We're working on the schedule of events now. Also, for those of you that will be there on Friday, John Doonan of Mazdaspeed Motorsports and I will be interviewed by Speed TV, as the Mazda Corral will be featured this weekend!

So, get there early as I am sure that they'll get shots of the cars that will be parked in the corral.

 

Cool. I'll have to clean up the ride and hope the rain stays away.

 

For those attending the corral tomorrow, we will have parade laps tomorrow and Sunday.

11:40 on Saturday. Will need everyone waivered and ready to go by 11:15 – will line up by 11:30

11:30 on Sunday. Will need everyone waivered and ready to go by 11:20.


I would like everybody to be at the corral by 11:45AM for the drivers meeting tomorrow. Miss it and you are out, no exceptions!!!

Sunday drivers meeting @ 11:00AM at the corral. We'll have tomorrows and Sunday's full schedul up later, as we are finalizing it now.

 

Just wanted to say I had a great time at Mid Ohio this weekend. It was a great father's day present to take my father and father-in-law. They loved the racing, the RX-8s on the track and off, and going on the parade lap. Everyone we met was so nice! I plan to be back in the future!

 

This weekend was a bunch of fun. Thanks for all of the hard work you put in Marlon. Sorry I missed out on the BBQ with Freedom but I was fighting a pretty bad headache. Im off to Punta Cana in the morning but I will post the picts when I get back. I have just under 400.

 

Have a great trip John, and thanks for coming out! It takes a lot of work and team Ohio has stepped up once again, to make this corral one of the best ever!!!

 

Yep...many thanks Marlon for pulling off a great event. The access we had to the teams was outstanding, and the parade lap was a blast. Sadly, I was pretty worn out so decided not to come up on Sunday...which I now regret. Looking forward to next year!

Brian

 

I also had a good time. The racing was great. I was especially impressed with the red RX-8 driver in the Rolex GT race at the end of the day Saturday. That guy was passing a couple of daytona prototypes at times. I think he only finished 2 or 3 minutes behind them overall, and at some point was passed by two Porcshes. He drove the wheels off that thing though.

 

The porsche team was strong, but I'm stunned as to how he didn't place. He had it all over the Pontiac teams.

 

I dont know. I had to leave about halfway in. But for the half I watched he was dominating the race up and down and had a good lead. I'm thinking the driver change hurt them or they made a pit folley or a tire folley.

 

Great that you guys had a very successful corral & drive!!

Marlon: Congrats/Kudos!!!, It's a shame that I missed the closest event to home of the year, hope to meet up again before the 24 hours next year.

Mike

 

Thanks, Mike, Brian, et al......I appreciate all of the kind words, but you guys should give yourself a hand, as it is you that come out an support the events, that make it what it is.

Grand-Am and Mazdaspeed Motorsports were happy as hell, with the corral. I know Sylvain has a great time at his paddock and at the corral. Like I asid a 1,000 times before, The teams are bigger fans of us, than we are of them.

We are working on Daytona and Barber as our next events, should be a lot fun if we can get a large turn out. I am really proud that we had a larger corral than Porsche, VW and Mustang.....nothing looks better than a long line of Mazda's on a road course....


See you guys at a future event

 

I'm a bit late, as life has gotten in the way again. Just wanted to add my thanks for a great weekend. Marlon, I know you put a lot of effort into this and I'm glad it came off well. Please pass along our thanks to Sylvain for coming out to the corral and spending all that time with us.

I'm already looking forward to next year!

 

Some belated pictures from MidOhio:

 

Also recorded Speedsource talking to Mazda owners.

Part 1 of 3 (Mazda guy talking)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3YdUrwWOVs

Part 2 of 3 (Sylvain talking)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McXLLWUIVhk

Part 3 of 3 (Nick Ham talking)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzFTgeywbYE