Drifting At The Honda Grand Prix Of St. Petersburg ! ( March 31 - April 2)

[Scott]

Oh snap drifting is on the schedule ! :-o Now you guys must go.


If you have never been and even if you do not follow Indy it is a must see, especially since it is in our own backyard.



Post up if you are going.

Here is all of the information.

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LINK TO HOMEPAGE (http://www.gpstpete.com/)



TICKET INFORMATION (http://www.gpstpete.com/tickets.cfm)


Schedule:



Thursday - March 30

Track Closed to Public
12:30 noon - 5:30 pm - 2-Seater and Pace Car Rides




"Green Flag" Friday - March 31



8:00 am Gates Open
8:30 SCCA Practice 8:30 - 10:00
10:20 IndyCar Series Practice (ALL CARS) 10:20 - 12:20
12:20 pm Klein Tools Air Show 12:20 - 12:50
12:55 Indy Pro Series Practice 12:55 - 1:40
2:00 IndyCar Series Practice Group 1 2:00 - 2:30
2:40 IndyCar Series Practice Group 2 2:40 - 3:10
3:30 Indy Pro Series Practice 3:30 - 4:00
4:15 Drifting Display 4:15 - 4:30
4:45 SCCA Practice 4:45 - 6:00
7:00 Garage Area Closed




Saturday - April 1



8:00 am Gates Open
8:30 Indy Pro Series Qualifications (Saturday Race) 8:30 - 9:00
9:15 IndyCar Series Practice Group 1 9:15 - 9:45
9:55 IndyCar Series Practice Group 2 9:55 - 10:25
10:40 Indy Pro Series Qualifications (Sunday Race) 10:40 - 11:25
11:00 SCCA Autograph Session - SCCA Paddock
11:30 Drifting Display 11:30 - 11:45
11:45 Klein Tools Air Show 11:45 - 12:15
12:15 pm SCCA Qualifications 12:15 - 1:30
1:45 IndyCar Series Qualifying 1:45 - 3:15 **
3:15 Indy Pro Series Pre-Race Festivities
3:30 INDY PRO SERIES Race - 40 Laps
4:45 SCCA SPEED WORLD CHALLENGE GT Race
5:00 IndyCar Series Autograph Session (ALL DRIVERS!) - BrightHouse Networks SpeedZone
7:00 Garage Area Closed

** At the conclusion of single-lap qualifying, the Firestone Fast Six features the fastest six cars in a 10-minute, European-style shootout to determine the order of the first three rows in Sunday's Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.




Sunday - April 2



8:00 am Gates Open
8:30 Indy Pro Series Warm-Up 8:30 - 8:40
9:15 Drifting Display 9:15 - 9:45
10:15 IndyCar Series Warm-Up 10:15 - 10:45
11:00 Indy Pro Series Pre-Race Festivities
11:30 INDY PRO SERIES Race - 40 Laps
12:45 pm SCCA SPEED WORLD CHALLENGE TOURING Race
2:00 Klein Tools Air Show 2:00 - 2:45
3:00 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Pre-Race Show
3:45 2006 HONDA GRAND PRIX OF ST. PETERSBURG - IndyCar Series (Live on ESPN)
6:30 XM Satellite Radio presents Hoobastank, Live in Concert - Honda Plaza


* Schedule is Subject to Change

[91silvia]

i'll be there friday and saturday but i didnt know they were gunna have that. when was that added? or was it planned the whole time?
best sounding car of gran prix last year was the turbo SCCA volvo that was blue on one side and silver on the other!!!!!!!!! all the other cars sounded the same

[NismoZ]

i'll def be there this year. prolly sunday

[Kung Fu Grip]

I've been the last two year's it's Fun as hell..I can't wait to go to this one.

Last year even tho I don't really like them BUT IT WAS FREEE Good Charlotte played after everything..there was a small crowed soo there didn't seem like they were into playing lol..one guy was just siting there Chugging down beer's while he played the guitar..but other then that it was like a private concert how small the crowed was..

[shift-lock]

Yea its just a demo guys. Blake Fuller contacted me today about it. I believe they are still looking for awesome drivers for the demo.

[Kung Fu Grip]

It MIght Be called a Airplane. :dunno:
inless they Have People not from the FD ?

[aphxero]

They Should Get Bill

[RussianKid]

we should get a boat and watch it from water ??

[Scott]

Lets try this again.

Random assholishness / bashing will get you a one week ban from this forum.

Thanks

[Jordan T]

im there

[box240mod]

going sunday for sure, sat maybe

[Alchemist XL]

do you need a cage for the demo?? hmm.. sounds interesting

[mranlet]

do you need a cage for the demo?? hmm.. sounds interesting
I'd imagine that the drifters have already been selected. it's not like they're gonna be like "hey, anyone want to drive in the drifting exhibition?"

Is it ok to hate on Hoobastank, Gene Simmons and Danica Patrick?

[Anthony Macaluso]

I'd imagine that the drifters have already been selected. it's not like they're gonna be like "hey, anyone want to drive in the drifting exhibition?"

You'd be surprised...

[mranlet]

You'd be surprised...
Oh?

[Anthony Macaluso]

Oh? R E O?











....Nabisco

[Scott]

Bump !

Pics from today coming later.

[Hoonta]

I'll be going on sunday, hopefully tomorrow as well.
Though I don't know which tickets to get, do you know what part of the track the drifting will take place?

[Pineapple]

I'll be going on sunday, hopefully tomorrow as well.
Though I don't know which tickets to get, do you know what part of the track the drifting will take place?
The whole track. I went today and it was awesome. It seemed like TerTech tore it up much better than the "pro" sponsored people there. It was really awesome though.

[paul kersey]

who was driving other than ter tech?

[hachibill]

so who all was in the demo?

[REY]

there was an s15, a mustang, s13, BMW, and 2qty 350z's.. I'll post pics up in an hour.


Here are my two cents..... WHERE WERE THE BAD ASSES?? DAMN, I WAS HOPING TO SEE DURDISHUS, HACHIBILL, AMONGST MANY OTHERS!!!!!

I hope tomorrow's and sunday's displays are more entertaining..

[hachibill]

sorry man, didn't mean to disappoint, but i'm in cali for round 1 of formula d. i wish i old have been there, it sounded like alot of fun.

[Pineapple]

It was the old driver of the Braile auto integra, which he now drives a white 350z, the two battleground drivers in their S14s , TerTech's BMW, Ernie Fixmer driving a red S13, an asian girl driving a red 350z, and a mustang. The cars all looked beautiful, but you could easily tell who was adapting quicker to the track.

[REY]

hahaha all day, all we smelled was rubber... after the drift even, there was a strong ass smell of BURNT OIL... especially when the BMW took a dump and started smoking like crazy..... THE ONLY ONE that drifted their ass off was the beamer tho....

[RoadRacer]

I didn't see the ter tech car start smoking, but the red 350 was smoking a lot when they first took to the track. IMO the white 350 and ter tech were kicking ass.

[Kung Fu Grip]

Is there going to be drifting every day of the event?

[Pineapple]

Is there going to be drifting every day of the event?
yes. Friday was just a "practice" day for them to get used to the track. Sunday they get a whole half of an hour to show it off.

[FreeThinker]

Drivers were Harri Tervola (BMW), Blake Fuller (White Z), Ernie Fixmer (Red 240sx), Verena Mei (Red Z), Dan Willie (Batlground 240sx) & Doug vanDenbrink (Red Mustang).

Tracy Shayhorn was also scheduled to drive with the other Batlground S14, but after Dans car broke on Friday, she loaned her car to him and on Sat, the organizer decided that since she had not taken part in the Friday practice, she couldn't do the Sat/Sun demos.

Verena's car burning some oil/water I think was from either rings or turbo, but apparently the Nismo guys who built the car say its fine.


The BMW didn't break on Friday, the oil was just because our catch tank filled up and overflowed into our exhaust evac system. We showed up running on 5 cylinders though and I would say did a hell of a job regardless.

The track was pretty narrow in some parts and the walls were definitely intimidating to some of the drivers.

Harri was the only driver who was really going balls-to-the-wall errr bumper-to-the-wall, he brushed the wall on entry 3 or 4 times and the corner workers were going wild for it.

Blake did really awesome as well and really just went for it after getting into the tire wall on saturday.

Verena did well but wasn't super aggressive. She managed to catch the tire wall twice today (sunday). Once she slid backwards into it and another time the left rear I think.

Ernie rocked some hardcore manji down the some of the straightaways and tagged both rear corners pretty good on the S13. I think he did decent overall, but had quite a few spins. He also nearly took out a few other cars by doing donuts in some of the corners when other drivers were coming (most of the turns were nearly blind).

I didn't see a lot of dans runs but what I did see was some smooth clean drifting. Dan got the right front corner on a tire wall I think, but minimal damage, just lost the bumper pretty much, but Blake came into the turn and nailed the bumper and dented the right side on the Z.

I didn't see much of Doug either but he had some nice drifts and the car sounded awesome, rear-mount turbo 4.6. Doug definitely wasn't going all-out and was the only car that got away with zero damage.

The fans really really went crazy for the drifting and it's a shame we were scheduled so early on sunday, other wise there would have been an even bigger crowd that got to learn what it was. Saturdays track time was perfect and everyone who came back to our paddock area loved it. WDC even setup an autograph session for the drifters on saturday,

Overall this event was a HUGE step in the right direction for drifting, and it looks like the IRL got a lot of positive feedback from the fans and track workers too. Hopefully things will fall into place and there will be more IRL/drifting combo weekends this year.

As for our car, well the dead cylinder problem got worse over the weekend, and this morning the car finally lost all power on about 15min into the session and harri brought it in. Look like maybe a headgasket. Plans now are to make the car look nice and at the same time build a newer car, probably a '99 or 2000 3series.

To sum it up we all had a great weekend, blown car or not, and I know everyone who took part would like to extend huge thanks to WDC for putting this together and paying for everything throughout the weekend plus being the most professional people that I have had the pleasure of working with in the world of drifting.

-Sean

[buck19]

So I take it they know how to promote an event with out any shadyness? Hahaha

But this is awesome. I would like to one day step in on a demo weekend if it were ever possible.

[Ter-Tech]

AS SEAN SAID WE'VE YET TO BE TREATED THIS PROFESSIONALLY BY ANYBODY AS WDC DID TO US!!!!! ANYTHING THEY DO IN THE FUTURE WILL HAVE OUR 100% BACKING. WDC IS BACK IN FULL FORCE AND WILL BE BIG. THEY ARE ALL ABOUT THE DRIVERS AND GETTING SPONSORS FOR THE DRIVERS EXACT OPPOSITE FROM FORMULA D WHO ONLY WANT THEM FOR THEMSELFS.
To sum it up we all had a great weekend, blown car or not, and I know everyone who took part would like to extend huge thanks to WDC for putting this together and paying for everything throughout the weekend plus being the most professional people that I have had the pleasure of working with in the world of drifting.
sINCERELY


HARRI TERVOLA

[taka86fc]

i hate all of you lol