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?