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Originally Posted by robbo mcs
I shared a dedicated trailered race car with my wife for around 10 or so track days. Quite a few people at our local club do as well.
We are similar height, so we didn't really need to adjust seats or harnesses, which was a plus. However, after every session we needed to change timing transponders, and add/remove an extra number on the side of the car.
She was driving nowhere near as hard as me, so when I had the hot tire temperatures optimised for me, she was coming off with the tyres 2psi lower.
We generally ran in a 4 group format, and ran opposite groups, so had one session to change over. It made the days very hectic for me, always seemed to be a rush to refuel, check wheels, etc. If something minor goes wrong, it gets really hectic.
So it can work, but it is hard work, and you don't have much time to relax or socialise.
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I'm in agreement with all this. One thing to note is that if you have fuel drums and a refueling rig in your paddock space, it can streamline things during the driver change.
One benefit of sharing the car on the same day that hasn't been discussed is being able to review data and video. Same conditions and same car provide a lot of good things to discuss between the drivers