Thanks to all the ITR and GSR fellas that came out to particpate in the TCRA festivities this weekend! We had one mishap w/ an ITR, but the driver is okay and the car's front end got wrinkled. I've been requested by the owner not to state who it is or post pix of it. (For those w/ pix, please do not post pix please )

Lets see if I can remember everyone:
yoshi234
ITR607
kiyaki
EPGONZALEZ
tjtruong
sleepyR
daebyuck
OutlawR
yellowp00p
typeg00ch
Gansan
vagoITR
underrated99si
ITR585
ITR1275
yeahLS
projectDC2
TGsCR (sp? soly forgot your exact handle )
Area51TypeR

forgive me if I forgot anybody


Mucho thanks to Mr and Mrs Gonzalez for bbq'ing lunch for us both days!!

Congratulations to yeahLS for his first win in his 'new' race car in the Under2.2L Challenge.

yshi - who is burnt out but will post up some pix as s00n as I sort thru couple hundred pix

 

Sounds like everyone had a lot of fun...wish I could have made it down for the day.
Austin

 

Very fun event. I'd like to thank EP's parents for cooking too. Great people. EP handed me my *** on a silver platter but that was all good, I asked for it. Hope everyone enjoyed themselves, I did for sure.

yb-b0t: takata wh33ls are cool.

 

yaya, thanks! I knew the 3dollar investment in the Takata wheels would pay off.

yshi - who requests that yell0wbird not hold up traffic next time - j/k mang!

 

knew i shulda stayed in da yella group. i g0t r0ck3d by da gr33n machin3s.

 

not forgiven.

 

im glad you guys liked the food...my parents are used to cooking for small armies, so a few honda doodes aint no thang....they actually enjoy hangin out and talking to all you characters...

yoshi-my mom says thanks for letting her hot lap your takata spec itr...

yb-your welcome...hehe...im glad you guys came out...it always fun when all your buddies are racing together..

yeahLS-congrats, you laid the smack down today...

area51-thanks for taking the time to school me...i did learn

robert-car is damn fast...now spend some time with your kids...lol

and the rest of you suxors....i had a blast....cant wait to see you at the streets of willow....

 

I wish I could have made it up to Buttonwillow. ITRs were represented at the Hawaii division autox as always though.

Reid - who'll be the first to admit it when he tries to turn a track day into a rally event

 

I didn't forget j00 mang!

yshi - who caught two ITRs (EP & ITR607) in their natural environment

 

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nice pic!!!

 

btw, nice meeting everyone that i met.

wish i coulda stayed till sunday. oh well.

(i was the one wearing the orange shorts)

cheers!!!

 

Yoshi forgot me too! Esteban, Luis, Yoshi, it was good to see you guys. Sorry I didn't really get to talk to everyone too much. After 45 hours of work and extreme stress for 3 days straight and 1 hour of sleep on Friday night, I was just dead tired, but happy to actually make it to the track. The engine was brand new, so I was just running it very slowly for break-in. By the end of the day, I was nearly up to full speed, and there were no problems, thankfully. Maybe now we can tune it.

I also want to thank Hytech, MMW Racing, Matt Nunez and Pierre Chan for their invaluable support in getting my new engine installed and running. I would be clueless without them.

 

nice pic any more?

 

Well i'm glad you guys had a lot of fun. Good seeing all of you again. It was almost like a mini expo, sure felt like it. I think i counted 15 R's on Sat.

Well the ride home was pretty depressing for me. Man i wanted to drive my car so bad but gotta save for a house. It sucked watching on the sidelines - all the fun you guys were having. Starting to think about not attending expo. Might feel even worse.

Hope all the track newbees enjoyed buttonwillow just as much as i did at expo. Easily one of the best weekends of my life. peace.

 

those mugen swaybars look like they keep eps car from body rolling a lot less than stock

 

Looks like you guys had lots of fun. I HAVE TO MAKE THE NEXT ONE WITH YOU GUYS.

 

who said that ff cant benefit from wings...

 

typer599 loves the moogen mooblie...

 

pics dammit!!!

 

pics pics pics!!!!

 

I had a great time at buttonwillow even though I didn't run I'm definitely doing the next event though

Got to rap with Yoshi, Ep and other's. Very impressed with EP's Mugenized ITR. Talk about Mugen poster boy, damn. All the guys were very hospitable and didn't seem to mind too much answering my barrage of questions.

Took about 180 pics, still going through them. Here are a few, as I go through them I post up the best ones.









I will see you guys at the next event without a doubt.


[Modified by TDCgs'R, 5:49 AM 4/1/2002]

 

nice pics dude

soo damn sexy...

 

That should be a shot for an Integra catalog.

 

Hey fellas, had a blast this weekend. Too bad I had to leave early today. Nice meeting you new people and I wish I could've ran with the rest of you guys in the green group. Big thanks to EP's parents for the food and Yosh, EP, Robbie for giving me a hand with the brakes.

-James

 

heads up? Buttonwillow raceway on fox 11 news tonite?

edit: opps..it was willow springs, not buttonwillow


[Modified by ITYP3R, 10:45 PM 3/31/2002]