In case you missed the meeting last week I still have some extra Grand Prix of Houston tickets (around 50 each day), which I will bring to the Houston Miata club meeting tonight. If you are planning on attending the event and want a ticket, stop on by the meet. The race weekend is filled with Mazdas, including the Renesis-powered Star Mazda Formula cars.

Info on it can be found here:
http://www.houstonmiataclub.com/index.php

 

Last chance for free tickets tonight! be there or be square

 

DANGIT! How come I didn't read this thread earlier. I'm organizing a trip down to Houston from Dallas with the North TX S2000 group and a few Miata owners are coming down as well. I actually own an 8 but my gf drives a S and we came last year, it was a blast.

I wish we could've picked up some free tickets, we each paid 105 for the 3 day pass with pit/paddock.

 

Thanks for the tickets monkey!!!!

 

Good to see the RX-8s well represented today...





What I love about that photo with the kids is that they could have walked up to a red Ferrari, but instead they walked up and had their picture taken with the 8.

 

I was there for qualifying and will be there the next 2 days.

 

Some of the pictures from yesterday:







The sharp, blind, left hander at the end of the second straight is scary as hell

 

Ill be there sunday around 12 until whenever. Got grandstant tickets at 3.

 

I took some great action shots last night, I will post a few when the shin dig is over.

 

At the StarMazda race today...





Holding a Commanding Lead!



Plenty of ALMS action too...



Maybe TOO MUCH action. Be careful where you sit!




The evening finished up with the SCCA Miata race (I refuse to call them by that other name). Still plenty of action there. I don't know why the crowd vaporizes after the LeMans action. They all missed out on seeing the weirder stuff like officials letting a smashed car race several laps dragging sparks around before Black Flagging it. And then there was the Miata that had its passenger door pop open and it continued racing around the turns! Don't see that every day.

 

I just posted some more GPoH pix. I looped them back to the Photo Gallery:

https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-multimedia-photo-gallery-6/houston-grand-prix-114715/

 

How did that window get broken?

 

It looks like the woman on the other side was staring so hard at the camera man on the other side that it just shattered precisely when he took the photo.

 

Ha. I don't think they ever found the debris that did that. That shack was dead off the straight at Turn1, so whatever it was, you can imagine that it had some serious velocity.

For a better visual impression, I was standing next to it when I shot this one:




Good thing it didn't get me!

 

I posted some pics here: www.houstonrx8club.com/events/2007/04GP07

 

Thanks Keith. Great seeing you and other club members there. This has to be the best weekend of the year in Houston.

 

Great pics everyone, here are a few I took over the weekend.

 

Here is my right place at the right time picture...

 

He climbs the fence every year, i'm still waiting for a back flip off of it.

 

Awesome timing Keith.

My pics are here:
https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...69#post1848569