Ehh, I hate you guys.... so... so very much.

No, just kidding, but I'm really REALLY jealous after reading all your posts! Glad to hear everyone had a great time! Wish I could have gone!


...that's all.

 

Make the trip next time!!!

 

"It will be the most fun you will have in your car with your clothes on"
Quote... Willis Maximus 2001

Will

 

 

Haha, well unfortunetly I live in AR, and the closest tracks to me are Heartland Park Topeka in Kansas (4.5 hours away) and a little track in the middle of no where about 30 minutes west of Tulsa, OK (3 hours away) called Hallett Raceway. I've been there 4-5 times, it's a challenging track, just not all that nice compared to the pics I've seen of VIR and other "big" ones. Plus the "crowd" at this VIR event seems to be much more fun from what I've experienced elsewhere. In other words, I'm often the only sole Integra, let alone Honda there. One time though, an NSX club from Texas showed up. Nothing like getting your *** handed to you by 6 NSXs!

I think Texas Motor Speedway and Heartland Park would be my best bet for a good track weekend with some import people showing up. In fact I think the gang from vtec.net had one at TMS there a few months back.

Hmmm, let's see here on mapquest how far to VIR shall I be?
Heh, it's only 1042.3 miles



[Modified by uncleben, 12:50 PM 12/10/2001]

 

I know there's no way you will believe us but... it's worth it. VIR *is* that good!

Jon
(who might fly 3000 miles to drive Laguna Seca next weekend)

 

yeah, we had two cats from stinking Mass this weekend each over 800 miles away!!

 

Hmmm, don't tempt me!!

Mapquest says 18.5 hours for the drive, but it's always over.
Anyone want to take a stab at this?

 

My experience with driving 1000 miles from Miami to Richmond says it can be done in 14-15 hours.

 

1100 miles from here (Durham, NC, 1 hour south of VIR) to Topeka took 18 hours.

 

If we get any more people at that track then we had this past weekend it's gonna get pretty crowded. Us beginers were crowding each other off the track as it was!

Seriously though, it was the most fun i have had in too long a time. I did some stupid stuff my first few runs on Saturday but by the end of the day on Sunday I was feeling pretty comfortable with the car and the track and my times had improved dramatically (although there is still a LOT of room for improvement).

I have nothing to compare it to but for a complete novice I think that VIR is a great place to learn. The track is very fast and challenging but fairly forgiving and an amazing ammount of fun. I learned more about driving this past weekend than I have in the past 10 years.

Thanks to everyone who I met, who encouraged me and talked Hondas with. I didn't get to meet all of you and i'm terrible with names so please forgive me if i see you again and can't remember who you are. I'm sure i will see many of you again in February.

BTW, I was the guy with the red 92 SI hatchback hybrid with DC plates. Actually I think i was the only one with DC tags at the event.

Mike Broderick

 

Yes, sorry for that, it was a comminication error with West Coast Speedtrial and East Coast, sorry about that, Sunday was much better! Next time there will only be 35 cars MAX on the track each session

So you were ONE of the 4 red hatchback civics!

 

Hope so..

 

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"So you were ONE of the 4 red hatchback civics!"

LOL, Yeah, real original. It seems like everyone and their crazy aunt has one. At least mine was cleaner, if not quite as fast, as the other ones. I plan to work on that second part.

Mike

 

i had the pretty red hatchback!!

 

Thats true, you had the nice red 6G. Of the 5G's though, you must admit mine looked the best

Mike

 

I recently went on an 8000-mile road trip. Seattle to SLC to connecticut (on i-80), up to Boston, back to CT, then out to Wisconsin (Road America), and back to Seattle.

We covered 841 miles in 12 hours on the way down to Salt Lake.

We covered like 700 miles in something like 16 hours on the way from CT to Toledo ohio, because we took a longer lunch stop, and had to deal with heavy rain for a lot of that leg. Weather plays an important role.

But if you can hold 80-90mph for extended periods, you'd be surprised how fast the miles roll by. I *highly* recommend you get a Valentine 1 or similar high-quality radar detector. It's likely to pay for itself in 2000 miles of 20+mph over the speed limit, not to mention what it does for your daily driving and future road trips. It's definitely worth it.

I think if the weather's good, it's reasonable to expect to be able to cover 1000 miles in 16 hours, especially if you've got someone in the car with you.

-Mike

 

Chad's red civic hatch:
Yeah - the with all the pretty racer's tape holding it together! Hmm, is that an insult to racer's tape? <jk>



[Modified by nc-rsx-s, 5:48 PM 12/10/2001]

 

Two driver... 1050 miles in 15 hours easy. Charlotte to Houston.

Will

 

one driver salem oregon to rio rico arizona
1475 miles

17 hours 21 minutes.....gas/food stops included in time!!!
car
1985 crx hf....
gas milage 48 mpg!!
average speed
85.5 mphs

1 ticket
on I-5 in LA going with flow of traffic at 96 mph's
ticket only 130 bucks!!

only time i stopped was for gas which included pee and food....cheveron is about every 350-400 miles on i-5

this was also done without beer (that's for the chrlote crew) and no drugs!


[Modified by chad, 11:15 PM 12/10/2001]

 

Chad's hatch was by FAR the cleanest hatch on the track......super clean, all JDM

 

Heh - I dunno if I could get anyone else I know to share the driving responsibility, they'd all want to bring their SI's and EG's too

 

hehe Me and who else?

Definately worth the Trip Mapquest listed it as a 14 hour drive took me about 12.5