Xtreme Xperience

Sure, driving your own car around a track sounds as easy as showing up with the right car and the right attitude It’s finding the best track day for you, your vehicle, and your driving ability that makes finding the right event a challenge. Luckily for you, there are a wide variety of driving events to get you out on the track; even if it’s your first time: These types of events are exactly what they sound like; a day of driving around the track that’s open to a variety of cars and a variety of drivers with no instruction. These events are typically arranged by anything from car brands (Honda’s, for example) to groups with a broader set of members like the SCCA or Sports Car Club of America.

Most cost between 5 and 10 times the average new car in the U.S. ($37,000) with $200,000-$500,000 being an easy benchmark for a new supercar purchase. It’s fair to ask at this point, why not hire more people, produce more cars, lower the price, and lessen the inaccessible nature of these cars? The few number of cars that is produced means that manufacturers choose who gets to purchase their cars, effectively creating a club that they can form however they choose. We could decide that our cars were tailored perfectly to the qualities exhibited in left-handed people and as a result, we were only going to sell cars to those interested in our car who were left-handed.

When we first started Xtreme Xperience in 2012, there was no other company in the world that provided the same services as us. Not only were we faced with the challenge of building our business from the ground up, but we also had to invent and define the industry our company would become a part of. When it came to putting Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and Porsches on a racetrack, we were in the driver’s seat all by ourselves. We’ve come a long way from our humble beginnings and we’ve learned some truly invaluable lessons along the way.

There’s a reason the Corvette was the most-hyped car of 2019 and most divisive of 2020 - managing to grab headlines even in the midst of a global pandemic. They want Chevrolet’s first mid-engined Corvette to be a lot more, well, like a supercar. The writer of this article drove the C8 Corvette and GT500 on the same day on the same track to capture some of the photos in this article, beginning with time in the driver’s seat of the GT500. And of course, as it is 2021, a Corvette E-Ray is also being developed with some rumors claiming a 1000-horsepower hybrid Corvette.