I got back on Sunday night and had a blast at Sebring, even though it was my first time there.

Suprisingly it was a real hard and technical track and I hated it at first. But once I got use to it a little bit it was awesome.

Not only was tracking the car awesome, it ended up being a badass weekend due to the fact that there were some insanely badass cars at Sebring prepping for the Rolex cup this coming weekend at Daytona. We got to see some sick porche's, vipers, vettes, and bmw's, and tons of other vehicle's.

The only thing that sucked about the weekend was the weather on Sat night. Everyone there was a baller and either got a hotel room or was in an RV/Camper or something that was badass. So we (Henry and I) were the only true campers.

Well lucky for us we ended up having some where along the lines of 30-40 mph winds with rain. Unfortunately my tent couldn't handle this disaster and decided to collapse on me while literally minutes after I fell asleep. So I evacuated my tent during this monsoon saving my pillow and made it to my car where I spent the majority of the night. Then on top of that the weather gods decided it would be nice to drop the temps to the 40's around 3am. So I wake up freezing cold because I left all my warmer stuff at home.

Some how we survived the night and we had a nice shout out by the announcer giving us props on the loud speaker for making it through the night.

All in all it was a great experience seeing all these sweet cars. And if anyone has the opportunity to make it out to this event next year you definetly should. You'll be running around on track with some serious cars.

I was on track in the intermediate group with plenty of porchse's, vettes, bimmers, etc. Even though I got rolled repeadetly on the straights, I was able to hold my own for most of the turns which was badass and even recieving a few compliments when some realized my car was FWD with only 131whp.

Well on to the pics, here's what I took (Ill upade this thread later when I get my picture CD with the pro photographer's pics) and im sure Henry will post some pics (plus he has some track pics of me)


My LS - Still rocking the Expo numbers under the blue tape


Henry's R


And here's a few of the cars I was able to take pics of:














































































All packed up and ready to go home.



Ali

 

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Here are a few vids from Henry's camera:

Wind footage


Coming on to the front straight from the last turn


Coming off the back straight into the last turn


Pitting in


IIRC, this was starting a new session coming out of the pits


Front straight


IIRC, footage from a race they were having



Ali

 

Those mazda's look badass!
Looks like a fun event.

 

I wish I could go this weekend... got too much work to do, and no money to spend.

 

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Looks like a fun event.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Those mazdas were actually really nice on track.

Ali


Modified by PrinceAli132 at 12:50 PM 1/22/2008

 

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Those madass were actually really nice on track.

Ali</TD></TR></TABLE>
I wish I was there to see it.

What kind of suspension setup are you running btw?

 

good stuff, thanks for sharing

 

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I wish I was there to see it.

What kind of suspension setup are you running btw?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Koni Yellows and Ground Control Coilovers

I just upped the spring rates to 550f and 450r. Stock LS sways.

And I also went with Azenies on TE37's 205/50/15.

Previously, i was on OTS spring rates something along the lines of 380f and 250r and I used 205/50/15 Kuhmo Ecsta SPT.

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No prob dude

Ali

 

awesome pics

that black viper #8 i believe lives on the east coast. i could be mistaken his car with someone elses though

 

looks fun

 

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Could be, there were cars/people from all over the country.

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I wish I could go this weekend... got too much work to do, and no money to spend.</TD></TR></TABLE>

To Daytona?

I wouldn't mind going as well, but I rather go to the 12 hours of Sebring in March or do another event

Ali

 

sweet

 

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Koni Yellows and Ground Control Coilovers

I just upped the spring rates to 550f and 450r. Stock LS sways.

And I also went with Azenies on TE37's 205/50/15.

Previously, i was on OTS spring rates something along the lines of 380f and 250r and I used 205/50/15 Kuhmo Ecsta SPT.

No prob dude

Ali</TD></TR></TABLE>

Damn, that's a similar setup to my car, except I'm running rates of 450f/400r with a 24mm rear sway bar and I'm on the same tires. I haven't tracked yet but I can't wait till summer rolls around. Threads like this kill me.

 

Im not sure where you are located but you can try and make it out to the ITR Expo. Its at VIR again and it is an awesome track with tons of run off room as well. I also did my first event there last year.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread/2155183

Ali

 

Looks like a wide variety amount of cars

 

nice assortment of Porsches!

 

Looks very fun

 

Looks like fun

 

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https://honda-tech.com/zerothread/2155183

Ali</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'm actually located in Ontario, my car is still in pieces, but I can try and finish it up to make it to this event, I am still unsure. But the idea is really cool.

Sorry if this is a noob question, but aren't the ITR expo's for only ITRs? I own a civic sedan.

 

nice

 

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I'm actually located in Ontario, my car is still in pieces, but I can try and finish it up to make it to this event, I am still unsure. But the idea is really cool.

Sorry if this is a noob question, but aren't the ITR expo's for only ITRs? I own a civic sedan.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Its open to everyone.

And there are a few people who come from Canadia as well.

Ali

 

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Thanks

Ali

 

im like an hr away, feel like a dick for missing this.

 

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Come out next year.

Winterfest 2009! Supposedly this event gets bigger and bigger every year.

And the event was hosted with http://www.pbocflorida.com

Ali

 

wow looks like a crazy good time!