USCA Daytona, who's going?
 

I'm in! Signed up Thursday.
I've never been more anxious to go to an event as this. Daytona. Hard to even think about how awesome this will be.

:woot:

Who's going to win?

:y0!:

Everyone the enters a car or goes to just to spectate is my guess!

I have no misconceived notions about winning anything that's for sure. But I am sure going to enjoy the experience of being there.
So are you calling the winner? :_paranoid

I will be there with the truck!

Yes I am!

Everyone who attends with or without a car!

Looking forward to Portland, OR :thumbsup:

I'm in - looking forward to it! Laguna Seca was a blast with more than enough track time for anyone who could pass sound (something that I could not do) and I know that there is nothing like Daytona and the chance to run Daytona under the lights... wow!

I'm in!
 

Glad it's only an hour away. Daytona is a great track.

Anyone within a 12hr drive should be going! It'll be 3 days of cool cars, great people and a world class venue, don't wish you went, get there!


And post pictures while you're having a blast!

Dan

Is there sound limit at Daytona?

I have not seen any mention to a sound limit at Daytona. WFO :beavis:

Aaron, With that attitude...You've already won.

Regards

CurtiSS 69

If my post wasn't clear enough - Laguna Seca had challenging sound restrictions (at 92 db) for some of us. Daytona (to my knowledge) does not have any such restrictions and based upon past experience there we're not going to have any issues. This will be a great time for everybody who can attend and will be an absolute blast.

These USCA Events are second to none - more track, autocross, and speed stop runs than you want and some true marquee tracks. I'm stepping out on a limb and shipping the OLC to Daytona. We're going to run Daytona and Road America (two bucket list tracks in their own right) and will continue to St. Louis and Detroit for sure. If everything hangs together we might try Sebring and finish up at PIR as well but there are some possibilities in September than may change our decisions for the rest of the year.

The best thing about these events is that your experience level doesn't matter - there are plenty of folks around to help out with advice and Jet Hot is even providing instructors on the road course. They are a great time to get to know a lot of fun folks and given the amount of track time available you're sure to improve your skills over the weekend.

James and Sieg, couldn't agree more! TMS was my first USCA event and also the first time I have had my Camaro on a road course. It was AWESOME. The camaraderie is by FAR the best part of the event. I can't go to Daytona (pains me to have to type that!!!!) but we are signed up for Gateway and trying to convince the wife to attend Road America or another event later in the year.

If you are considering attending a USCA event, don't think twice. Just sign up and go do it. The track time is greater than anything short of having your own track in your backyard. The Jet Hot instructors are a must if you are a Novice or even in the Advanced class. And last but not least, seek out Albert Melchior and hang at his barbecue with the crew. The dude can flat out cook and you will have the time of your life sharing stories, talking cars and just LYAO!!!! :thumbsup: Man I wanna go to Daytona! Send pics...and lots of them!

My wife and I are driving over 20 hrs one way!! "NO trailer" Looking forward to this event for sure!

Tony

Hey guys! New to the forum but found this thread googling. You receive half off if you refer someone to a USCA event. I want to attend the Daytona event but was looking for someone to refer. I know someone that's attending but hasn't been put down as a referee. PM me if you're interested!

Thanks!

I'll be in this

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SWEET 8lb-6oz baby Jesus! that's awesome :thumbsup:

Thanks!! I finally got it out to the track since the suspension upgrade to ridetech triple adjustables and it was incredible. Really want to make the USCA Daytona event.

Must.... finish..... car.....

So...I'll be boarding a plane bound for Florida tomorrow morning. :thumbsup:

It's officially a Mother in law visit trip but I've carved out all day Saturday and Sunday to visit Daytona and spectate this event.

I can't wait to watch all the great cars getting beat on under the lights of Daytona!!!

We just arrived! looking forward to a great weekend :)

Hey 63 Grandsport, I hope you get to run your car, if so I'll be right behind ya in our D & D Grand sport. It says no kit cars in the rules but maybe you'll get to run. Looking forward to seeing how it works out.

Jeff

Forecasted to be the hottest day in 3 years today in the area. I'm packing a cooler...

Can't waitto watch sStreet cars taking on Daytona.

We will have pics and updates throughout the event over on our main page.

Lateral-G

WELL....... WE'RE WAITING.......

so am I ... :lol:

Ousc
 

One word,,,,,, incredible event, ok two words. The 63GS was incredible!

Maybe I'm just stupid.... What is a 63GS ?

I think he is talking about a 1963 Grand Sport Corvette.

Jeff

AH HA!!

Thanks!

Out of context I couldn't come up with the "code".

Sitting in our hotel room at 6am, still buzzing from the experience yesterday. I'm pretty excited to get back for the autocross and speed stop challenge today, but it will be very hard to top the high banks:trophy-1302:

I am happy to go away with everything intact, running good after three full sessions on the track, including one at "dusk" with the track lights on. What an amazing thing to get to do. I will never forget that feeling. I was not pushing as hard as I could've (I wanted to have something to drive today:D ), but still managed to hit a high speed of 126mph. Danny Popp, Mike Johnson and Kyle were into the 160's for sure. Crazy.

Good news, nobody got hurt. James did get into the barrier though with the Onelap Camaro, felt horrible for him. Looked pretty superficial and I think they have it patched up for the rest of the event now. I think I heard last night that somebody did lose a motor too, but not sure who it was.

Time to get back, we have an 8:00am driver's meeting!

Thanks for the update, I wish there was more info coming out of the event.

Jeff

I just got back in from my second day there, a bunch of pictures in here.

https://plus.google.com/photos/10715...20385081637825

From the grins on everyone's faces...I'd say they were all having a great time. I'm extremely jealous... :lol:

In the second to last segment of the road course Sat night, as it was cooling down and the speeds and action were picking up, the One Lap Camaro lost control on the infield portion and ended up smacking the wall pretty good. This ended the Expert segment while they brought his car in. I snapped this picture as they unloaded it in his garage.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-k...o/DSC04724.JPG

It looked pretty bad to me and I figured he was done for.

But they worked on it over night and I snapped this picture of him running the speed stop on Sunday.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M...o/DSC04863.JPG

Really happy for them for getting the car on the track again.

I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure this is the car that had the engine failure on the autocross portion today.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-M.../DSC04812a.jpg

We saw it shooting fire out from under it near the finish but I didn't have my camera out at the time. Hate that they had that happen to them.

I know this though, all of these competitors were leaving it all out on the track. I've never heard so many LS engines getting wrung out so much like that before. It was like music to my ears. And they got SO MANY runs in!!! In the first autocross session I bet most of the guys got at least (25) 46-50 second runs in. and they had a whole 'nuther 2 hour session to run in the afternoon as well. Same with the Speed Stop. No lack of track time there at all.

Last I heard, Danny Popp had the fastest course time (2.08 maybe??) in the Lingenfelter Camaro

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W...o/DSC04813.JPG

Junior Johnson was smoking everyone on the autocross with a 45.507 I believe and Danny Popp, Finch, and Britt in the 48 hour Camaro were duking it out for second in the low 46 second range.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-D...o/DSC04836.JPG

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B...o/DSC04801.JPG

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-U...o/DSC04841.JPG

I just love these shots with the Chump cars on the high banks back behind them.

Speaking of chump cars

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-2...o/DSC04866.JPG

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-v...o/DSC04867.JPG

It was a great event, I agree hearing all those ls engines screaming down the straights was incredible.

I'm glad OLC got sorted out, I saw it hit the wall, good thing the damage was only cosmetic.

Someone said the fast guys were running laps similar to the WRL cars times WITH a chicane the other cars didn't run. They were incredible. Watching them glow their rotors on the infield portion was very impressive!

Thanks for posting Lance. Glad no one was hurt. Props to OLC for getting it back out there!!

No problem, I'm never shy about posting pics.


Can you guys open my album linked above? It's hard for me to tell if it's available to someone with the link or not.

I couldn't when I tried earlier...

Just curious, how many car participated in the event?