There isn't anything real close to Bluegrass, but just about 20-25min north in Florence, Ky there are all the Major Choice hotels to choose from. Just go to expedia and use Florence as your City and it will give you all to choose from.

Bluegrass doesn't have alot of businesses around it to support alot of tourists, there is one Gas Station off of the I-71 Exit and there isn't another business for about 7-10 miles into Warsaw.

Hey Memphisrains82, I plan to attend the June 6-7, and June 19th events, so give me a PM when it gets closer.

 

Thanks for the hotel info. Dan. Look forward to seeing you at the track.

Brent

 

For all of you Southeast guys, the Music City Mustang Club Track Weekend is less than 2 weeks away(May 22-23) at Nashville Super Speedway and I believe there are still some spots available. http://www.musiccitymustangclub.org/

Cost is only $135 a day, which is about is cheap as they come. Hope to see some of you guys there.

 

Nice to see a couple of RX7's out at the event this past weekend.

May Summit Point was SOLD OUT and a great event!

Registration is open for the next couple of events.

 

Had a blast at NSS this weekend. I was the only 7 there, but there were a couple of 8's. Plenty of nice cars though. Here are a few pictures:








Barber next Saturday and Sunday, and Road Atlanta on Monday Should be finishing up the silver car this week and have it there.

Brent

 

Great to see that 7500 paying dividends

King James will take em to the promise land

 

haha... yep, my $7500 car of doom is in for 3 days of abuse this weekend. I just got to Barber earlier today and will be doing the NASA event with them Saturday and Sunday, and then I'm shooting across to Road Atlanta to do Chin Events on Monday. The Army is promoting me to promoting me to Captain on Monday so I thought I'd squander a little extra money at the track this weekend.

I've already seen a few 7's floating around Barber.

 

Congrats on the promotion

I can't wait zoom zoom around barber one of these days.

 

My post from Saturday Night:
Bottom line up front... a bad day at the track is still better than a good day in Afghanistan

Well guys, not a great day at the track. I kissed the wall and here is the end result:


Good news though is that no one was hurt and it didn't damage my RZ wheel. The only thing that was hurt was my pride. I have a video of it that I will post later on once I figure out how to cut it down to under 10 minutes. I was on the last turn tracking out maintaining throttle and it broke loose. I went back and forth a few times before I did a 180 and hit the wall.

I pitted to have the tech guy check out the damage and was given the green light to go back out and finish the session, which I did I was extremely relieved that the damage was as minimal as it is.

However, after the next session I pull back in to my spot, put my drain pan under the car(as a precautionary measure) and start talking. I notice a coolant smell a few minutes later and pull the pan out.... sure enough it's leaked around 20-30oz of coolant. I take the intake and intercooler off and notice some black material on my radiator fans. I trace the problem to the hose that connects from the bottom of the AST to the bottom of the radiator has come loose(I'm assuming the radiator was jarred when I hit the wall) and hit the fan until the fan eventually wore a hole in the hose. Phil is pretty sure he has a spare and I'm going to go pick it up in a couple of hours. If he doesn't, I'll just splice a metal hose in the line. I'm hoping to avoid that as it would introduce 2 more potential failure points, but would work for the time being.

Chris was running well today and I believe came in 8th overall in TT and 3rd in TTA. Here are a few more pictures from today.



Phil's MB FD:


I'll have the hose replaced here in a couple of hours and be back at the track bright and early first thing in the morning.

 

Post from Sunday Night:
Had a great time at Barber today. It was HOT!!!! Around 90 degrees. I'll post some more pictures later on, but here are few that I stole from Phil's facebook. I'd love to have some larger/higher resolution copies of these Phil when you have a chance and if it's not too much trouble.




I'm sitting at the hotel right now a few miles from Road Atlanta. Looks like it's going to be a good turn out of rotary's at the Chin Event tomorrow. Don and Kevin Clifford, who were also at Barber this weekend, will be there as well as the Black and Red FD track guys. I can't remember their name but I met them at VIR. I think one of their names is Nate. I believe they'll be a few more as well. More pictures and updates in a day or two. Once I get home and get everything situated, strip down an engine and take it to David Jerome... I'll post a bunch of pictures. Time to rack out.

Phil's pictures that include a snapshot sequence of my run in with the wall:

 

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Here are a few more from the weekend:
Barber:









Our Neighbors in the Paddock. Really nice people from Brentwood:

Want to a Porsche?



Rest of the pictures can be seen in my Barber Album here: http://s211.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/BarberMay09/

 

Road Atlanta:
Welcome to Road Atlanta:

 

Wow, you get to a lot of tracks. I've always wanted to run Road Atlanta and Barber but I just can't bring myself to sit in a POS FD any longer than the 4.5 hours to VIR, not to mention the possibility of needing a tow home. I need to get a tow vehicle.

How fast did you hit the wall? And what's with all those Porsches?

 

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Good aim. That could have been much worse.

Nice machinery out there.

 

Not the best quality, but I'm just using my digital camera until I can find my charger for my digital video camera.

Hitting the wall at Barber:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qYuguMOWFQ

Here's a video from Road Atlanta on Monday, for some reason there is a 10 second delay once the video starts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YnCY8HILs4

 

WOW, great pics!! Barber looks like one hell of a fun place to drive. I'm suprises on what little damage was done to your Rx-7 with the speed you carried into the wall. I look forward to running with you at Bluegrass if it ever gets opened.

good stuff!

dan

 

Thanks Dan. Barber was a blast. It is such a nice clean track/compound. I really need to check out the museum one of these days. I was very relieved that the damage was minimal and all cosmetic. It could of ended my weekend very early!

Hoping to run Bluegrass as well!! I was suppose to run the NASA event there last weekend and it was canceled. I also just got word that the 10/10th's event for June 19 was canceled as well. Really hope it gets finished at some point this summer/fall. You heard any updates lately other than the website?

 

I'll be at VIR this weekend doing the Mazda driver's event. Hope to see some of you there.

If any of you southeast guys are considering doing the Nashville event on June 20 but on by Autosports, I would go ahead and sign up. They are hurting on participants currently and they might have to cancel if they don't get enough. Would really like to see this happen since there aren't really that many track days at the Nashville Super Speedway.

 

See you this weekend. I'll be the BB FD with the 99 plateless front bumper #64.

 

Sounds good. I *should* be in the SSM FD with the 99spec plateless bumper #14. If not, I'll be in the MB one pictured above.

 

At VIR having a blast. Looks like the weather is coming in though so it might be a wet afternoon. Lots of 7's in the mix. Man it feels great to finally be back in the silver car.

 

Get that wing on and let me know how she flys

 

You mean this one?


Dude!!! I can't believe the difference it makes!! Money well spent

I'm beat. Just got back from a 10 hour drive home. Great weekend, car did absolutely fantastic!! Here are a few pictures before I rack out for the night.

 

More pictures and a video or two to follow tomorrow.