Checkered Flag Track Events

Organizers

David Kan
ACNA and PCA certified HPDE instructor

Lorenzo Tan
ACNA certified HPDE instructor

Lorenzo has had a long interest in cars, but after attending his first HPDE event with the Audi Club in 2009, that interest evolved into an obsession. The thrill and challenge of finding limitations not only of a car but of one's self became highly addictive.

Not long after, he became a certified instructor with the Audi Club in 2013. He has driven and coached drivers on several different race circuts including Laguna Seca, Willow Springs, Buttonwillow and Spring Mountain Motorsport Ranch. He loves to share and exchange knowledge on how to be a better driver covering all aspects from car setup to driving mentality.

His passion for motorsport and driving on track is something he wants to share with everyone and is dedicated to provide you with the best track day experience.

Some of our Instructors ...

Eddie Alexander
ACNA certified HPDE instructor

Eddie Alexander resides in Corona, California. His love of high performance driving began in April of 2006. Since then he has logged over 110 track days, and over 13,000 miles. He's driven multiple days on the following tracks:

Las Vegas Motor Speedway outside road course.
Willow Springs International Raceway
Sonoma Raceway
Thunder Hill Raceway Park
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Buttonwillow Raceway Park
Spring Mountain Motorsport Ranch
California Auto Club Speedway
Miller Motorsport Park
Chuckwalla Valley Raceway
Bondurant Wildhorse Pass Motorsport Park

He's been a certified driving instructor for Audi Club North America since 2008. He enjoys helping people become better drivers, learning skills on the track that make them better drivers on the road. He has helped both men and women of all ages-from 18-70+ years old. He looks forward to meeting you and imparting his knowledge and enthusiasm for high performance driving.

Jerry Buza
ACNA certified HPDE instructor

Anthony Chan
ACNA and PCA certified HPDE instructor

Anthony is domiciled in the Southern California Region and attends high performance driving events across the country. His passion in motorsports started in 2007 and by 2010 he became ACNA certified instructor and later, PCA.

Anthony frequents Buttonwillow Raceway and Willow Springs Raceway along with Thunderhill Raceway, Sonoma Raceway and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in northern California.

He is vastly experienced in making the race track wider by going four off, WRC style, Applying rear end pressure, and going deep, into a corner.

Anthony's extensive training, qualifications and expertise in a diverse range of advanced driving roles qualifies him to be one of the selected drivers to help you win the HPDE championship belt.

John Deenihan
ACNA and PCA certified HPDE instructor

John “Deeno” Deenihan began his tracking experience in 2000 at Sonoma Raceway in the pouring rain. In the most reassuring way, his instructor reminded him that it was raining for everyone, all on track were novices, and to drive within his skill set. It is that positive coaching manner that has stayed with him since. Five years later he began instructing with the Southern California Audi Club and has been doing so on tracks throughout California, Nevada and Utah, gaining insightful perspective on regional and world-class tracks.

In 2009, he became president of the organization and through 2016 was the eventmaster of fifteen HPDE weekends. Periodically, he also coaches with Hooked on Driving (HOD) providing in-car, as well as classroom instruction. Regarding HPDE events, he views this non-competitive, instructional format as the perfect introduction to track driving, increasing overall awareness of car handling dynamics, and the pure enjoyment of developing car control skills.

Riccardo Falconeri
ACNA certified HPDE instructor

Dan Hastings
ACNA certified HPDE instructor

Belinko Matsuura
ACNA certified HPDE instructor

Steve Sherwood
ACNA certified HPDE instructor

Steve is currently coaching for Hooked on Driving - NorCal. He Has instructed over 225 events since January 1999. He campaigned his Audi S4 in the SF Region SCCA Solo2 autocross in 2000 and won 3rd place in C-Street Prepared class and raced in SF region for SCCA-Club Racing in 2003 and 2004 for a total of 15 races.

Having approximately 260 total track days under his belt, Steve has experience at numerous race tracks including Thunderhill, Sears Point, Laguna Seca, Buttonwillow, Willow Springs, Spring Mtn-Pahrump NV, Reno-Fernley, Second Creek-Denver CO, and Miller Motorsports-Toulle UT. Steve also has instructed for several car clubs such as Audi Club, Miata Club, Subaru Club, BMWCCA, Tracquest, SCCA Street School at Thunderhill, NASA-Socal, NASA-NorCal, Hooked on Driving, Northern California Racing Club.

Tao Urban
ACNA certified HPDE instructor

Tao has been a high-performance driving instructor for the Audi Club of North America since 2006. He has received training from the Bob Bondurant High Performance Driving School, Skip Barber Racing School and Team O’Neil Rally School.

He can and has instructed drivers from across the spectrum, from acclimating novices to the track environment to coaching those who are more advanced and are looking to learn new approaches or improve their lap times.

His background as an art and design professor has given him the skills to quickly assess whether or not people are learning effectively in a situation and whether or not their learning experience can be improved.

His goal when out on track is to make sure his student is steadily improving their skill set without loosing sight of the “fun factor” of track days.

Will Vogel
ACNA certified HPDE instructor

Will has participated in Performance Driving since 2008 including Audi Club HPD, BMW Club HPD, POC HPD, Bondurant School, Scuderia 7 (Nurburgring), Team O'Neil Rally School, California Rally Series, SKUSA 4 Kart and many others that he cannot remember off the top of his head. His driving experience also spans an array of vehicles which includes a: Audi R8 V8, Audi R8 V10, Audi TT, BMW Z3 MCoupe, Corvette C6, Cadillac CTS, Corvette ZR1, Mitsubishi 3000GT SL, Subaru Impreza, Subaru WRX, Subaru WRX STI, Ford Focus, Ford Focus RS, Ford Fiesta, Ford Fiesta ST, Suzuki Swift, Renault Clio, VW Scirocco, BMW 3 Series, 125cc Shifter Kart, VW Beetle "Baja Bug", Can Am Maverick DX, Can Am Maverick X3 Maxx, Polaris RZR 1000XP. After a long list of cars he has driven, his personal favorite and current track/rally car - a 1990 Honda Civic DX "EF" (on the outside). He has been lucky enough to span the full array of four wheeled vehicles on many different circuits, tracks, and roads around the world and will more than likely have some knowledge that he can impart upon you to strengthen your driving technique.

During the day, he manages industrial real estate, raises his new daughter, eats barbeque that he cooks, fabricates parts for his vehicles and does some bang bang on the side. Rarely, he gets to do his second favorite activity, visiting the great outdoors for days on end for fishing, hunting, and/or sight seeing.