The rules are posted at www.optimainvitational.com/faceoff

Tire rules - #11 - TIRES - Participants must use DOT approved, non-competition, treaded (non-grooved) street tires (no competition radials, no R compound, drag radials or shaved tread) with a tread wear rating of 200 or greater. Tires will be required to pass a technical inspection at the track. The spirit of the event requires the use of a DOT approved “non-competition” tire – any modifications to tires will be unacceptable. Any vehicle with tires showing any evidence of modification will be immediately disqualified from the event. Segments of the Faceoff will incorporate competitive elements that will make competition tires unsafe and uncompetitive. Safety is of the utmost importance and the race director or event coordinators will not hesitate to disqualify questionable tire selections.

All competitors in the event will be required to follow the same set of rules and there is no exhibition class for this event.

For anyone that wants to stay in Milwaukee near the kickoff for the Road Rally, we have a block of rooms at the Milwaukee River Hilton. Please contact the hotel directly, ask for reservations and let them know you are with the OPTIMA Faceoff event to receive the group rate of $86. The hotel is less than 5 minutes from from the start at Andrew Chevrolet.

http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/MKEHIHF-Hilton-Milwaukee-River-Wisconsin/index.do[/URL]

Here's the official logo of the event:

http://www.optimainvitational.com/fa..._Logo_site.jpg

Hey crew, I've been asked to share a few more of the important details to let everyone know just how fun this event is going to be. Be patient with me as I'm going to run through all aspects of the event so everyone is clear as to how this thing is going to work (thanks for the suggestion Finchy!).

Although this is listed as a two day event, the fun actually begins on Friday April 30 with an open house and lunch at the Roadster Shop in Mundelein, IL. Be sure to stop by there on your way up. On Friday evening, we're going to assemble at Andrew Chevrolet on Silver Spring Drive for an informal cookout with burgers and hot dogs, bench racing and lying about how good all of our cars are! Hotel info for Friday night is listed on the event website. Andrew Chevrolet has graciously offered to let anyone keep their tow vehicles and trailers in their secured lot all weekend long.

Saturday morning starts the official event. We'll meet again at Andrew Chevrolet at 8 am for a breakfast sponsored by Pennzoil. We'll get all the cars lined up and ready for the road rally segment of the event. We'll do a drive by the OPTIMA headquarters heading for our first stop (mystery stop to be announced that morning). The cruise route will wind through the beautiful Wisconsin countryside to West Bend Dyno where they and D&Z Customs will provide you with a great lunch. Our final stop will be the famous track at Road America where we will park all the cars and have them teched while we watch James Shipka and his fellow One Lap of America competitors tear it up on the track. The Roadster Shop Performance Design competition will take place on Saturday afternoon as well. This will be a participant judged event with a special award from the Roadster Shop. Basically, you vote for your favorite vehicle in the event (except your own), and the vehicle with the most votes wins.

At 4:00 on Saturday, the high-speed competition begins with the Carbon Kustoms Karting Enduro, a one hour team endurance go-karting event. All competitors and non-driving competitors will be included. This is meant to be a social event, so we will throw everyone's name into a hat and draw out four person teams. Once the teams are established, we will then have all four members of the team gather on the karting scale to determine the starting grid! The heaviest team will start on the pole and the lightest team will start at the back of the pack! This should make for a great icebreaker and some good natured fun. Saturday night concludes with appetizers and bench racing at Siebkins Stop-Inn, a world famous tavern that has hosted every famous racer in history since the 50's. If you know any racers by name, I can practically guarantee you that they've been to Siebkins Stop-Inn. Be sure to bring your favorite racing sticker as the entire establishment is decorated with thousands of them.

The Sibkins Hotel offers some great rooms with great rates, be sure and book quickly, info is on the website. http://www.siebkens.com/

The on track competition starts on Sunday with a 7am drivers meeting. Breakfast food is available from the famous Gearbox restaurant at the track. We'll shoot to have cars on the track by 8am. The BFG Hot Lap Challenge will be on the famous track with a custom configuration specifically designed for our event. http://roadamerica.com/FanInformation/Maps.asp

The DSE Speed Attack Autocross will be held at the Briggs & Stratton Motorplex, and is sure to be one of the most unique and entertaining autocross tracks you'll ever see. This is not a parking lot or skid pad, but a mini road course with rumble strips and elevation changes! http://roadamerica.com/userfiles/ima...rplex_580w.jpg

The Baer Brakes Speed Stop Challenge will be a true 0-100-0 competition on the most famous front straight in racing!

A couple things to keep in mind - this event is a BFG contingency event, so all of you running BFG's, be sure to sign up at BFG's Nation of Go. BFG has stepped up big and is paying out cash for participants running their product. Brian Finch earned valuable points and $350 at RTTC! http://www.nationofgo.com/#/explore

Lastly, this is an OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car qualifying event. We will be offering two, yes two, invitations to the Ultimate Street Car Invitational in Pahrump, NV right after SEMA!!

We're limiting the event to 60 entries and they're filling up fast. Don't miss out on the chance to be part of the inaugural group to run at Road America and earn your chance to compete with the elite at the OUSCI in 2010. This will truly be one of the most memorable events of the year!

http://www.optimainvitational.com/faceoff

Additional incentive from Bret at Ridetech:

"Hi guys…just now getting a chance to write a few thoughts. As we discussed briefly on Sunday, I would like to set up an offer to store up to 6 participants cars at our facility between the Face Off event on May 1 and the MMC event on May 30 for those who would enter both events. We could even extend that a bit further if they wanted to stay for the Power Tour and/or the Motorstate event in June. Here is a schedule of events in the area that might be of interest for this type vehicle/owner:

April 30-May 2 – Face Off at Road America – 7 hours from Jasper
May 8-9 – 10/10ths track day at Putnam Park – 2 hours from Jasper http://www.1010thsmotorsports.com/page/page/5236308.htm
May 21-23 GoodGuys Nashville – 3 hours from Jasper
May 29-30 Midwest Musclecar Challenge – 1 hour from Jasper
June 5-12 HotRod Power Tour – Iowa to Alabama
June 18-20 Motorstate Challenge – 5 hours from Jasper
July 9-11 Goodguys Columbus – 5 hours from Jasper

We are 75 miles from the Louisville airport. If the flights are coordinated I can even arrange a group ride from the airport to our shop."

A way generous offer guys - don't miss out, no excuses about storage now!! Thanks for the offer Bret.

Is there any chance of a group deal on and enclosed Semi? Maybe I'll talk to Steve about that.

Right now the best deal I can find is $2600 round trip and we have to leave at the middle of next week with 6 cars.

Dad and I will be coming as spectators. Do you need any information from us prior to just showing up????? I just wanted to make sure.

Thanks

None needed, looking forward to seeing you there!

Hey all, I just wanted to let you know that I called Road America to verify that spectators could get into the track to check out the action. I was told that any spectators can attend for no cost, but will need to sign a waiver on the way in.:thumbsup:

We will anxiously be headed to the event with our 69 Camaro and maybe a few of our other builds... Very excited to meet everyone and participate in this awesome event! One question I have is where do you register on the BFG site for the contingency points? I signed up but did not see an area to register for this event... Thanks in advance for your help!

Just create a profile on the website to log your trip and there will be signup sheets at the event to register for the Team TA contingency.

Jimi,
Call me this week to let me know when you want me there for helping out.

thats amazing no cost to spectators:wow: its a great track raced bikes back in the day.

Is it too late to sign up for this event? been busy and just found out about it , I would like to bring the hemicuda.

I'm sure you still can. Hope to see you there and meet you. Its funny I feel like I already know you from watching Bullrun.

Matt

I too... broke a lot of stuff, including myself:thumbsup:

Hey all, pray for good weather!:_paranoid
Just wanted to let you all know that I live in the area and if anyone runs into a snag let me know and I will assist if possible. I’ll be in a green ’69 AMC Javelin, likely the only one. LOL.
Good luck to all competitors.
:cheers:
Mike

So how did the first day go?

Great 4th t and tonic just arrived

I am so jealous of you guys that participated in this thing, you were ALL driving the wheels off those things and had some major track time.:hail:
Simply awesome.

What an awesome event!! The track was incredible, the staff was incredible, the weather was incredible!! You couldn't have asked for a better time!!! We had a blast!!! Thanks to all that made it happen!!

One question I have is it was mentioned a few times pics were going to be put op on Facebook... DO you know where they can be found??

Thanks Curt, glad you enjoyed yourself. Pictures are on the OPTIMA Battery Facebook page in their photos.

This is Fritz... But thanks!!!

My bad Fritz!! :wow: I know better than to assume anything. Sorry we didn't get a chance to chat more this weekend. These events always fly by then afterward you think to yourself, "man, how come I didn't get to spend more time with _______________ (insert any participant name here)?"

:thumbsup:Great time, Great people, just a super weekend !!!! Wiedo

Drove through Chicago then stop and slept for a little last night... Got back around noon and unloaded the Camaro around 2:00...... As most of you know we hurt the motor yesterday.... Shes out and ready to get blown apart... Thank you Road America... We will be back with a little more power!! See you in Nashville at the Goodguys show...

I hurt mine too, but its not out yet! Probably Saturday...the 'new' plan depends how bad it's tore up...


You guys built a beauty of a car there!..it was great to see it out at the event.:thumbsup:

thanks for the great time
 

I had a very hard week getting my car ready, and I almost gave up missed saturday and just made it on sunday! I just have my shop clean enough to work and its almost 2pm, to say the least my tool box exploded all over my shop. I am so happy I made it and with a car that I really did'nt think even belonged there due to my Cuda heading to Mecum this month and my Camaro in the corner not ready for anything. So last week I had the idea to break out the credit card and buy some minimal parts to take my 78 gold edition y88 car out of the corner and get it out on the track, I've owned the car since I was 16 and its probably the coolest piece of my history that I have I really cant believe the car or me made it out of high school alive. So back to the story I just made it and got sent right to the autox and lets just say I needed some more go juice to get this thing around the corner, and if you seen me at the brake challenge I looked more like a stunt driver than a race car driver, but the car did very well on the road coarse in the back straight I actually had the speedo bouncing off the peg! After lunch I headed back to the autox and ran a ton of laps I beat the car so hard I broke the 2 front seat brackets off then headed back to the road track and had an absolute blast. So everythings done and their handing out all of the awards and imagine that I did'nt win a thing (not that I expected to) but they got to the last thing the overall winner who gets a spot at the optima ultimate street car invitational and just before they announced the winner they said that they would be handing out 2 instead of just one and they gave the 2nd spot to little old me with a old mostely stock trans am I almost fainted! So the jist of this long post (sorry) is get your butt's out there and have fun it does'nt matter what you have or if you think you or your car wont impress anyone trust me I built plenty of cooler cars than this but it just goes to show if you get out there and beat your car into the dirt and smile while doing it someone just might send you to Vegas Baby!!!!!!!!! I would like to thank Jimi and Cam and everybody else that had anything to do with this event. Telly Violetto

Telly,

Congrats on the invite, You will have a blast this fall.

If you want to consider running with the Rat Pack to Vegas let me know so we can include you in our cross country plans.

Thanks Finch your cars are awsome and you can surely get them around the track, For the offer on the road trip I'll probably have to tow it out there so why spend all that money on pulling it out there when I car just drive the car? So if the wife lets me (she'll be 8 month's along with our 2nd child) I'm in! Now I just have to figure out my game plan to make that car more competitive. Telly

Face off at road of america
 

Great event
Some one had a 1962 Nova at this event. I am looking to get pictures of this car. If you have any please email [email protected].
I hope to see this event next year.:thumbsup:

Dennis Linson had the Chevy II. His user name is dlinson - I think

Face Off Lunch Stop
 

Hi everyone involved in the Face Off , I would like to just say it was great to be involved in the Face Off & be the lunch stop sponsor. I enjoyed seeing old faces & meeting & talking with new ones. I hope eveyone had a great time & look forward to seeing all of you at the Mid West Muscle Car Challenge.

66ls7,man your car is great looking i hope that you work out the bugs soon.I enjoyed talking to you and your son I hope to bring my car down to have you do some work on it.

Hi 732ndgen, I am working on the bugs as we speak. The young man that was with me is Levi he works for me at the shop. I look forward to helping with your Camaro.

A big thank you to LS67 for the lunch you hosted it was really great coming by with the RatPack....

Randy,

Thank you for stepping up and helping out on this event, the lunch was excellent and really added to the weekend. It is a big commitment for the smaller shops to step up in this way so more proof that you get it and see where this stuff is going. I am working hard to get to where you are as I can see you are enjoying what you're doing.

Thanks again and see you at the next one,

Hi Tazzz, it was great talking with you as usual & thanks for sponsoring the Go karting I had a blast.:thumbsup:

Hi Brian, I think you already are there, your cars that you build are top notch show quality, & perform like race cars. You are setting a bench mark for others to try & reach.

See Ya at Putnam.:cheers: