lot. Its a good group of people that work hard to keep the weekend moving and safe.
I don't know for sure what the criteria for getting the SCCA was. After about 30 track days with a few different groups and a few track nights in America, I applied for the SCCA time trail license and they gave it to me. Would they have done that with much less experience? Dont know. With that said the there was big experience level gap on the track at SCCA events. During a few time trails with them it seamed as if they had anything from pro level drivers to someone with one track night as there total experience. Not trying to knock SCCA at all, but there easy barrier to entry may end up making those events a little less safe, and probably the reason the NASA group I run with was so particular about the provisional to normal process for me, and others I have watched making the change.
I was turned off at first about all the extra work to get the NASA TT license, and what seamed like a lot of extra scrutiny coming from SCCA, but it turns out I like these events a lot. Its a good group of people that work hard to keep the weekend moving and safe.
I don't know for sure what the criteria for getting the SCCA was. After about 30 track days with a few different groups and a few track nights in America, I applied for the SCCA time trail license and they gave it to me. Would they have done that with much less experience? Dont know. With that said the there was big experience level gap on the track at SCCA events. During a few time trails with them it seamed as if they had anything from pro level drivers to someone with one track night as there total experience. Not trying to knock SCCA at all, but there easy barrier to entry may end up making those events a little less safe, and probably the reason the NASA group I run with was so particular about the provisional to normal process for me, and others I have watched making the change.