moto
Ron
Hey, I just finished the third day at the event. It was like an easter egg hunt(theme for the event?) and I wanted to post some of the special things I found as there was nothing posted as a directory or schedule of events. Since there is one more day (half) tomorrow I will post some of my found surprises.
1. If you register with Ford and take a 1 minute survey ( requiring 2 separate lines) you get a wristband that entitles you to wait in another line and pick two of any of the new showroom cars(sorry no S550) and drive 1 lap on the inside roadcourse with the Miller Motorsport Instructor sitting right seat. I picked the C-Max and Mustang Convertable Base 6 Cyl and My wife did the Fusion and the Mustang. Then we got to get a right seat high speed lap in any of the Miller Motorsport Track cars. My wife went with the FR500 and I did the Fiesta ST (WOW!).
2. If you drive all the way around the side of the speedway, across from the outside road course then you could drive through the tunnel to the inside of the speedway and line up to get three highspeed hot laps on the Oval in your car.
3. The "Goodie Bags" were hidden behind all the displays in Garage 8 behind the Roush Tent.
The track day started out really slow. It was a pretty nice 2.36 mile roadcourse(back behind and outside the Speedway). It was nice and flowed really well. We had an 85 minute driver meeting
that went 25 minutes into the track going green time. Then it flowed from beginners first to advanced last, which is backwards from any event I have done. There were a few issues that interrupted the flow and we got 15 minutes of track time in the first 3 hours. The good thing was that after the lunch break things went smooth and we made it up with 4 20 minute sessions which turned out pretty good. Everyone seemed to be having much fun.
The only real downside was there was nowhere for spectators to hang out with vendors booths, etc and it wasn't advertised near the event entrance(or anywhere), so noone really knew there was an opportunity to go watch.
The big thing I was hoping for(and they didn't have) was an opportunity to get inside an S550 either to sit in or a quick ride. Kinda bummed that they couldn't hype up the new Mustangs at all!
1. If you register with Ford and take a 1 minute survey ( requiring 2 separate lines) you get a wristband that entitles you to wait in another line and pick two of any of the new showroom cars(sorry no S550) and drive 1 lap on the inside roadcourse with the Miller Motorsport Instructor sitting right seat. I picked the C-Max and Mustang Convertable Base 6 Cyl and My wife did the Fusion and the Mustang. Then we got to get a right seat high speed lap in any of the Miller Motorsport Track cars. My wife went with the FR500 and I did the Fiesta ST (WOW!).
2. If you drive all the way around the side of the speedway, across from the outside road course then you could drive through the tunnel to the inside of the speedway and line up to get three highspeed hot laps on the Oval in your car.
3. The "Goodie Bags" were hidden behind all the displays in Garage 8 behind the Roush Tent.
The track day started out really slow. It was a pretty nice 2.36 mile roadcourse(back behind and outside the Speedway). It was nice and flowed really well. We had an 85 minute driver meeting
that went 25 minutes into the track going green time. Then it flowed from beginners first to advanced last, which is backwards from any event I have done. There were a few issues that interrupted the flow and we got 15 minutes of track time in the first 3 hours. The good thing was that after the lunch break things went smooth and we made it up with 4 20 minute sessions which turned out pretty good. Everyone seemed to be having much fun.
The only real downside was there was nowhere for spectators to hang out with vendors booths, etc and it wasn't advertised near the event entrance(or anywhere), so noone really knew there was an opportunity to go watch.
The big thing I was hoping for(and they didn't have) was an opportunity to get inside an S550 either to sit in or a quick ride. Kinda bummed that they couldn't hype up the new Mustangs at all!