Rolex Sports Car Series @ Mid-Ohio
 

The Speedsource RX-8 guys and all the rest will be coming to Mid-Ohio June 21 for a 5 PM race. Last year we had a pretty good showing of RX-8 folks and saw a great race! Who's up for a repeat performance?

Columbus area folks, we can set a meeting point on the north end of town and caravan on up. The rest of you folks we can meet up there.

Come celebrate the first day of summer and cheer the Speedsource guys on to another win!

Details at http://www.grand-am.com/rolex/schedule/event.cfm?eid=14

See you there!

It's on like Donkey Kong! Count us in! #70 was soooo close at Laguna Seca this past weekend...

Count us in.

I'm going to try to make it down from the SW side of CLE. Sounds like fun.

are you guys parking in any certain spot at the track?

If we get enough, I'd like to think we could get an infield corral. Attendance at these things is usually very low, so maybe. I'll check into it and post back.

Sounds like fun!

Just wondering what goes on, Sunday . Is there some other race , because the one I've read about is Saturday. I might drive out there .

Thanks.........

Heres the link to the weekend schedule.
http://www.midohio.com/pdf/EMCO-Tuner%20Schedule.pdf

Thank you

Good news! I have confirmed with Mid-Ohio that they will set up an infield parking corral for us. No cost for parking. When you arrive, just follow the signs to infield parking and there will be a corral marked for RX8Club.com

I'd like to give them a semi-accurate count to ensure we have enough room, so please post up even if you're just thinking about coming.

I am planning on coming but with work...they call I have to respond. So no work call Brian will be happy guy at Mid Ohio.

Take care,

Brian

i will take a space.

Put me down as a possible. Pretty sure that weekend is free and it'd be nice to see some 8s.

I'll be there Jeff. Looking forward to seeing all the 8's in the field. Wonder if we'd have the opportunity to maybe say howdy to the Speedsource team? :)

Mickey-Ds at Polaris again?

We're in. Thanks for taking care of this Jeff.

Sounds like it's coming together!

Mickey-D's sounds good to me. I'll post in the Columbus thread to see if we can meet this coming weekend to finalize details.

For me, I'm thinking about a paddock pass. The cheapest way to do it is $30 for the weekend pass, which includes everything. Otherwise, it's $20 for the race on Saturday. These prices are online, before June 18. From experience, earlier is better, as they will mail the tickets to you so you don't have to go through will-call at the track.

Ok I'm in for sure on Saturday. Maybe Sunday as well. Johnnyspeed and I can try to get a few more of the Cleveland 8s down there when we meet up on the 6th.

Apparantly the Daytona prototypes will be there as well. My buddy knows an owner so I may be able to get close to a few of them. If the chance of seeing the speedsource wasn't reason enough to drop in that will be.

Yeah, that $30 ticket looks like the way to go...general admission for the entire weekend plus the free paddock pass. Gonna pick one of those up! Thanks for the heads up Jeff!

I too may attend. My 5 year old son has been asking about going back to mid-ohio this year. Last year was his first time there. I'm hoping he'll take up cars as a hobby!

I'm planning on being there.

Im in and it looks like ProChargerGT will be heading down as well with his Mustang.

Mazda Corral
 

My name is Marlon, I plan corral events for Mazdaspeed Motorsports Development, I am also one of the founders of Cleveland6club.com. I plan every Mazda corral from Sebring to Mid-Ohio.

A couple of my members have told me that you guys were having a corral @ Mid-Ohio? We were planning to have one at this event, but see that you have already started one. I have a few questions for the organizer?

1. Do you have an actual space picked out, if you do how many vehicles is it for?

2. Is Mazda USA or Mazdaspeed Motorsports supporting you guys?

3. Has anyone contacted the teams, Speed Source, Hyper Sport, Racers Edge, ROAR Racing?

I would like to join forces and offer the membership a great opportunity. I work very closely with all of the teams above and I work with them on settin gup personal tours of their paddocks, haulers, etc. We have meet and greets, photo ops, autograph sessions, where you do not have to stand in line with the public and wait.

Here are a couple of e mail from teams principals, etc

Hi Marlon,



No problem here. We would be happy to participate like we did at Lime Rock and we can come up with a few “giveaways”.



BTW, great job at Lime Rock and thanks for lunch! Next time I can, I’m going to bring my R1 for your corral J



Jon


Jon is the owner of Racers Edge and is looking forward to the event!!


Here's another:

Thanks Marlon.



Right now we are planning on getting the #60 up to the corral for a meet & greet and to let people sit in the car. It’s our brand new car that we are going to be finishing next week. Plan on us bringing it up after our Qualifying session on Saturday, sometime around 3 pm. It might be possible for us to get it over there after practice on Friday as well so that anyone who is there on Friday can be sure to get their chance to look at it and helping to cut down on any crowd on Saturday. Hopefully this time the steering wheel won’t get stolen out of the extra car.



We have also found a few shirts and hats that we can donate to your cause. I’m not sure what sizes for the shirts off the top of my head though, I will find out later.



Adam

Adam is the owner of ROAR Racing and will haveone of his cars on display at the corral. I have the same commitment from Hyper Sport and SpeedSource, too! Also, I am working with Jim Ryan of Koni-NA and we will have some special things taking place, hot laps in the G8's and more......

We are also holding a raffle for Autism Speaks, you will get a chance to win team shirts, hats, possible "gopher" for a day for the teams, where you can have special pit access and assist the guy.......win some Mazda apparel as well.

Here are some links to pics from Lime Rock....

http://www.cleveland6club.com/phpBB2...=951&start=320

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showt...hp?t=123695468

http://www.speedsourceinc.com/ check out the Lime Rock pics


If you guys woudl like to join forces and make this a very special event, please let me know..so I can let my contacts @ Mazdaspeed Motorsports know what is going on.

Thanks,
Marlon

I would highly recommend teaming up with Cleveland6club. C6C has great working relationships with Mazdaspeed Motorsports and with ALL the teams that race the RX-8 (Hypersort, SpeedSource, Racers Edge, etc) as evidenced by our recent successful Mazdaspeed Shu Go Corral at Lime Rock.

As a result of all the hard work of establishing and fostering these relationships through the years, we were able to provide our corral attendees "up close and personal" access to the cars, drivers, and teams.

Ooooo..... Can we touch the Speedsource 8? vb ;)

Lots of picks from Limerock in the pics forum and props on the first to Marlon's Cleveland6 group :

https://www.rx8club.com/ne-rx-8-forum-29/mazdaspeed-corral-limerock-may-23-26th-2008-grand-am-series-137046/

https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-multimedia-photo-gallery-6/mazda-13b-20b-rx-8s-%40-limerock-may-23-26-2008-pictures-146995/

I better have my freakn' clear corners by then. :)