Our BG Report
05-03-2010, 04:02 PM
#1
Melting Slicks
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Our BG Report
2010 Birthday Bash Report
Thursday, April 29th
We attended the Lunch and Seminar with members of the Corvette Race Team, Doug Fehan, Program Manager and Johnny O from car3. Discussion includes various team topics along with presentation on the NCM Motorsports Park
Doug talked a bit about the last race at Laguna Seca and the first two races this year including the incident at Sebring.
Johnny did the same as well as telling some very humorous stories about on and off the track
The lunch was very good and after the talks we got to be first in line for the Autograph Session
Later in the afternoon they had a Seminar: about the NEW NCM Motorsports Park with an update by Tom Blair.
Friday April 30th
The first Seminar was “Facts and Figures; the 2011 Corvette” with Harlan Charles, Corvette Product Manager, :Tadge Juechter, Corvette Chief Engineer, and Kirk Bennion, C6 Designer.
A lot of new internal, braking, and handling info. As well as the new Carbon Fiber Vette.
After that we went outside for the “Walk-Around of the new 2011 Corvette”.
With: Tadge Juechter, Corvette Chief Engineer, Kirk Bennion, C6 Designer and Harlan Charles, Corvette Product Manager
And got to see the new 2011 Corvettes really up close
Saturday May1st
The first seminar was on the “1960 Corvette Le Mans Race Car” by Lance Miller, of Corvettes at Carlisle. His father Chip owned the car and his dream was to take the Corvvette and Driver back to Le Mans for the 50th Anniversary. In included the story of the search, restoration and return to Le Mans of the 1960 Corvette class winner.
http://www.registryofcorvetteracecar...c-corvette.pdf
Because of the weather the outside agendas were changed and we got to have another talk by GM TEAM.. This time there was about 10 from GM there including a couple of the NEW Department Heads. Very, very GOOD.
In the Afternoon there was a seminar on “Getting to Know Your Corvette. You could learn the details and operations of your Corvette; everything in the owner’s manual that you never opened! {:~)
Harlan Charles, Tadge Juechter, Steve Grilli, Tom Hill
Located on esplanade outside of the NCM Conference Center
At 4:00pm there was the Unveiling of `03 Special C6. It is painted White with Blue stripes to commemorate the # 3 1960 Le Mans Corvette. It will be touring the Country to most Vette shows. You can BUY it now for a donation of $300,000 US to the NCM plus the cost of the Vette.
In the evening there was the C5/C6 Bash Margaritaville Banquet held in the Museum’s hall. The theme was a “Cheeseburger in Paradise” party with live entertainment and dancing. A lot of fun.
Thursday, April 29th
We attended the Lunch and Seminar with members of the Corvette Race Team, Doug Fehan, Program Manager and Johnny O from car3. Discussion includes various team topics along with presentation on the NCM Motorsports Park
Doug talked a bit about the last race at Laguna Seca and the first two races this year including the incident at Sebring.
Johnny did the same as well as telling some very humorous stories about on and off the track
The lunch was very good and after the talks we got to be first in line for the Autograph Session
Later in the afternoon they had a Seminar: about the NEW NCM Motorsports Park with an update by Tom Blair.
Friday April 30th
The first Seminar was “Facts and Figures; the 2011 Corvette” with Harlan Charles, Corvette Product Manager, :Tadge Juechter, Corvette Chief Engineer, and Kirk Bennion, C6 Designer.
A lot of new internal, braking, and handling info. As well as the new Carbon Fiber Vette.
After that we went outside for the “Walk-Around of the new 2011 Corvette”.
With: Tadge Juechter, Corvette Chief Engineer, Kirk Bennion, C6 Designer and Harlan Charles, Corvette Product Manager
And got to see the new 2011 Corvettes really up close
Saturday May1st
The first seminar was on the “1960 Corvette Le Mans Race Car” by Lance Miller, of Corvettes at Carlisle. His father Chip owned the car and his dream was to take the Corvvette and Driver back to Le Mans for the 50th Anniversary. In included the story of the search, restoration and return to Le Mans of the 1960 Corvette class winner.
http://www.registryofcorvetteracecar...c-corvette.pdf
Because of the weather the outside agendas were changed and we got to have another talk by GM TEAM.. This time there was about 10 from GM there including a couple of the NEW Department Heads. Very, very GOOD.
In the Afternoon there was a seminar on “Getting to Know Your Corvette. You could learn the details and operations of your Corvette; everything in the owner’s manual that you never opened! {:~)
Harlan Charles, Tadge Juechter, Steve Grilli, Tom Hill
Located on esplanade outside of the NCM Conference Center
At 4:00pm there was the Unveiling of `03 Special C6. It is painted White with Blue stripes to commemorate the # 3 1960 Le Mans Corvette. It will be touring the Country to most Vette shows. You can BUY it now for a donation of $300,000 US to the NCM plus the cost of the Vette.
In the evening there was the C5/C6 Bash Margaritaville Banquet held in the Museum’s hall. The theme was a “Cheeseburger in Paradise” party with live entertainment and dancing. A lot of fun.
05-03-2010, 08:15 PM
#4
Racer
There was also an excellent seminar on the new Motorsports Park with Tom Hill and Tom Wallace. You can buy a 1/4, 1/2 or full acre and have a share in the track for track time.
