...this weekend was a total blast! What a great track event and well organized. The folks who put this on really learned from last year and made huge improvements! This is a must attend folks, best time we have had all year.

A few photos to document our adventure...


Stopped at a BBQ joint on the way down from Cincinnati, finger lickin good.



The party at the museum Friday night was well attended



The museum had many iconic artifacts such as this one


On my way to the garage area to wait for the first run


Drivers meeting to go over the do's and don'ts


The event was well attended


Lining up the cars went like clockwork, the volunteers did an exellent job!


Patriotism was abound for the July fourth weekend



Staging was smooth and organized








The pace car was moving right along between 80~100mph depending on conditions


Both runs involved high speeds(140+ mph)



Video of front stretch pass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu9U2RUOgdA

Speed shows on HUD in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj3kfx-7ofg











Cooling down after running the track



This is what all day in the heat does to you


Stopped in Nashville on the way back and partied with some great friends we met in Talladega...honkytonkin all night long!




This intersection in Nashville seemed like an odd combination of street names



We will be there again next year 4 sure!
Photos by my lovely wife, Michelle

 

Awesome! I would love to do that sometime. Thanks for the photos.

 

Great shots and looks like fun

Chuck

 

Great Shots !! It was a pleasure to share part of the cup garage with you guys..Although my wife would've still took you up on the A/C offer... Thats her relaxing in the background...

 

Looks like you guys had a good time.
I wish I could of joined the group.
Our club the Syracuse Corvette Club goes to Watkins Glen each year to run laps.

 

I have run Talledega in a Busch car and Nascar Truck. How fast were you allowed to go?!

 

Thanks for sharing looks like a blast....

 

There was no speed limit given, we were instructed not to pass anybody. High speeds could be reached by carefully working together as a group.

I hit 140+mph several times and I heard of folks hitting as high as 160mph!

This video shows the HUD in the windshield hitting 143mph at one point:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj3kfx-7ofg

 

We enjoyed the photo's you posted as well and hope to see you again sometime soon.

We'll be at the National Corvette Homecoming in Bowling Green in a few weeks and another track event in Atlanta in the fall.

 

Wow,,,that looked like just too much fun!!! Was the wife co-piloting or were you running solo!!Got to take my old shark around Gateway Int. a couple times,,but that track is about 1/2 the size of that one!! Just flat out COOL!!!

 

That just looks like a blast!

 

Solo, wife was my official photographer for the day. She rode with me on the first session last year and just couldn't take 120mph in turn 2!

 

It was a great day! Well organized event and the weather was perfect. In this pic I was probably running somewhere around 105 or so. Most of turns were 95+ going in and 110+ coming out. I topped out at 126 coming out of turn 4 during the first session.

I was right behind the Pace car in both sessions so I caught him pretty quick in the straights and never had the opportunity to reach the 140+ mark. I ran at those speeds in both 5 lap sessions. The turns are steep at 16 to 33 degrees and the feeling going around them at 100mph just has to be experienced. Can't wait until next year! I remember seeing your C5 in the garage.

 

Glad we were able to get a good shot of you on the banking



I coordinated with the others in the group to go into the turns slow and nail it 1/2 way through. This made reaching high speeds easy while keeping things relatively safe



I was in the middle of the pack both times which made our strategy tough for the lead and tail vehicles to detect



Yeah, those banked turns ruined the chances of my wife ever riding with me on a track after only one time last year!

 

Looks Like Awesome fun.

 

So where do you get info on this event? I would love to make it there next year!

 

Looks like it would be worth the drive

 

We learned about this event in a very obscure place...


...right here on the Corvette Forum in the "events" section!

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/sout...rspeedway.html



It was well worth our 1000 mile roundtrip

 

On a side note: what kind of camera/mount setup did you have for the on board shot. I like how you were able to get the HUD in there

 

Suction mount such as those found here:

http://www.filmtools.com/succupmoun.html