• Got the Contributing Memberships stuff finally worked out and made up a thread as a sort of "How-To" to help people figure out how to participate. So if you need help figuring it out, here's the thread you need to take a look at -> http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3581 Thank you, everyone! Rich Z.

Heads Up Standing 1/2 Mile Airstrip Event April 21, 2012!!

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Carrabelle Speed Festival March 24th, 2012!!

WannaGOFAST.com is proud to present our first event of 2012 at the Carrabelle-Thompson airport in Carrabelle, FL. The Carrabelle Speed Festival is well.....all about SPEED! Test your vehicle and driving skills on an open runway. We will be doing standing HALF MILE races all day long!! The best part is that we are allowing head to head competition instead of solo runs like other airstrip events. The theme will be classic grudge match style racing from a roll or a dig! Hit speeds you only dreamed about on a ¼ mile track in a fun and safe environment!

Come join us for what is sure to be an exciting day of speed and entertainment! We will have a live DJ spinning tracks all day long and food provided from the Pit Stop Grill!

Our 3 sponsors for the event are TopSpeed Motorsports of Atlanta, GA, Unique Audio of Destin, FL and TDC Performance of Mobile, AL!

TopSpeed Motorsports (http://www.topspeedtuned.com) is one of the premier tuning and performance shops in the nation! Their Nissan GT-R just recently won the One Lap of America this past May! They are now officially the 2010 and 2011 back to back One Lap of America Champions! They will be bringing a couple of their vehicles cars to take down the runway. One of them being their 2010 One Lap of America winning Porsche 911 GT2 race car!!

Unique Audio of Destin (http://www.uniquedestin.com) is a one of a kind customization center for your car or truck! They specialize in audio, security, window tinting and custom wheels and tires. If you can dream it they can create it for you!

TDC Performance (http://www.tdcperformance.net) is the only auto performance enhancement center in Mobile, AL. They specialize in dyno tuning and have EFI Certified Tuners to take care of all your specialized tuning needs. TDC's main focus is building drag cars for a wide variety of vehicle manufacturers to include Nissan, Mitsubishi, and Honda. They will also be bringing a couple of their shop cars to take down the runway!!

*Check out our website (http://www.wannagofast.com) to register. Be sure to read all of the forms and have your tech sheet filled out prior to entering the gate!

*Driver's you must register online by March 19th, 2012 at our website http://www.wannagofast.com

*For places to stay in the area click the link that says things to do and places to stay in Carrabelle (or visit www.carrabelle.org). If you need a hotel it is recommended that you book it now to make sure there’s availability!

*If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to call or email us.

Email: info@wannagofast.com
Contact: 850.585.5168

Take care and I hope to see all of you at the event!

Video from our July 30th, 2011 event!!



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wannagofast said:
Event has been postponed to April 21st, 2012 due to RAIN!! See everyone in 30 days!!
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I've been watching the radar and I'm not sure we're even going to get anything from that front moving through. Seems to have broken apart. The local Corvette club has a show at Champion Chevrolet on Saturday as well, so if the rain holds off, I'll likely be going there.
 
Wish we could predict the future.........this morning and still now all forecasts say 60% chance of rain. Couldn't take that chance!
 
wannagofast said:
Wish we could predict the future.........this morning and still now all forecasts say 60% chance of rain. Couldn't take that chance!
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Yeah, I hear that! The weather forecasts have been pretty much useless beyond 4 hours into the future lately. I'm going to get up tomorrow morning, take a look at the weather radar, and either get ready to go to the show or go back to bed, depending on what I see on the screen. But you certainly can't play it that loose with all the people counting on a nice day at your event. Hopefully April will be better. Probably way too soon for me to even think about taking the C5Z out there even if it gets done in time. I'm just not going to be able to trust it to not kaboom on me for a while.
 
Connie and I drove through Carrabelle today, so we decided to find the airport there in case we decide to run out to this event. It's actually southwest of the town, on the other side of the bridge, but not at all hard to find.

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Hopefully the weather forecast will be better for next Saturday.
 
Man, you guys just can't seem to catch a break. Weather forecast is calling for a 40 percent chance of rain on Saturday. The wife and I were planning on running out there as spectators.

Are you going to run with it, or reschedule?
 
Aargh... Now the national weather service has a severe thunderstorm watch out for Saturday. Rats. I was planning on getting some video of those cars running flat out.
 
Well, they are calling for PM thunderstorms now, so maybe if we get there early and leave before the bad weather shows up it will be OK. :shrug01:
 
Well, so much for the forecast of "PM showers". Woke up this morning and could hear thunder off on the distance. Cranked up the PC and took a look at the radar image. Well, looks like there is rain moving through Carrabelle right now. Then a short break, and LOTS of more rain coming up from the south.

Guess Connie and I will be staying home today.... :(
 
Rich..do you know if they were able to pull this event off? I wanted to go but had a fund-raiser for St Jude to attend. If they had to reschedule I might be interested. The web site does not give any info as to how it went.
 
No, I haven't heard a word about it. But based on what I saw on the radar, it rained in Carrabelle pretty much most of the day yesterday. So I really doubt many people would have been willing to run their cars flat out on a wet runway.
 
Rich Z said:
No, I haven't heard a word about it. But based on what I saw on the radar, it rained in Carrabelle pretty much most of the day yesterday. So I really doubt many people would have been willing to run their cars flat out on a wet runway.
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Thanks..I know they have an event set for sometime in October. Don't know if this one will get rescheduled again.
 
zzzona said:
Thanks..I know they have an event set for sometime in October. Don't know if this one will get rescheduled again.
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I would think that it would. I believe people paid to participate in the event, so I'm sure the promoter would want to make sure they get their money's worth. I don't know what sort of arrangement they make with the airport itself, though. If they have to pay for access to the airport regardless of the weather and whether or not the event takes place, then I would imagine this could be getting quite expensive for them already having to pay for two days that got screwed up because of the weather. I would imagine trying to promote events of this nature and being at the whim of the weather of the moment could be quite a pain in the butt.
 
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