86EXPO 2014 Coming!

[Sportsguy83]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

UPDATE:

Alright ladies & dudes (lol)

We have some states wanna do the event in. Here are the lists
Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, & Tennessee.

Cuz I never been to any of those states, so I need you guys feedback on this to get this event on the roll! If you guys can add pros & cons of these states.

When you guys putting pros & cons, please don't bash for without reasons. Please put the reason for all pros & cons to help us out decide.

Georgia, please make it Georgia.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by Sportsguy83

Georgia, please make it Georgia.

Please ain't gonna cut it. lol

Seriously, We need to see the reasons (both pros & cons) to make it happen in Georgia

[Sportsguy83]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Please ain't gonna cut it. lol

Seriously, We need to see the reasons (both pros & cons) to make it happen in Georgia

I know. Sir. :-) just went for the closest

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[buddy32]

Atlanta is a major travelling hub for many, highways make the city easily accessible (just make sure to coordinate your time coming in with rush hour; but same with any major city). You can get to the Atlanta airport from just about any city, and also a lot of international countries. Road Atlanta and Atlanta Motorsports Park are two tracks that are easily reachable for track time. If those don't work out, the north GA mountain roads such as Blood Mountain are easily reachable in about an hour. I think @ATL BRZ may be able to come up with a few more reasons.

[ATL BRZ]

Originally Posted by buddy32

Atlanta is a major travelling hub for many, highways make the city easily accessible (just make sure to coordinate your time coming in with rush hour; but same with any major city). You can get to the Atlanta airport from just about any city, and also a lot of international countries. Road Atlanta and Atlanta Motorsports Park are two tracks that are easily reachable for track time. If those don't work out, the north GA mountain roads such as Blood Mountain are easily reachable in about an hour. I think @ATL BRZ may be able to come up with a few more reasons.

This.

Having the Expo in Atlanta, at a local road course would be EPIC. 86's on track, 86s being shown off, parts being sold and immediately installed and track tested. I can't think of anything more fun to draw a bunch of owners in from surrounding states.

Even if we just congregate somewhere in the city it wouldn't be impossible to get an open parking lot (Tuner Field, Stone Mtn or Gwinnett FairGrounds) and start tossing our cars through some cones.

I have been dying for something big like this to come to our city and get EVERYONE out!

The SE 86 club recently tried to put together a track day at AMP and failed miserably. Nobody fronted the money for the track time and it fell apart quickly.

[buddy32]

May give an opportunity for people to track as well, I know not a whole lot of people do, but they could get their feet wet with options of 1 or two sessions on the track.

[meeskee2]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

When you guys say Boston & New York. You guys really thinking of place that can be done? Space for over 100 cars, plus vendors & ppl, cruise, autox or even track, travel around without getting stuck on traffic (to certain level).

...or just lazy & don't wanna drive more than few mins from where you live?

I'm going to throw this out there.... New Hampshire Motor Speedway. I know its no where near the middle of the east coast, but it has TONS of space. Lot of hotels in the area as it is a NASCAR track.

On the note about not wanting to drive. I have no issues with driving down to somewhere mid country, Atlanta however seems a bit far, IMO.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by buddy32

May give an opportunity for people to track as well, I know not a whole lot of people do, but they could get their feet wet with options of 1 or two sessions on the track.

Track is always nice... but sometimes, for owner that's new to sports car, track is a bit scary thing for them. Experienced guys, we know it's fun... but danger of damaging the car is higher than autox.

You gotta start em small w less danger, my friend.

This is the one of the reason, I prefer autox at the event than track. It's also low cost than track. For gutless car like FRS/BRZ it's really fun.

Last yr's event, we had more than half of the owner who signed up for autox never did autox. After that, almost every single one of em told me, they really loved it & want to do it again or look into track event around their area.

[SnapOv3st3r]

I'm in TN. If not for my local track closing down, I would say have it here at the Nashville Super Speedway. I vote for GA and doing it at AMP or something.

[Krait1]

NY or NJ

[ZENBOX]

I second Tail of the Dragon....It's in Tennessee, in the middle of the East Coast, and has an awesome road to be fun for our driver's car be driven. Take a look for yourself.

http://www.tailofthedragon.com/

[buddy32]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Track is always nice... but sometimes, for owner that's new to sports car, track is a bit scary thing for them. Experienced guys, we know it's fun... but danger of damaging the car is higher than autox.

You gotta start em small w less danger, my friend.

This is the one of the reason, I prefer autox at the event than track. It's also low cost than track. For gutless car like FRS/BRZ it's really fun.

Last yr's event, we had more than half of the owner who signed up for autox never did autox. After that, almost every single one of em told me, they really loved it & want to do it again or look into track event around their area.

Definitely true. For my first time, I jumped into HPDE without autox. Learning the car in a different setting for sure, and it's could be set up with more HPDE type setting, have volunteer instructors and such. Therefore minimizing people driving outside of their ability. Autox is def safer to organize. Maybe both? :p May be able to set up both at Road Atlanta?

Hehehehe.

[STV3]

NY or NJ. Up here in bear mountain NY there is huge field where they have a big car show every Wednesday and its usually a few hundred cars and plenty of room for vendors and NJ has a nice big expo center

[SnapOv3st3r]

Originally Posted by ZENBOX

I second Tail of the Dragon....It's in Tennessee, in the middle of the East Coast, and has an awesome road to be fun for our driver's car be driven. Take a look for yourself.

http://www.tailofthedragon.com/

+1 On that.