SOY ESCUALA!!!

[Bad Luck]

have you heard about this yet?


February 17, 2006 will go down in history as Texas's FIRST ever road course drifting event at Grand Sport Speedway by Texas Slide and Houston240sx.com.

Where?
Grand Sport Speedway is a 1.7 Mile freshly renovated Road Course located near Hitchcock, Texas, and very close to Gulf Greyhound Park for those wishing to earn a license at the Formula Drift Qualifier on Feb the 18th at GGP. We will be using the Brittany Circuit, Overhead veiw of Grand Sport Speedway's Brittany Circuit can be seen by clicking here.

We will run the track one direction in the morning, and switch directions in the afternoon. We will be using run groups, which will run in 10 minute sessions, non stop from the moment the course goes hot until a 30 minute staff lunch break, until the end of the day or until our goal, everyone runs out of tires.

DIRECTIONS TO THE TRACK
From downtown Houston head south on I-45 towards Galveston. Exit to your west (right) on exit 15, continue strait across the light and take the next exit on your right onto state Rd 2004 that runs parallel to the dog track. Continue down 2004 for about 3 miles right through Hitchcock, Tx until you see four large concrete pillars on you left. The track is right beside these pillars. Turn left onto the small gravel road past blimpbase Rd and go a few hundred yards through the gate. You are now on the new site of Grand Sport Speedway.

Track Address is:
GrandSport Speedway
5402 Highway 6
Hitchcock, TX 77563

For a complete write up and inquiries about safety equipment required and tech requirements,
Please click here to see our Tech Rules and Policy.

Also please to help keep it a safe, friendly environment, Please stop by and check out our rules policy

REGISTRATION

Pre-Registration will be $75 per driver. Driver credentials will be issued the morning of the event. At the end of preregistration the day of the event, we will take anything excess from covering track rental/insurance, divide it by the number of entrants and offer to re-imburse all drivers who pre-registered anything we have left over.

Registration at the event will be a fixed fee of $75.


Please when registering include whether or not you will be driving in the Formula Drift Qualifier the day after, and a brief driving resume so we can properly class you in a run group. We will have at least three groups.

Pro Qualifier Practice
Regular Practice
Beginner/School.

Pro Qualifier Practice will be for the Pro level driver who will be fighting to attain a Formula Drift licence the next day at Gulf Greyhound.

Regular Practice will be for the driver who is not competing in that event, but just wants to kill some tires and improve his/her skill, and have fun.

If you are interested in attending the no charge extra school, Mike Peters, Texas's top ranked Drifter and Formula Drift #8 Points Finisher will be acting as Chief Instructor for a special "Beginner" run group, which will include several classroom type drivers meetings throughout the day, and a course walk thru and one on one seat time with every beginner driver. We will also have several other very well qualified instructors coming in and out of the program throughout the day.

to Preregister paypal $75 USD to , and please include desired run group, his/her full name, car, and any crew members you will have with you, as well as the size of your truck and trailer if you are towing the car.

A grip session will be available mid-day, for $20 per driver. This is not included in the Drift Registration. Pre Registration will not be available for this, but if you are interested in participating please let us know.

Spectators/Media will be free.

Media Pass Inquiries please email with, who you are, who you are covering the event for, and some of your past work. Media wanting on track please where bright clothing, and if possible bring a orange vest.

Any Questions please contact:


for anything media related.

TIRE MOUNTING will be done for $3.50 a tire by

Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #529

6410 I-45
La Marque, TX 77568
(409) 986-6000

Directions to Wal Mart

HOTEL INFO

Houston240sx'ers we have a special discount rate at the Fairfeild Inn by Mariott right across the street from GGP, and 10 minutes from GSS.

10700 Emmett F. Lowry Expressway
Texas City , TX 77591
409-986-3866

Rate is $65 a night for 2 queen size beds, which can support "Five people" please call and reserve now. The hotel says its mardi gras weekend so they aer limited on rooms, so call and reserve now and say you are with Houston240sx for the discounted rate! They also have FREE BREAKFAST!! (we will be building our schedule around the free hotel breakfast)

Directions to the Hotel


Grand Sport Speedway, The Fairfeild Inn, Wal Mart, Gulf Greyhound Park (where the Formula Drift qualifier will be held) , are all within easily a 10 Mile distance from each other. Here is a MAP showing all four locations, Grand Sport Speedway is red, Gulf Greyhound is black, Wal-Mart is Blue, Mariott is white. There is also a Whataburger, Jack in the Box, Mc Donalds, Shopping mall with Food Court (adjacent to the hotel) and several other restaurants in this area. This event should be very convenient, and extremely fun for everyone. Register and Book your hotel room now, see you there!
Here is a link to the thread on Houston240sx.com if you need anythign and cannot get in touch with anyone

[soy escuala]

sick, how far is that from houston? or your house? or jesse's camp? we need to hit that up for real!!!

[soy escuala]

nevermind, they won't let me run it cause i don't have a rollbar.

[Bad Luck]

damn, thats weak.

[warlock]

Caught testing earlier this year at Germany's Nurburgring is this prototype of what is assumed to be the next version of the Skyline GT-R. Obviously based on the car we know as the Infiniti G35 Coupe in America, Nissan has promised that this next car is coming to the States most likely wearing the name "Infiniti GT-R." The final production version will likely be shown at the 2007 Tokyo motor show. It should go on sale next year as a 2008 model.


what do you drive soy escuala????

[warlock]

new proto

[soy escuala]

skylines are sick....

AWD is made for grip. and i've heard rumors of quad turbos ect.... they are fast and crazy and all and deserve to be on top but, not really my style.

i perfer lower end RWD models from 86-94ish. something light, under powerd and built horribly. it makes the perfect drift car. my style is just drifting.

[wakemitch]

[quote="soy escuala"]i perfer lower end RWD models from 86-94ish. something light, under powerd and built horribly[/quote]
RX-7

[warlock]

i've seen an old rx7 get down on a track.. i couldn't believe it...

doesn't the number 1 drifting driver from japan drives a toyota (lexus) gs 430 who'd a thunk it.

if you get netflix, there is a best motoring video from japan that has all sorts of racing some w/ just japanese stuff like silvia's, a smokin nsx... some w/ skyline's vs porsche 911 turbo some good drifting footage..

pretty cool to watch, me personally fastest i can get around the track... seems like forever since i drove a track day and even longer since i rode a sportbike.. i miss my cbr every time i see someone rage'in on a sportbike... the wife has put a big X on me ever getting another street bike... gotta get my old dirt bike back in one piece..

[warlock]

BTW-

Nissan's original plan to do a V-8 has been axed because the engine is too big and heavy to provide the dynamic balance the engineers want. The V-6 will reputedly produce 450 hp and 370 lb-ft of torque. The power will be sent to all four wheels via a seven-speed transmission. Nissan is apparently aiming for a 0-to-60-mph time of 3.8 seconds, with a top speed north of 180 mph.

[soy escuala]

actually the RX-7 is a grip car made for track not drift. you have to do alot of work to an RX7 to get it to drift as good as a stock 240. plus rotary engines arnt the best thing for drifting, they burn too hott and break easy. im actually thinking of getting an FC down here, (2nd gen rx7) for 400 bucks, it has a blown motor. which i would if anything replace with an SR20DET. (nissan silvia motor) and build an SRX7 which is rare. it'll basicly be an S13 silvia, with an FC3S body.


warlock, i only know of one japanese driver drifting a toyota soarer (lexus sc 400 in us) they come with n/a supra engines!!

other then that i know one guy is drifting an altezza (is300).

warlock, you used to road race?

[warlock]

i used to go w/ a team of bike racers to some events... and i bought a race ready cbr and we stripped it and rebuilt the entire bike w/ teh exception of the bottom end.

as for cars i go to some track days w/ a few friends that race one has two cars he ended up w/ and will not drive because they are front wheel. he races his vipers.. i race his shelby daytonas they have full roll cages, fire supression, fuel cells.. my best friend, and godfather to my little girl is a porsche driving instructer.. so i ride w/ him and he has asked me to drive in some events w/... i haven't raced his porsche yet.. i'm not used to the wicked rear end instability it has.. not until the 993 did that problem get resolved... it would just take a lot of driving it.. and i can hop in a front wheel and rip... thanks to a jetta vr6 i had for a while.. boy i miss that little thing too.. so fun!!!!!!!! other than that... evertyhing was illegal... and i wish i never had done any of it now that i look back... i shouldn't be here.

[satori*]

i do autocross in my dad's mini. i show those cones who's boss.

soy escuala, im in the market for a board again, and that elise is still in the garage.

[soy escuala]

warlock, yea, me either.. i drift every day. on narrow roads with no sholdiers and steep ditches on each side, infact i almost flew off the road and into the woods just now. i like real street ditches, and coming really close to things. it's kinda crazy.

satori*, i'll trade you the elise for my soul.

[Iamjesse]

yea that shizzle is only like 40 minutes from my parents house, even if yall want to go check it out we could head down there for the weekend and stay at my parents house and ride ski a couple days get wasted at night then go check that shizzle out...

[soy escuala]

shizzle im down if bret wants to share the S14 for the day

[Iamjesse]

you can try driftin my moms sl 500

[soy escuala]

6 speed? or auto?

[warlock]

soy.. oh i know the feeling... if you aren't about to crash it.. well what the hell... we didn't push it hard enough.

i like the elise, but the exige really blows my skirt up around my ears

i want to take a rally course... awd in the dirt... i got air one time in a wrx test drive

[Iamjesse]

its an auto... i wasnt that serious lol