I call shotgun!!!!!:cheers:

10 days left to save $40.00
 

Are you planning on coming out to the Heidts Performance Car Challenge? Make sure go to www.heidtsperformancecarchallenge.com and register before June 20th to receive the $40.00 early bird discount. What are you going to do with your $40.00???

Eight days and counting
 

There's only eight days left to claim your $40 discounted entry fee. Go to www.heidtsperformancecarchallenge.com to register. Don't miss this great opportunity to run at one of the premier racing facilities in the Midwest.

Don't know if I can make it - but I'm letting plenty of my local (Central Illinois) folks know about it.

Thanks for spreading the word, hopefully you are able to make it. This is going to be a great event.

I'm going to wait until the very last day!! LOL

I was going to opt out of the event and just volunteer to help out......but I can't.....I just CAN'T!!

I have been super anxious to get my car on a track and have some fun with it, without tearing it up (after all, it is why I built it). Autobahn is an awesome facility, so I am in. Oh yea, and it's only 20 minutes from my house!!

Don't you EVEN THINK of wussing out, Scotty. If I have to, I will come to your house and drag you out kicking and screaming like a little girl!!!! Then throw your butt in the Camaro. You get entered NOW <LOL>!!!

Besides, I need you to show me the way to Heidt's for Friday's registration and BBQ.

Cheers,
Mary Pozzi

No need to get hostile, woman!!

I just paid the entry fee ....... I'm IN!!! :unibrow:

I dare you to say that to your wife :rofl:

Will be there don't know if I'm going to run car have to get some bugs out.

We look forward to seeing you there, hopefully with your car.

Looks like Schwartz entered !!! :thumbsup:

How about a Cruise up to Heidt's from the Host Hotel?
 

All of you out-of-towners....AND...all of you IN-towners. I'd like to organize a group cruise from the Holiday Inn in Joliet (host hotel) up to Heidt's facility in Wauconda for the factory tour. This is a 68 mile cruise on interstate highways. Could be a lot of fun with a large group.......think of it as Power Tour Chicago style!!

Let me know if you are interested so we can set a time :unibrow:

Heidts Performance Car Challenge Schedule of Events
 

The Heidts Performance Car Challenge is a five-element event open to all domestic vehicles. The event will be run on July 15th - 17th at Heidts Hot Rods and Muscle Car Parts and one of the Midwest’s premier road courses, Autobahn Country Club, in Joliet, IL. The five elements include road course, street driving, autocross, braking challenge and Karting Enduro. In addition to the driving events there will also be a car show July 16th and 17th.

July 15th 2011
Heidts Hot Rods and Muscle Car Parts
111 Kerry Lane
Wauconda, IL - 60084

3:00pm - Arrive at Heidts
4:00pm - 5:00pm Registration, facility tour, and participant lunch.
5:00pm - 5:30 pm Line up in front of Heidts for QA1 Cruise
6:00pm - 8:00pm QA1 Cruise from Heidts to Host Hotel - Joliet Holiday Inn and Conference Center
8:00pm - Holiday Inn parking lot - QA1 Trailer receive decal for completing Cruise

Joliet Holiday Inn Conference Center
411 South Larkin Ave.
Joliet, IL 60436

July 16th, 2011
Autobahn Country Club
3795 South Patterson Rd,
Joliet, IL 60436

7:00am - Arrive at track - gates open

7:00am - 9:00am - Registration and sign in

7:00am - 9:00am - Mandatory tech inspection (must register before tech)

8:00am - 8:20am - Drivers meeting

8:30am - 8:45am - Lead follow laps

9:00am - 12:00pm - Rt. 66 Car Show Registration

12:00pm - 4:00pm - Rt. 66 Car Show Judging


Session One
9:30am - 9:45am Heidts Road Course Challenge Group A
9:50am - 10:05am Heidts Road Course Challenge Group B
10:10am -10:25am Heidts Road Course Challenge Group C

Session Two
10:30am - 10:45am Heidts Road Course Challenge Group A
11:00am - 11:15am Heidts Road Course Challenge Group B
11:20am - 11:35am Heidts Road Course Challenge Group C

11:40am - 12:40pm Lunch break / Car Show Participant parade laps

Session Three
12:45pm - 1:00pm Heidts Road Course Challenge Group A
1:05pm - 1:20pm Heidts Road Course Challenge Group B
1:25pm - 1:40pm Heidts Road Course Challenge Group C

Session Four
1:45pm - 2:00pm Heidts Road Course Challenge Group A
2:05pm - 2:20pm Heidts Road Course Challenge Group B
2:25pm - 2:40pm Heidts Road Course Challenge Group C

2:45pm - 3:00pm Corner worker break

Session Five
3:05pm - 3:20pm Heidts Road Course Challenge Group A
3:25pm - 3:40pm Heidts Road Course Challenge Group B
3:45pm - 4:00pm Heidts Road Course Challenge Group C



Session Six
4:05pm - 4:20pm Heidts Road Course Challenge Group A
4:25pm - 4:40pm Heidts Road Course Challenge Group B
4:45pm - 5:00pm Heidts Road Course Challenge Group C


5:15pm - 5:45pm Carbon Kustoms Karting Enduro drivers meeting and team selection
5:45pm - 6:45pm Carbon Kustoms Karting Enduro

7:15pm - Secure Track

July 17th, 2010
Autobahn Country Club
3795 South Patterson Rd,
Joliet, IL 60436

All participants arrive at track gates open 7:00am

7:00am - 9:00am - Registration and sign in and re-grouping
(Divide group C and add to groups A and B)

7:00am - 9:00am Mandatory tech inspection (must register before tech)

8:00am - 8:30am - Drivers meeting

8:30am - 8:45am - Autocross walk

9:00am - 12:00pm - Car Show Registration

12:00pm - 2:30pm - Car Show Judging


9:00am - 10:20am Wilwood Braking Challenge Group A
9:00am - 10:20am Nitto Autocross Challenge Group B
10:30am - 11:50am Nitto Autocross Challenge Group A
10:30am - 11:50am Wilwood Braking Challenge Group B

12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch break / Car Show Participant parade laps


1:00pm - 3:30pm Open track time on Nitto Autocross Challenge and Wilwood Braking Challenge

3:00pm Rt. 66 Car Show Awards Ceremony

3:40pm - 4:45 pm Strange Engineering Awards Banquet

5:00pm Secure track

Cruise up to Heidt's Hot Rod & Musclecar Parts from Host Hotel
 

(Posted this over on pro-touring.com as well)
All of you out-of-towners....AND...all of you IN-towners. I'd like to organize a group cruise from the Holiday Inn in Joliet (host hotel) up to Heidt's facility in Wauconda for the factory tour. Could be a lot of fun with a large group.......think of it as Power Tour Chicago style!!

Depart Holiday Inn (host hotel) at about 1:15pm

Best route:

I-55 North to I-355 North
I-355 North to Lake Cook Rd.
Lake Cook Rd (also marked as E. County Line Rd) west to Rand Rd. (Rte. 12)
Rand Rd. (Rte. 12) north to County Hwy 61 (W. Bonner Rd)
County Hwy 61 east to Old Rand Rd.
Old Rand Rd south to Kerry Ln, take a left
Heidt's is at 111 Kerry Ln. in Wauconda
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If anyone has any options to this, please chime in......like " Don't go that way dumazz there is construction on that road " LOL

Google maps show this route as 68 miles. With a 1hr/25min. drive time. Realistically, I'd say an 1hr/45min. drive as this is on a Friday afternoon.

This leaves many places for people to join in at any point.

RPM Hot Rods will be there with "The Runt" ready to put it through its paces...

It would be cool to see some of the other SMOTY contenders show up too!!

WOW!!! I can't wait to see that car, very cool to have you guys attend!!

No Offence but the best part of the Columbus show was you beating the snot out of the car.

Finally another builder that actually truly build a car that is meant to be driven and driven hard. You guys are the best.

Wish you could have witnessed the Thursday night Parking lot session... When the State Police helicopter circled twice we figured it was time to leave..

Is Gerry coming with you guys? Maybe behind the wheel a bit?

She is and I hope so...

I'm at work typing this, so to save time I'm just posting links.....but it's some good information :D

Thursday night before the kickoff of the Heidt's event, some of us are getting together for dinner & refreshments http://www.pro-touring.com/showthrea...ore-the-event-...

......and for directions to the Autobahn Country Club from the host hotel http://www.pro-touring.com/showthrea...Inn-host-hotel

Actually we went to the skid pad at our local track and Gerry was wheeling the car around really well! She is somewhat new to all this but is catching on quickly!

Beaverrun I assume?

You are correct... I am going to post some pics on the build thread for the car shortly..

Just as an FYI....

I had to arrange something and needed to confirm with the track today. They mentioned a number of road closures related to weather, so everyone should be prepared to adapt tomorrow and Friday as far as routing. Just wanted to let folks know.

Called the guys at Heidt's ...... all is good on the roads up there, no trees down, traffic lights are working.

For those WI. guys heading down. Hwy 83 has road closures due to construction. North of Mundelien Ill closed and also south of North Praire WI. closed. The alternative routes add quite a bit of travel time.

Thank You!
 

Thank you to all of you who spent your weekend with us at the Heidts Performance Challenge!!!

Thanks to all of you who made it happen even with all the heat and humidity. The whole weekend ran flawlessly. First class all the way.

Thankyou to everyone who made this event possible. I actually ran the brake pads of the right rear with all that track time, over eighty miles of hard full throttle and full brake running. The autocross was also a big blast of time that was more than we could all ask for.

If you missed this event you missed out on the most track time you could ever get for your money!!!!!!

Thanks to Wally & Jimi for putting together a stellar event. FUN - SAFETY - PARTICPATION were the key words for the entire weekend. This was my first event of it's kind for me. I can say that it was very professionaly run by Jimi and Wally. Everything went off without a hitch. This was an innaugural event.....next year proves to be BIGGER & BETTER, you NEED to attend if you weren't there this year.

As Jim said above, if you didnt get enough track time it probably means you broke !!!

This event was way more than just track time. The Road Cruise from Heidt's facility in Wauconda back to the hotel in Joliet on Friday.

ALL DAY at the road course on Saturday......THEN, the 1 hour Karting enduro with random teams picked, which was a freaking riot!!!

The Start-Stop Challenge on Sunday, as well as an AWESOME autocross course, which had a crapload of tracktime available too!!!

Above all of the fun car stuff was the car PEOPLE, I met new friends like Scott & Scott from Minnesota ......... together we were Scott CUBED!! LOL
As well as many others ....... people I have talked to for years online and finally got to meet in person like Mary Pozzi. People you never met before in your life were ready to help you with your car, help you with your driving technique, or just generally shoot the sh*t.

A shout out to the "Buddah of the Bullhorn" - Chad!!!! This guy kept the whole show going with his track information announcements and humorous banter on the bullhorn.......quite the funny man!!!

Again, all in all an awesome freaking event, and for my first event of it's kind a weekend full of unforgettable moments.

Oh yea......my car proved it's worth to me, everything worked, NOTHING broke and I drove the snot out of it. A best Road Course time of 1:28 - compared to a best time of 1:09, and a best Autocross time of 37.5 - compared to a best time of 32.xx. I thought I did pretty good for a first track excursion for myself and the car.

Again thanks to Heidt's and all of the other many sponsors and Jimi and Wally ( and your whole team ) at FM3 Performance Marketing!!!! :hail: :thumbsup: :hail: :thumbsup: :hail:

Thanks to Wally, Jimi, Heidts, Autobahn Country Club, and the sponsors and volunteers who made this past weekend possible! The Heidts Performance Car Challenge was - by far - the best Pro-Touring event that I have had the pleasure of attending. The facility was second to none, the organization was excellent, and the execution was (as far as I could see) flawless. Everyone had a great time and it was really neat to see some of the people from the mid west who I hadn't met before.

Between the cruse(s), getting to the event, and the road course I think I put easily 350 miles on the car over the weekend - with almost 150 of those being on the track! (most of the rest were in generally crappy Chicago traffic and almost all of them were in 90+ degree heat but they were fun none the less). I think at the end of the day Sunday just about everybody had had their fill of the track and I am sure that nobody will look back on the weekend an think that they didn't have at the opportunity to run their car as much as they wanted.

The OLC worked great over the weekend - thanks in no small part to the new RideTech Triple Adjustable shocks (which I think we are getting very to having fully dialed in) and to our Baer 6R brakes (which saved my butt a couple of times). Stielow put on a clinic over the weekend on his way to the overall victory and it was great to see Mary win the invitation to the OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car Invitational with her second place finish (you're welcome Mary ;)). There were some great runs by everybody and (as always) it was really cool to see everybody beating on their cars despite the heat (and a touch of humidity).

Great job everybody - without a doubt see you next year!

Hpcc
 

I would also like to thank everyone at FM3 & the Heidts crew for making this a must go to event. The whole thing ran flawlessly, from the track, auto-x, & speed stop. I also would like to say that the Autobahn facility is one of the nicest tracks I've ever been to & the private garage owners on the grounds were more than happy to help out with car repairs.
:thumbsup: :woot:

Smooth as silk, Wally and Jimmy Mucho Gracias. Thanks to all the event sponsors as well. I had a great time, meet some new friends, killed a few brain cells and a set of brake pads. I WILL be attending next year without a doubt.

Racers and Participants:
Many thanks for participating in the inaugural Heidts Performance Car Challenge and for helping to make it the success it was. I trust a good time was had by all. On behalf of all of us at Heidts and our sponsors, we sincerely appreciate the positive feedback on the forums regarding the event. It was certainly fun watching all of you participate in all of the events that were planned for you.

Whether it was the great questions poised to our production team during plant tour, the shock and awe from the pedestrians as you passed through downtown Wauconda, watching many of you race 80+ miles over the two days and of course, Chad Reynolds keeping us informed, entertained and moving all weekend long, it was a pleasure to have you be part of our event. Other highlights included watching Randy Johnson working night and day, everyone surviving the go-carts, the Autobahn staff trying to clean the track after the WilStop event, letting an Autobahn member’s Porsche on the AutoCross course (which was an awakening for him) and the remarkable times and performances turned in by all of you, especially Mark and Mary.

Our plans are to make next year’s Heidts Performance Car Challenge at Autobahn even bigger and better. We are currently registering racers on the waiting list for next year’s event on the heidtsperformancecarchallenge.com website, as we confirm the date for the 2012 event (likely unchanged or September). Also, be SURE to invite your friends and fellow drivers to sign up for next year's event – judging from the number of first-time competitors at this year's event, there is plenty of interest in these types of events...but we need your help in spreading the word.

Again, we appreciate your support and are committed to grow this event to be one of the best driving experiences for our racers and participants. If you have any additional feedback about this event, or things you'd like have as part of the event in the future, please don't hesitate to let us know. See you next year!


Wal Leyshon
President/CEO
[email protected]
Heidts Automotive
www.heidts.com

Heidts Performance Car Challenge Results
 

The results are posted at www.heidtsperformancecarchallenge.com
Thank you to all who attended!
Wally

Awesome track and awesome people = awesome event! Wally and Jimi, y'all always put on fantastic events, and this one was a blast. The Budda of the bullhorn always keeps things entertaining. Heidts, QA1, Nitto, Wilwood, Carbon Kustoms, and the rest of the sponsors, thank you for a fantastic weekend. I got to drive fast, pitch it sideways, and I met some new drinking buddies. You can't ask more than that. I'm definitely ready for next year!

Thanks Karl, it's our pleasure! Glad you had fun and we'll look forward to seeing you again soon.

I would like to congratulate Mary Pozzi on her winning the invite to the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational. :bow:

It was a fun weekend at the Heidts Performance Car Shootout. I had a good time hanging out with old friends and meeting some new ones. I was impressed at this track event by the lack of drama. I’ve done a number of these track events and usually someone over does it and has a big off. I think our community has gotten much better at track events both as competitors and planners. This deal went seamless. It ran on time with no issues.

There were a number of cars that were running fast and getting quicker with each session. It appears the quality of the cars, preparation of the cars and driving skill are on the rise.

To Jimi and FM3 staff, it was a well run event thanks! To all the competitors I hope to see you at another event.

Now I need to go practice my AutoX skills if I’m going to get closer to Mary. :_paranoid

Stielow :lateral: