What's the typical weight for a horse? For comparison, my car is just under 3000 lbs. With the trailer, combined weight was around 5400 lbs.

And I take it you can't tie down a horse tightly like you would a car. I assume the horse is loosely reined to the trailer, and naturally penned in closely on the sides? And the horse can only stand in place the whole way?

To clarify, I usually just drive the Porsche to/from the track as I'm within an hour of the club's "home" tracks in the VA/DC area.

But Watkins Glen is a famous track up by finger lakes region of NY, about a 630 mile round trip from DC-area. I decided that driving the car 300miles to the event, driving it very hard for 3 days, then driving it back 300miles to home puts some unnecessary wear on components optimized for track driving (e.g. tires that are great for dry, merely ok for wet). By putting the car on a trailer and towing it up there means no worries other than the hard driving track miles. And even if something broke, I'm not stranded.

But unlike other club members, I don't own a trailer - hence the u-haul rental, which I learned about from some club members. My SUV (FJ cruiser) didn't pass u-haul's check as being capable of towing their trailer + my car. So I went down the route of renting a tow vehicle. National and Hertz don't allow towing on their rentals. So a 3/4 ton Dodge Ram pickup truck from Enterprise became the tow vehicle. And that meant I could easily load my stuff, wife's stuff, extra set of rain tires, various tools - jack, jack stands, etc. Even planned to bring my bike, but weather looked iffy for riding, so that stayed behind.

Trailer was detached at the track, and driving to/from hotel or in town was just driving the Dodge Ram. -- not the different from most folks that drive these kinds of trucks as their daily drivers.

And during the drive with the trailer, I wondered about tolls ....

Did you best the F1 lap times?

Side note: I'm about to join the COTA flag marshal crew. In addition to the big races I already work, I'll be working track days, prototype testing, etc.

My next goal is to get out and work more tracks. The Glen would be fun. Laguna Seca is probably my top track to want to work.

What's the typical weight for a horse? For comparison, my car is just under 3000 lbs. With the trailer, combined weight was around 5400 lbs.

And I take it you can't tie down a horse tightly like you would a car. I assume the horse is loosely reined to the trailer, and naturally penned in closely on the sides? And the horse can only stand in place the whole way?