suxs for you. I cant believe I am miss out on this but i kno they have one in LA, but im gonna miss hanging out with the BARotary.
Like the CPP rotary crew is busy for some reason or just disappear, im not sure should hang with so-cal rx7club. I miss nor-cal......

 

its always fun to be the first to beat down on the cars. been doing it like that every year.

 

i'll be there 2:30 saturday

 

i was there from 12-5.. drove like all the cars. the mazda6 is nice

 

i got there late. drove the rx8, then got a drive on the mazda3. the track for the mazda 3 was more fun, i made the wheels squeal. i would never buy an rx8 after that run. the mazdaspeed6 line had closed by the time i got there.

 

Yeah, but the Mazda3 was much slower for me. On the matched time course (with the 3, 6, MPV and CX-7) I actually nailed it with the best time in my hour in the Mazda 6 V6.

 

What time did you get? i got a 41.5...

 

40.005 The target was 40

 

Will they kick you off the course if you squeal the tires but not hit any cones? Last time at the GM drive event I bottomed out the suspension on their GTO and abused their tires. No cones hit but they told me to tone it down or leave.

 

no, the only course they would kick you off of was the target course for the CX-7, but they made that real clear ahead of time. Besides that on, the Target course, slow consistent speed and driving accuracy was the most important thing. I only hit one target the first time through, but hit 6 on the 2nd.

Everyone was squeeling tires on the Sports (Miata and RX-8) track and a few on the Mazdaspeed 6 track (where there was even a couple bozos turning off the VSC and spinning out taking rows of cones out).

 

the rx8 was amazing. thats all i have to say. when ever people talk down about it, its cuz they're only testing speed/power and not the handling. after driving the mazdaspeed 6 then driving the rx8. it was a world of difference.

 

yeah, but the clutch sucks... I want it another 10lbs heavier.

 

This event was fun as HELL! haha almost spun the RX-8, god i love maitas HAHA ok now that i've had too much fun here, i hope the dearlership doesn't kill me when i go back to work LOL

 

ROLF!

all the clutchs were mushy

 

Those clutches don't start out mushy, at least on the Speed6 course. We have gone through 26 clutches in 9 cities from people running in 3rd gear or just not knowing how to drive. Like pushing in the clutch in turns whenever they hit the brakes. We've lost two trannys from people downshifting back into first and not matching revs. The worst part is Mazda doesn't have any spare trannys for us so we started the weekend with only 7 Speed6's instead of 9.
Stu and I spend a lot of time setting up the courses so you only need to make one shift and your done. People just don't listen or they are used to other manufacturers events that don't even let you drive a stick and do everything they can to slow you down. We want people to get in and not quite drive it like you stole it, it shows off the cars to the people Mazda wants to sell to. People that like to have fun.

Anybody that was there and listened to Stu Hayner in the tent for very long(oh, the lines go way faster with all the cars running), I'm the guy that raises the bunnies that we put under the cones to deter people from hitting them. I guess people in San Fran hate bunnies after last weekend! Luckily they multiply like, well, rabbits, so I'll have more for LA this weekend.

 

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