Revved to the Redline in 05

aug 19-21


The Midwest Rotary Rally at Road America

Anniversaries are special so join us as we celebrate 50 years of road racing
at Road America, one of the greatest road racing tracks in the world.

The Midwest Rotary Rally also has cause for celebration as 2005 marks our
fifth annual edition. We aim to make it the best, and suggest you mark MRR
on your calendar for Aug 19-21.

Rotary Camaraderie
amongst Road America’s 575 acres of rolling kettle
moraine during the best sportscar weekend at the track. The Road America
500 (miles!) will be decided on the 4 mile road racing course featuring sportscars from the 2005 Le Mans race and GT cars such as the new Corvette C6 R, and Aston Martin DBR9. Add to that the Star Mazda series, the Trans Am and the Speed World GT and Touring series…


Rotary Corral
New optimized location with partially shaded parking for your rotary. Sound
comfortably under 100 decibels may augment rotary camaraderie.

Rotary Rotary
We are proud to feature Mazda’s newest edition to the rotary family, the RX8 at this year’s event.

The MRR is very proud to welcome Cameron (Cam) and Candy Worth and their signature Pettit engineered supercharged RX8. Cam and Pettit Racing are considered by many to be the preeminent rotary tuning/engineering firm in the USA. Cam is currently building a tube frame RX8 GT racecar powered by Mazda’s famed 3 rotor powerplant and may bring the car to the event if it is completed by August. Cam and Candy have graciously consented to share some of their knowledge (could be anything from sideseal gap to building a supercharged rotary motor for Roger Penske’s launch) after dinner Saturday evening. I wouldn’t want to miss it.

Rotary Resort
Otherwise known as the Starlight Motel in scenic New Holstein, Wisconsin. (yes the town is named after our beloved Wisconsin cows). We have the entire resort, er motel. Nothing but rotaries will be welcome Aug 19-20. Friday night is a short walk to the local pizza/bar. Sat/Sunday morning a short walk to the local breakfast joint. Sounds like party material to me. And all located a scant 7 miles of twisty asphalt through the scenic Kettle Moraine woods to the track.

Of course the Saturday night dinner w Cam as speaker, Mazda pit tours, the annual Concours, swap meet, and Touring on the Track will continue as MRR features.

The Rotary Car Club of Chicago (C3), the RX Club of Wisconsin and the Northstar Rotary Rockets extend a warm invite to all rotary enthusiasts to join the celebration.

links:

schedule of events http://www.rxclubofwi.org/rally/2005schedule.htm

Road America if you have never been to perhaps America's greatest road racing facility.... http://www.roadamerica.com/2005/track_maps.htm

Road America directions http://www.roadamerica.com/2005/track_directions.htm

Pettit Racing will graciously provide redeemable vouchers in addition to their presence... Corral is $15 per day, that'd be in addition to a Road America ticket.

spend some time w Cam and Candy and listen real well as there are few people in the world that know what they know... and do check out the Pettit Supercharged 6 piston braked RX8. there are open track sessions for your car on sat and sunday for a bargain $50. try to catch Cam's RX8 on the track.

don't miss the MRR this year.... oooops, almost forgot that Ryan Scott should be in attendance.

all super duper,

howard coleman

 

in addition to being able to park your rotary in the corral the $15 enters you in the Concours judging (actually not You but your car) if you wish... think prizes on Sat.

the corral Sunday kicker is a prize raffle which have been pretty nice in the past...

 

of course it might just be all about the O as in ON TRACK

don't forget on track, and not just any track... Road America might be the deal of the weekend... the track is open for you and your car both sat and sunday at a dirt cheap $50 per session.

 

Do we get to drive the road course?

 

Don't know why you guys haven't scheduled a stop at Siebken's, home of perhaps the best race bar in the country (second only to the Seneca Lodge at Watkins Glen). In downtown Elkhart Lake.

Here are a couple of images from this morning's ALMS practice where the Mazda finally made it on track after an engine change yesterday.

 

Thats awsome somday Ill be racing just like Schuamacher

 

nice shots Dick! I'll throw mine up on photobucket in a minute!

 

Some of the other stuff from the weekend is up, and will be going up, at http://www.pbase.com/atrltd/alms
Couple more of the LMP car are up there.

 

my fotos

http://photobucket.com/albums/b108/bluerenesis/

 

I'm bummed. I couldn't make it but there's always next year. Nice pics!

 

Its a total blast, tell your rotorheads to come too!

 

I'll try and get my photo's up in a day or two as well, that's my shinka on page 5 of your photo's BTW.

 

Cool! First Shinka I've ever seen in person.

 

Check this out! Anybody want to try and find the problem in this picture? Oh, and notice the RX Tuner logo

 

ooops!

 

Here are a few pics I took on Sunday. BTW, had a great time and met a lot of great RXers in the corral! Thank you all for accepting a nubee.

The first pic is at the grid for the "Tour". (mine is the 2nd VR '8 in line - I think there were at least 5 '8s in this session!) If any of you caught my earlier posts, I was a bit apprehensive of doing this, having never done it before, and not knowing what kind of "characters" I could "run into" with up to 200 cars on the track at the same time. However, this was just a blast!!!. Seeing that 90% of the cars there were of the "very expensive" type, my guess was that they were not there to "rub fenders" and that was the case. Everyone was very well behaved, at least on the part of the track I was on. Although the rule was "not over 60mph", there were couple of times on the straights when I looked down and the digital speedometer was passing 95. And the experience of downshifting to 2nd in most curves and accelerating out was fantastic! I don't think I ever got above 4th and did a lot less braking than the cars in front of me, and still managed to pass '70 vintage Porsches and Vettes as well as a few others on the straights. What a blast!

I would whole heartedly recommend it for those non-racers that might just like to try it.



The next pics are from the corral on Sunday. Great bunch of cars and club members. I even won a couple door prizes! (BTW, how do you get the radio *** off to put the RX-8 *** on?)

Thanks again! I will definitely do this again next year, and will probably expand my participation.

 

Glad to hear you had a good time glass! Just wait till you see the track with a helmet on!!

 

From our discussion Sunday, I might have to give that a try! But, how do you get a helmet on in there with the Sun roof!

Zoom, Zoom!

 

hey I fit in my car with a helmet and I'm 6'2". I really dont think that you will have any problems with the roof. How tall are you?

 

Is this the Porsche-punted oil cooler problem you mentioned to me in the media center?

 

Who needs the Osthoff.

 

I would have! I had to commute back to Milwaukee, I'm definitly making sure that I have reservations for next year!

 

Yeppers ... got lucky to catch that shot