RK

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Marlon drives an orange Protege. I'm certain he doesn't mind.

It's early yet but I'd be surprised if 8s make up the majority of drivers. Anytime I go to any event it's hard to walk around without tripping over a Miata.

DeViLbOi

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This is not an 8 party...but a Mazda party. We just don't have too many non-8's here. Marlon...do you have an approximate number of people that have said they would go?

Astral

From what I understand, there's a ton of non-8s from other forums.

kersh4w

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shouldnt this be in the northeast forum? it is in PA....

Machiavelli

The location of the track didn't drive this so much as the interest and initiative of the people involved. The track selected ended up in PA for practical reasons, though you can practically hit BeaveRun with a stone from the Ohio border.

I don't know if there's been a post on the NE forum or not, but there's nothing stopping you from posting a link if you think there would be interest.

brucew

Is this the official sign up list, then? It sounds like similar sign up lists are in several other forums.

DeViLbOi

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This is the "I will be there" thread so Marlon can get some committed numbers together for Mazda and everyone else. Marlon stated that later there will be an official sign-up site in which you will actually have to pay. But there are a LOT of other forums that were invited so you could see it elseware.

msumlin

First off, Mazda speed Motorsports is behind the event, secondly there is dealer involvement behind the event, thirdly, this is NOT A TIMED EVENT, therefore it is not a race and the warranty cannot be voided!

OK, to the business at hand, I will be posting the information regarding the format of the event, as this event will run different than most. Once I have the format, I will explain why Mazdaspeed Motorsports do what they do. I can tell you it involves, video, classroom and a lot of lead and follow fo rthe novices.

This is not some free for all, where you get out on the track and run ***** to the wall, it is not a race, where we see who has the fastest car, etc. It is an event where you will learn the basic skills of driving a car on a road course at speed. You will discover your limitations, your cars limitations as well.

So stay tuned for more info and we will have this wrapped up by the end of the month.

Striker-7

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1. Matt Montes - 1991 Miata or 06 RX8
2. Jeff Renz - 2004 RX-8
3. Ryan Kelley - 2004 RX-8
4. Mark Domo - 2004 RX8
5. Tony Crino - 2004 RX8
6. Tom Cabral - 2007 RX8
7. Kyle Heller - 2005 RX-8
8. William Wolford - 2004 RX-8
9. Rick King - 2005 RX8
10. Danny Chao - 2004 RX-8
11. Phaedon Hain - 2005 RX-8
12. Bruce White - 1993 Miata
13. James Roberts - 2007 RX-8
14. Tim Bowser - 2004 RX-8

One more for the road, coming from Easton MD.

Yep, another RX-8, pretty much stock at this time (rescued recently from a BMW dealership ). This would be my first meet of any sort, but not the first Mazda.

Sig and details soon, 2004 LY 6MT Sport.

darnellm

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Mike Darnell - 2005 RX-8

WhiteSnowflake8

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Diego Villalpando 2005 Rx8 ..... It all depends if i can get the money saved up for the trip, and no snow on the ground.

onefatsurfer

Any updates on this?

msumlin

Sorry guys, but we could not pull this one off, as we needed addidional sponsorship for the event. We were way short on funding, needed an additional $10,000 to make this affordable for the majority of Mazda owners. the track rental is $5,200 per day, which does not include insurance and the workers, medical, wreckers etc.

We could not get a local dealer to step up and no additional sponsors to sign on woth us as well, as most of their budgets for 2008 have been allocated for other events and for race teams.

We are looking to do this for next year and I am going to take the lead on this for myself and not use MOCA's formula for the event, as MAzda wanted to use their formula to run the event.

Again, sorry that we didn't get this done and even if we got half of the $10,000, the cost would have been $350 for one day and $325 for two days.

Again, I will be working on an event for next year, so if anyone wants to assist me, let me know

onefatsurfer

poop.

Astral

Oh well! Marlon, thanks for all the efforts in trying to put this together! Looking forward to next year! (and I'll probably see you early November)

wankelbolt

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Very sorry it didn't work out.

However, if you want to go for it next year, get in touch with Dave at MazdaDriverS.com. He runs several track events every year including an occasional Mazda car show, and is a huge Mazda fan with a couple of his own RX-7's. If anybody can help you make it happen, he can.

- Bill