Heidts Performance Car Challenge - Midwest

[wmhjr]

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.

[protour73]

Originally Posted by wmhjr

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.

[nvr2fst]

Originally Posted by wmhjr

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.

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.

[WallyFM3]

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

[Van B]

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.

[Jim Nilsen]

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!!!!!!

[protour73]

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!!!!

[James OLC]

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!