First Drive Event, MD (PIC. HEAVY)
 

If you missed the event, fear not because this is what happened. If you have any pics. or videos of your own please feel free to post.

Now for your viewing pleasure.

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I'm seeing "403 Forbidden" on all the pictures in your first post.

Edit: It's working now.

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I've never driven a car as fun as this. Put down a deposit and reserved my FRS this morning, then came to the stadium event to try it out. Loads of fun, I absolutely cannot wait to get it.

Also, funny thing -- my dad is also getting one. I'd been talking about the FRS/BRZ the last few times I've been to my parents' house, and he got excited enough about it through listening to me, and his own research, that he's ordered one for himself. How cool is that?

He's an old truck driver who's been driving manuals all his life, though, so he went for the automatic. I'm a young guy who's only had 2 dirt-cheap automatics in high school and college, so I'm going for the manual. I don't have too much to say, really, just very excited to get the car and was EXTREMELY happy to participate in the event today.

Thanks to the organizers and people working there, you were all great and everything went well. I took a lanyard, and will now use that to hold my id card/rsa tokens for work, haha. "Yokohama," too cool.

Now, I just need to learn to drive a standard transmission car before my FRS arrives...

Here's the pics that I got. I was there for the 1-2 session.

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Some Videos:

Walkaround
http://youtu.be/k6iJu9GUnqI

My Friend's First Drive
http://youtu.be/PqGm_G33IkA

Stationary Hot Lava FRS
http://youtu.be/8h2YMfHQcU4

My First Drive
http://youtu.be/bzPeuRMnhrY

Ruskymx

Sorry if there are duplicates.

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Here are some of my photos from the 9am slot.

^me and my fiancé looking under the hood in the 3rd pic

SWEET!!!! One of my photos selected for the front page :happyanim:. Damn i'm such a nerd lol.

Who else wishes that they had a lap timer for the course? I would have loved seeing my time get better for the second run. They could have done an award for the fastest lap.

Definitely. I was slow as hell my first lap, took about half a lap to get familiar with the car. I really wish they had let us drive more than twice. They spent half of the hour slot just talking about the car, when I imagine most of the people there already knew everything about it. I drove an hour+ for a total of about 60 seconds of drive time. It was still worth it, but could have been much better.

Edit- also, the first guy there in the Caps gear was absolutely tearing it up for our time slot (9am).

[QUOTE=GMU-BRZ;203144]Definitely. I was slow as hell my first lap, took about half a lap to get familiar with the car. I really wish they had let us drive more than twice. They spent half of the hour slot just talking about the car, when I imagine most of the people there already knew everything about it. I drove an hour+ for a total of about 60 seconds of drive time. It was still worth it, but could have been much better.QUOTE]

I agree totally

The group after mine barely had anyone in it. I asked if I could go again if they didn't have a good showing. They said only 2 runs per person. That cool though because I gave it hell both times. The second time I think that I would have had the record for the track. The car was on edge the whole time and I hit zero cones.:respekt:

Nice. This was actually my first time A. doing an autocross course and B. driving a RWD car. The first go through I was really timid. Definitely opened it up a bit more the 2nd time. I actually said when I was waiting in line for what I hoped would be the 3rd turn that I was going to use the paddle shifters that time and keep revs pretty high, but never had the chance to. :(

Fun, but I bet their insurance wouldn't have liked that. Bunch of young guys trying to beat each other's times in a car they've never driven? To be honest, I'm surprised they didn't make us wear helmets like in autocross!

BTW :coolpics:

Good point to make about the helmets because the person I was riding with scared the carp out of me both times.:burnrubber:

Yeah, I went slow as hell too the first lap (I was trying not to be that guy that crushes all the cones first go around). The second run was more fun when I put it into manual mode and could hold second gear, but I felt like i was just warming up. But I totally wish I could have went more times, timed and with stock cars to see difference between the two. They definitely would have had more time if they didn't go over the car specs. I went to the Lexus drive event a a few years back, when the LFA was making its rounds, and they let us drive both stock and F sport upgraded IS350's and the ISF, and there was no limit just get in as many rounds within the time limit. The LFA is a damn screamer by the way. Best sounding V10 hands down. The whiteout FRS does resemble the LFA IMO.

I was there and saw a few people taking pics of the black one haha. Might have been some of you folks.