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Old 07-20-03, 10:53 PM
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just wanna share a pic of me on the track

Llew, the director of AARRF, capped a shot of me zippin around.... and yes the stickers add 50-60 HP!!!!



AARRF is a group that runs some local track events, mad props to them for making the events happen.
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nice!!!! What track is that Brainard?(spelling?) Your lucky you have a track to run at I dream of the day our state/county pulls their heads out of their asses and build us a track!!
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not brainerd raceway, but ive been there too and love it, this was at st.cloud, a smaller but very fun cource.

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cool how long?
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Do you at least get money for slapping stickers on your FD? I know guys that race bikes do, but they all are really adamant about dumping the stickers once a sponsor fails to pay up.
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Very Nice! We have a place like that down here in Dallas/Fort Worth its called Motorsports Ranch havent had a chance to get there yet but will be going soon when my fd is up and running again.
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how fast were you able to get on the long straightaway? Long long of a track is it? 1.5 mile 2 miles?

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Very Nice! We have a place like that down here in Dallas/Fort Worth its called Motorsports Ranch havent had a chance to get there yet but will be going soon when my fd is up and running again.
MSR is an absolute BLAST! Man, I can't wait to get out there again......I'm addicted to road racing
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Damain,

Nice pic. Perhaps I'll have the privelage of sharing the track with you and Captain Farrell...when I finally decide to attend a MADS VIR (formerly @ Summit Point) event?? Or perhaps I'll hook up with Tim Benton and go back to Road Atlanta. Talk about a serious race track (hee hee LOL )
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Here's a link to some pics of one of my MDC drivers education events. This was March 2003:

http://board.motorsportsdrivingclub....hp?threadid=63
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Originally posted by SleepR1
Damain,

Nice pic. Perhaps I'll have the privelage of sharing the track with you and Captain Farrell...when I finally decide to attend a MADS VIR (formerly @ Summit Point) event??
I am not invited?
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I ran the pre-FIA (no chicane on the back straight) version of Road Atlanta for my Barber 3-day school... i'm not sure i'd want to run that circuit in a car that i'm financially liable for!

Maybe the final down hill corner isn't as hairy now, but i doubt it.




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Damain,

Nice pic. Perhaps I'll have the privelage of sharing the track with you and Captain Farrell...when I finally decide to attend a MADS VIR (formerly @ Summit Point) event?? Or perhaps I'll hook up with Tim Benton and go back to Road Atlanta. Talk about a serious race track (hee hee LOL )
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I am not invited?
Actually Damon, I think Manuelo is a tad confused.......we're talking about Motorsport Ranch in Granbury, TX, and he's talking about the Mid Atlantic Driving Seminar out in VA......

Come out to Fort Worth on vacation, Manny
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Dammit I wish there were some road race tracks around here. Just auto-x
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Originally posted by GoodfellaFD3S
Come out to Fort Worth on vacation, Manny
Wow, that's a HAUL!
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Not to thread hijack, but while we're on the subject of nation-wide track meetings, will anyone be at the Trackmasters Watkins Glen event on Sept. 1-2?
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Originally posted by TurboFD
cool how long?
i think st.cloud is 1.2 miles
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Originally posted by Tim Benton
how fast were you able to get on the long straightaway? Long long of a track is it? 1.5 mile 2 miles?

Tim
they put a chikane (spelling?) on the end of the straight so you don't go flying off into the trees, but one of the sweeping turns is banked slightly so you can fly in there, but the track is only 1.2 miles so in the straight I have seen 110 before the chikane if I come into the straight right... it also depends on how they setup the track, they do it different sometimes.

brainerd raceway is huge, I get to 135-140 into turn one (I'm stock HP) and modified cars can get to 170+ going into turn 1, it is supposedly the fastest turn in the nation or so I was told.
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Originally posted by SleepR1
Damain,

Nice pic. Perhaps I'll have the privelage of sharing the track with you and Captain Farrell...when I finally decide to attend a MADS VIR (formerly @ Summit Point) event?? Or perhaps I'll hook up with Tim Benton and go back to Road Atlanta. Talk about a serious race track (hee hee LOL )
nice pics from MDC, will you be going to MRR at road america coming up?
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Originally posted by damian
nice pics from MDC, will you be going to MRR at road america coming up?
Thanks...no plans to be @ MRR Road America.

Upcoming track events for me:

-MDC Friday evening open lapping July 25 Putnam Park
-SVTOA July 26 IRP as instructor
-MDC Friday evening open lapping August 8 Putnam Park
-Mid Ohio with Todd Serota's TracQuest Sept 1/2. http://www.tracquest.com/
-OctoberFAST @Road America with Badger Bimmer BMW CCA as instructor October 3/4/5 http://www.badgerbimmers.org/calendar/calendar.html

Also have to do a couple of autocrosses in Walesboro IN to keep my Mazdaspeed Motorsports Development parts purchasing privelages http://www.cscc-scca.org/

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cool, i have never been to MADS, whats the scoop on that?
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www.mazdadrivers.com

p.s. Nobody at the Glen? :-(



Originally posted by damian
cool, i have never been to MADS, whats the scoop on that?
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nice pic Damian...

my parents have a cabin on Lake Koronis, just under an hour southwest of St. Cloud... maybe my brother and i could make it up there sometime in the next few months... is there a website where i could find some info on that track? Thanks.

Jimmy
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hey jimmy, yeah, here are sites from the 2 clubs that i run with up at stcloud:

http://www.aarrf.com
http://www.vscr.org
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I'm about to send the money in to crash the PCA Aug event at Road Atlanta. I hope to have the 1200's in place and tuned by then, but if not, I'll turn the boost down (safely) to 12 and do the mods afterwards.

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