MIR Track Rental : 9/17/10 Maryland International Raceway

[Jon@AAMComp]

Hey everyone,

I've talked with a few you guys before about a potential track rental, and it looks like the opportunity has finally presented itself. A few of our GT-R customers are looking to rent out Maryland International Raceway on Friday, September 17th. We did this once this earlier year, and there was a pretty strong turnout of GT-Rs, Porsches and a plenty domestic muscle cars.

Here are some photos I took from the event earlier this Spring:























Now I can imagine some of you may not be able to take a 3 day weekend, but if you can, this should be a very fun event for everyone. To race, it will be $100 per car, and you'll have access to BOTH lanes on the track, including the super sticky pro stock lane, which is generally the right lane. The $100 gets you access to the track all day long, and you can have as many runs as you would like. Drivers are allowed passengers to ride along down the drag strip with them as well, as long as they sign the M.I.R. track waiver and they have a racing helmet.

For those who don't care to race their car, its still an open event that's free for spectators to come down and watch the other cars go down the track. This also promises to be pretty exciting as one of our GT-R customers will be running his fully built GT-R, which looks to be a sub 10.2 GT-R as well as an AMS Performance built GT-R, which is also capable of sub 10.2 second 1/4 mile passes. We may have a GT-R shootout on our hands!

Anyway, I just wanted to present this information to everyone, and I hope we can have some 370Z owners bring their cars out and represent the Z34! Track information is as follows:

Maryland International Raceway
27861 Budds Creek Road
Mechanicsville, MD 20659-2961
(301) 884-9833


The link to the thread on NAGTROC(GT-R Owners Club) is here:
MIR track rental! - NAGTROC - The Nissan GT-R Owners Club

As usual, I will be there with all my camera junk, both photo and video, so I will be doing my best to record each and every Nissan run. If anyone is interested in signing up, post up in the thread and/or send me a pm and I can send you any and all additional information I receive from the event organizer and M.I.R.

-Jon

[3SeventyZ]

Sounds like a good time!

[m4a1mustang]

OMG What a great way to celebrate my Birthday! I'm off that week and my B-day is on the 18th! I'M IN!!!

[m4a1mustang]

BTW I will present this info to the boys @ the Starbucks meet tomorrow morning.

[Jon@AAMComp]

^ Thanks Steve. Any cars and all 370Zs from the DC/Baltimore metro area are welcome!

[4r3s]

sounds awesome, wish I had an oil cooler...$100 is a lot of money when youre limited by your oil temps

[tooohip]

Originally Posted by 4r3s

sounds awesome, wish I had an oil cooler...$100 is a lot of money when youre limited by your oil temps

It's a 1/4 mile drag strip. You don't need an oil cooler to run that.

[m4a1mustang]

Originally Posted by tooohip

It's a 1/4 mile drag strip. You don't need an oil cooler to run that.

I agree. Just give it some time between runs to stay cool... you've got all day.

[Jon@AAMComp]

Originally Posted by m4a1mustang

I agree. Just give it some time between runs to stay cool... you've got all day.

True. If you can see the Mercedes Benz in the background, most guys do this to keep their temps down. They even have ice bags for sale trackside.




So hopefully this time we'll have more than just this one Z representing!



This car was no slouch though; it was swapped with a 2J from a MKIV Supra, massive turbo kit, built engine, the works. With a 4 speed Auto trans, this car was running consistent single digit times all day. When this car came of the line it was just NASTY! I tried to capture it in the frame, but it's a little out of focus. Too fast!!

[Jon@AAMComp]

And just to add, for anyone who may be interested in attending, we are going to have a small meetup here at the shop in the morning and a caravan down to MIR. I know some of you live in NoVa, and others in Southern MD, and for you guys it would be making a double trip, but if anyone who lives north of 301 is interested in meeting up at the shop and driving down with some of our shop cars, we will have refreshments available here Friday morning. Keep in mind the event is open to anyone, even if you just want to be a spectator.

[m4a1mustang]

Jon, do I need to sign up or register before hand, or do I just show up with $100?

[Jon@AAMComp]

^ No pre-registration required. You can show up with your money and drive! The list is filling up too. Here's the most current list of cars participating next Friday:

1. 930chas- E55
2. motorkas- E55
3. V12Godspeed- EV12 (maybe)
4. Benz-O-Rama- SL600 (maybe)
5. Stephen04E55- S65 and possibly 6.2L Sierra
7. Dodger63- C63
8. Jimmyp- Supra
9. Stephen04E55 friend- Cobra
10. Camdon - Busa, ZR1, 997TT (possibly all 3) +2 friends
15. DerrickE55- Either 997TT or classic mustang
16. jvanbrecht- C63 (maybe)
17. TMC M5- CTS-V
18. GDNF2ET- ?
19. captainjdog- supra
20. supra7tt- supra
21. franksupra- supra
22. SupraWoman98T- supra
23. Nolessthan150- ?
24. Victor@ F&H- Supra (maybe)
25. Supra 404- ZX14?
26. Justin311- MR2 (maybe)
27. JRock637- supra (maybe)
28. blownlt1&c6z- ? + 1 or 2
30. Diabolic8- Evo 8
31. Cardcounter- turbo 328
32. djborya- turbo E30
33. zennone- turbo E30
34. BMWSOB- turbo E30
35. LostMarine- 335
36. Clem- E39 sc M5
37. Captn Mo 703- E92 M3
38. Richardbb85- E92
39. boom- 335
40. bigdog34uz- 335
41. SSDD- 335
42. Highflyr- 335 (maybe)
43. tmaung- 335 (maybe)
44. quickspeed6- 335?
45. Smokedyou1- ?
46. Zeus GT-R- GTR, Evo, or ?
47. GTRchillboy- GTR
48. 2009GTRSS- GTR
49. Kevinw23- GTR
50. AAM- GTR and 370 + possibly others
52. joebva- GTR (maybe)
53. DJ Self- ? (maybe)
54. Bob- GTR
55. Divexxtreme- GT2
56. Blackbenzz- CLK55

[m4a1mustang]

Add me to that list with a 2011 Mustang 5.0

[m4a1mustang]

Friday

[ZCarMan]

Somebody better take some good photos!