Getting A NASA Road Racing License In My HKS-Supercharged GR86 

Thank you so much @LarryChenPhoto for sharing your competition school experience with us! We are beyond grateful that you chose NASA to get your racing license and we cant wait to see you in action at our events!

A good racer understand the "Art of Cruise" is what I was trained under. Understanding pace, posture, and situational awareness. Once you get past where to keep your eyes aimed (harder than it sounds for most) and you have some acquiantance with the layout/track it makes it much easier to move thru traffic and find lines. Keep at it Larry, Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast.

Rob Dahm posted a video a few days ago about him doing racing school with Radical SR8. It's one thing thinking you're drving fast - it's another actually understanding your car and what the race line REALLY is on the given track. Loading/unloading suspension, understanding tire grip, understand where you have to look and what weight transfer does to your car. That is a steep learning curve. Well, Rob wants to race his 3-rotor up Pikes Peak Hill Climb - any mistake there has high stakes consequences. ✌️

How the hell have I not seen your channel until now. Thanks for sharing!

Happy for you Larry to enjoy the fruits of your labor!

Great info. Shoulda subbed a look time ago.

19:55 RIP. This is a dangerous sport and I wish you the best of luck out there Larry!

I started NASA HPDE when I turned 18. Eventually moved to TT, and now W2W. The most important thing is finding comfortability and having fun. Take it easy Larry it's all good. Stay in the moment and focus on performance not the result. Helps the nerves.

Man it sucks to hear about that accident. I could not imagine your mental state having to endure that while trying to get your license.

*_Wow. I always thought they were paid to teach. It turns out that it's all about the culture 💯_*

Hi Larry CONGRATULATIONS on passing the test i'm there right behind you on this journey and to film it too well one deserves what one puts in and your doing it for the passion a job well done📸🏎🍾🥂😎

Wow! Thank you Larry! Out of hundreds of videos watched- this has been, by far the best and most informative one I’ve seen for an amateur (wanna be) w2w road racer like me. Thanks So much again!!!💥💥💥

i really wish we saw this car more ... i keep going back in those longer videos u made some time ago about its build i really like it and i dont see many ppl talking about that car or its brother

Wow, what a journey and experience. Hats off to the instructors for paying it forward and their attention to detail. It's great to know they are highly focused on safety. I'll never forget my drill sergeant back in the day telling me attention to detail may save your life one day.

Great video Larry, thanks for sharing the experience. The racecar driver who was killed that day at the track was a coworker and good friend of mine. RIP Andrew we miss you.

Wow! I learned so much from this video. Not sure I will ever get to this level. I’ll just stick to my 3-4 track events per year. But this really got me thinking. I like how strict they are too. Definitely interesting. Thanks for the vid Larry!

Hey Larry, I thoroughly enjoyed your video, the real start of your racing life. It brought back alot of memories. I have loved cars since i was 3 yo. But, I was a late starter getting my comp licence at 42 years old. I circuit raced sports cars, open wheelers and tarmac rallied all over Australia, solidly for 20 years. Without blowing my horn, I had alot of wins and places over the years. I'm sure with your level of passion and seriousness, that yiu too will have many successes. Enjoy the journey, as I know you will 😍😍

That helmet is fucking dope

Awesome video. Thank you. Learned a lot.

Come to Nationals at Utah Motorsports Campus!

*_Damn R.I.P to that driver…_*

Awesome video. I really enjoy the videos of you driving or day to day life. Personal videos are fun. Keep up the good work Larry!

This was really fantastic to watch. I don't think I would ever get a license, as I am just not near enough to any tracks, but I really enjoyed seeing the process.

Thank you for sharing your experiences. This was insightful and someday would like to be at your level.

I got a 1 year membership with NASA when I bought my 2024 GR Corolla Circuit Edition so I really want to do the same process. I won’t be using my GR bc I bought it specifically as a car to drive occasionally and keep for a very long time since it is actually a limited build car unlike my hellcat that I was sold being told it would be “Highly collectible and valued 10x it original price” bullshit (which btw I didn’t believe)but got it at $500 above msrp. However, I do think I’ll buy a GR86 and build it out as a track car for that purpose! Loved the video Larry, as always!!

YESSSSSSSSSS we need more of this the experiences of ppl before during and after getting your competition license

An amazing video on your experience, thank you for sharing, I help run the HPD program for NASA SoCal and couldn't think of a better group of people to run with. Hope to see you racing with us the rest of this season and more in the future

It’s like the military Larry once a driver you’re always a driver, you have to hit the track every now and then Sir. Because we never stop been a soldier 😊

Great info. I’m impatiently waiting for my first track day. You have given me an entire different perspective on this. Thank you!🙏🏽

Wow you’ll have to bring that by T14 sometime 😍 Congrats on getting out on the track, many never do!

I gave up on racing almost 16 years ago. Now I'm going back at it. I would love more info on this class.

Larry, you are such a great presenter!!! Mercy, #chenforpresident!!!

Amazing video, inspired me to do similar, good luck!

Really enjoyed the information. Also Race In Paradise to the fallen driver.

Thank you for this. I’ve been wanting to track my car safely and the best way and I think NASA’s HPDE is the best route to go instead of random track days. This sounds more rewarding as you complete more races. Please keep this series going and share it to us!

I got a GRC and wasn't able to redeem this track day because the car had one previous owner. It sucks because this is my first experience with the GRC. Oh well, they told me I can have annual membership for $75 a year.

*_This is the dream!_*

congrats dude!!!!!!!! now come to the east Coast and race with us....or just film my cars because they are unique 😁

Hey Larry! Just wondering will content you filmed in the Philippines be featured in your channel? Would love to see more car culture diversity content 🙌

Bought my Ultra Bee they day after you released the single track video on the Ultra. Within the week went to a 21/18 setup and some cockpit mods. I absolutely love this bike! It really shines in the woods and the gassers love to chase it.

Sick! LFG Larry! Nice work man and so stoked to see you going to that next level! Thanks for documenting this and inspiring the next generation (and myself)!

Really enjoyed the new contents. It's always been great to see how you transcribed others around the world and with their passions about cars. But this video really brings it another level of just you, Larry. Glad you can share to the rest of us who you are! Cheers!

Was great to be in class with you! I was in the blue golf r, hope to see you out there soon!

It's the right car! My first time on track was similar. Once you get in the groove and calm down you gain confidence. Time in the seat is the key.

Great video and driving! Brought back some good and PTSD type memories when I went through it! 👍🏽 to the instructors and NASA for putting together a great program

Suprised Larry is just now getting into "driving" ....dudes a legend

Race start are what fully hooked me too! That was my first SE46 race weekend (I’m the driver who dropped in on Sunday). Can’t emphasize what you say about instructors enough. Steve and Dennis are both awesome dudes! Congrats on your license! See you in a few weeks?

I thought you were about to go driving with Astronauts! Good vid, and very informative!

Really great video, thank you for being so open and honest. 🙏

Is there an age limit? Im to old to become racer Im sure, but would love to just learn how to drive better

This against your usual content, I bet this doesn't rack up a bunch of views and comments, but I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I've done a bunch of HPDE and time trial track days, but haven't taken that next step to get licensed. This was a great peek into what it's like and a little about what could be expected and learned. Thanks and cheers!

Love this candid video into the entry into the road race world with NASA

I would never understand why trackday here in U.S. requires us to have our windows down,they affect the aero of the car.

Thank you for sharing your experience. This was very helpful.

RIP. Stay safe out there.

What is the opening?

I wish we had this in India :(

nice, good start

Honestly doing sim racing can really help. What you're talking about here is the same etiquette in sim racing. If you're not at least up to their door, then you back off and wait until you have a good run. You don't dive bomb, you don't edge them out with your front bumper to their rear bumper. If someone is faster than you just let them by, it's not doing any good trying to block them. All of that stuff, you get used to having patience and passing only when you have a clear opening. Obviously on sim racing you can't point each other through or anything like that of course.

Thank you. Coming from a family unknown to racing, and hearing the stories that is it just “unattainable”…but knowing deep down it’s possible, this is a video I needed. When the path is unknown, this was a spark of light

Great video

I absolutely love to see this! I'm here for the journey and am actually starting off on it myself. I did my first autocross a few weeks ago and have probably done four events since! I am doing my first HPDE day soon. I started as an automotive photographer traveling, so you're genuinely inspiring me, and I dream of capturing you racing one day or racing alongside you! Thanks again for another fantastic video!

More car enthusiasts learning about high performance driving and getting a racing license is a great thing. Welcome to the racer journey!

Look frank we are famous😊. Well done for the license!

What a fantastic and heartfelt video Larry, thank you for sharing, and best wishes.

So you got the fulll experience. Jeez that is intimidating

Larry thanks for sharing your story's on cars and tracks around the world are amazing.

Kudos to your peeps that video'd you from the stands and off course and to whoever had the presence of mind to put GoPro's on other cars to get footage of you.

Spoiler looks a little shaky, i hope its secure

One of my favorite episodes

Loved this Larry,

Such an awesome vid

🤩 congratulations Larry!

Illuminating

LOVE IT LARRY!!

The jokes from your peers are what keeps us from messing up AGAIN !!

This topic has me intrigued. Thanks for sharing Larry, I had no knowledge of this this process until now.

trying to trick with flags is pointless and nonsense in training in my opinion.