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Oct 11, 2023 | 10:12 AM

itsonlyairandfuel

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Anyone going to SEMA, and attending the Optima challenge event?

Oct 12, 2023 | 12:47 AM

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Unfotunately no, but would really like to go to the SEMA event some day.

Oct 12, 2023 | 10:23 AM

sshallen

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I'll be at SEMA, no idea what I'm doing each day yet.

Oct 12, 2023 | 10:45 AM

cmonkey713

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I will also beat SEMA on full access vendor pass, but no idea on day-to-day activity.

Oct 12, 2023 | 02:40 PM

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I'll be there again after going for over 20 years. It was very disappointing when GM and Ford quit there fine exhibits.

Oct 12, 2023 | 02:50 PM

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This will be one of the first years that I've missed the SEMA show in more than a decade, and after running the Optima Invitational from 2014-2020, it will be nice to not be committed to so much. Optima was a blast, but for me, it ran its course and just doesn't have the same luster as it used to. The level of competition, format and excitement surrounding the series has changed and that's what made us go a different direction. We still have lots of friends running, and we wish them luck out there, but we're not part of it anymore.