Freaking AWESOME weekend! I got a few pics and some good video to share. Can't wait to pull it all together. Not time for my full write-up now but a special thanks to a few people that made my weekend EXCELLENT!

- FIRST and most important: phlash, without the RV, dude I couldn't have survied. Thanks for the ice pack and the air-conditioning. Also enjoyed the mini-C and the mini-phlash.
- 2nd and most important... just as much as phlash, L8 for helping me with my car when the heat beat me into submission. That was tremendous of you.
- III and just as important as phlash, TrackAddict and Lego for there in-car instruction.
- iv and just as important... Lego for his humor on and off the track
- #5 and still just as important... TorqueAholic for all the great conversations and being a great roomy. Sorry you didn't get to ride with me. I just didn't have it in me that after lunch on Sunday.
- 6th ... just as important to me, kurt bob for your help in defeating that impacted socket on the impact wrench that I thought I was going to have to replace.
- SEVEN ... just as important... Don & Donna & Kevin for the shelter, fan, conversation, tools and professionalism. You guys are a class act!
- 8th just as important as the others... Russ, for bringing that awesome dream machine of yours. Enjoyed the conversation.
- ninth: ... and just as important... Jim, always fun talking with you and nice to see you like to hank with us.
- X: and always on the most important list... Dano, dude... I was soooo sorry to hear the bad news of your not being able to track because of a rule change at the last min. Thanks for bringing the oil and we will see ya out again soon.

Installment #2 coming soon. I just don't have time for all the tracking stuff... oh was it sweet!

 

I just want to say HOT!!!!!!!!! Man it was HOT!!!!

Nice to see everyone, sorry I didn't hang out more but the AC in the RV was calling my name all day Sunday. I got home and I think my body was just tired from so much water in/out. Y'all seem to have a great group of guys and the more I meet the more I feel like welcome even though I don't see y'all but once or twice a year.

 

Glad all had a good time and all are safe. The heat was going to be too much for me
TA a new sent of a 245 hoosiers or Kumho what have ya---would drop youre lap times by a LOT! New tires are a BIG difference.
OD

 

Post pics if you have them- thanks!

Our group is mostly out of Georgia, but yes we will be at the Rolex - at least Sunday for many of us. http://garx8club.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1457

We buy our tix thru the links about half way down the page, and they come with paddock access and set us up with car club parking.

 

Fun with the gang HPDE 3/4: Session 2 Sunday

L8APEX leads off with me following and TrackAddict is behind me to start the session. I left the pit out sequence in because I wanted you to see who all was driving in front of us.

 

Here are the pics that I took from Sunday....


***click on image for gallery page***

 

Great shots! I especially like the one of Lego and L8 on the front straight. Good stuff! Thanks!

 

Ok…in between madness of the two weekends now....

I had a GR8 time!!! WOOHOO!!! STOKED!!! It was sooooo great seeing you all again. The official mileage for the lodge was a little less than 3 hours each way, 328 total miles at 8.87 miles per gallon (YIKES!). Good Gawd it was hot!!! Lil’ Phlash just hung right in there but has crashed early since we got back. Poor AC in the lodge did everything it could to try to cool things down. I spent some of last night repairing the trailer damage I did to the lodge, but it’ll be OK. The Cooper (AKA scream machine) turned out to be quite a hoot to drive. It can be thrown all over the damn place and complain not. I think my 500 tread wear tires were the only thing at the track louder than L8’s flame throwing exhaust. It got to the point after the first couple of sessions the corner workers just kinda ignored me rather than watching me thinking I was loosing it. I got a lot of comments from a couple of them.

Don, Donna, and Suzie (note the European spelling)-once again thanks for the use of your shade, the sharing of the power pole, the big *** floor fan, and of course your always welcome company and humor….even with Don giving me a hard time I enjoy having you guys around.

TA – Congrats on yet another trophy! Thanks for the ride along and for taking me for a ride.

L8 – A year (since I last rode with you) has made a HUGE difference! You Rock man! I was great watching you play chase with TA.

OMS – You have come back to the track pipe with a vengeance! I enjoyed watching you and L8 go back and forth. Can’t wait to see the new pics. Glad the lodge helped with the heat issues.

Lego – Oh great spin master…….sorry about the slicks….(welcome to my world of street tires). Thanks for the stickers!

Dano – Tough luv baby…..sooooo sorry you missed the track time. That really sucks the way it came about. We’ll be back on track soon enough.

KurtBob – Always a hoot to see the little car trailering in what seems like more and more stuff each time.

TA2 – WOW a weekend with no spins or off tracks……you da man, glad the new add on’s worked out for you. Congrats on yet another trophy for your shelf as well.

Russ – Glad you could join us on the track and for beer and brats. The car is awesome. I hope you can join us for our next event.

To all of you…thanks for bringing food, ice, drink and paper stuff for the weekend and for the contributions to the cause. I know I went through sooooo much water I can’t count. I think we should do Baber again in Oct with PBOC. Glad there was no drama that none of us can’t recover from. Sharing the weekend with all of you helped to deal with the heat. Thanks for all your humor, sharing and good times (once again). Thanks for helping me watch over Christain. Can’t wait till we get to do this again….hell….who knows what car I’ll bring next time…..thinkin’ bout renting a Malibu……..with run flats…….

 

Thanks!

L8Apex requested some original res shots, so I went ahead and moved the originals on the server and updated the gallery. Tips on navigation....Click on a thumbnail to take you to the medium-sized image/slide (1024x685px), hover over the bottom center of the image and and left click. That should open a new window w/ the original res shots (3872x2592px). Right-click and 'save image as'...then left click to close and return to the medium-sized slide.

I've got about 1/2 the pics I took from the weekend of the Lightning & Thunder races on the server. So if you want to see those, I can link you to them.

 

what program or application are you using to create your galleries. i like it. ever since "Gallery" let me down, I have been without a good image hosting solution.

thanks for the info on getting the pictures, much appreciated.

 

That is a nice gallery -
then I got to the last few picks.

So sorry RD, so sorry..

 

Thanks!

 

sok07... hope you don't mind... I cropped one of your images. SWEET!

I LOVE IT!

 

neh, I don't mind. :D I use jalbum w/ a slightly modified chameleon skin.

I stumbled on these on-track pics of the red rx7. I'll assume they are of SPIC.





The following are links to the galleries for the Lightning & Thunder races from Sunday. There are quite a bit of pics of the Roar Racing Rx8s within the Lightning race gallery.

NASARaces_Lightning_June082008
NASARaces_Thunder_June082008



I all afternoon Sunday for putting down the camera and missed capturing the 350z spin & recovery at the end of the back stretch. He was going at it w/ the s2000 and they attempted to split the yellow Datsun entering turn 11. The Z lost the back end, drifted across the grass narrowly missing the outer guard rail, cross the track just barely missed s2000 & datsun, and flirted w/ the edge of the gravel trap.

 

Yep, Nice Pics!!!

 

Whoa! What happened there?

 

Images

- Awards
- All Hands Meeting
- Party & Prizes
- Paddock
- Thunder Grid
- A Few Misc Track Sessions

 

I'm very sad I missed this event, especially now being located in B'ham, AL. I've been itching to get back on the track! It doesn't seem like Barber will have any more events this summer, but are there other tracks hosting events?

FS

 

Depends on how far you are willing to drive.
2 more events scheduled at Road Atlanta (Aug -Dec) which is probably 3 hours from you.
There is stuff in Savannah and Carolina's (6 hrs?)
And there are always small groups renting out TGPR which is only and hour from you.
I may try to help set up a TGPR day in Oct/Nov if it is avail.

 

There are some more DE's at Barbers just not with NASA. PBOC in Nov. is one, Chin should be there sometime, and there is probably a few more.

 

For non-NASA events, this is always a good url to have around.

http://trackschedule.com/sched.html

 

Thanks guys, I hope to make it to one or two July/August events. Unfortunately school starts up early August... I hope to be able to take a few laps with you guys

FS