USCA Daytona, who's going?

[Silverstreak]

Originally Posted by 65_LS1_T56

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

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 ), 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

[SSLance]

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...

[SSLance]

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.



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.



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.



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.

[SSLance]

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



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.







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

[SSLance]

Speaking of chump cars

[pavell]

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.

[SSLance]

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!

[efs69]

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

[SSLance]

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.

[carbuff]

I couldn't when I tried earlier...

Just curious, how many car participated in the event?