conepirate

Tuesday August 11th, ThunderDrift will be holding a very special fulltrack drift event at Thunderhill Raceway in Willows, CA.

This event is very special in number of ways. We're doing a hawaiian-shirt day, so everyone bring out your crazy hawaiian shirts! Also, there have been numerous requests for a special AE86-only fulltrack event at thunderhill, so I'm offering a special discount to AE86 owners to see how many will come out. If it's successful, we'll do an ALL-hachi event in 2010.

This event will also be a brilliant opportunity for those of you who are drifting in, and spectating at Formula D at Evergreen to hit an awesome drift event on your way home. Thunderhill Raceway is conviniently located to the entire west coast! 10hrs south of evergreen, 10hrs west of Miller Motorsports park, and 10hrs north of Spring Valley and WSIR.

As at all TD fulltrack events, a grip session will be provided for those who are interested in gripping a world-class road course. Be sure you choose the grip option when completing the online-registration form.



Car/Driver Requirements:

- No leaks of any kind

- Battery tiedown must be stock or better. (No duct-tape/zipties/or other janky crap)

- Interior Safety Gear/Roll Protection must be stock or better.

*** If you have a convertible, please call for more info. You will be subject to further safety requirements.

- Helmets must be SA2000, M2000 or newer.

- Closed Toe Shoes, No sleeveless shirts.


***ALL ASPECTS OF TECH (INCLUDING THOSE NOT MENTIONED) ARE SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE EVENT CHAIRMAN.***

Entry Fee is:

$200 per driver

$180 per driver w/hawaiian shirt

$160 per AE86 driver w/hawaiian shirt



Thunderhill's 15-turn 3-mile road course features oncamber and offcamber banked turns, lots of elevation changes, and arguably the best 5-turn linkable section in the western US. Come enjoy drifting of epic proportions combined with some great hawaiian festivities.

conepirate

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conepirate

Attention Drifters! There has been a major change! The event is no longer on Monday August 10th, it will be held on TUESDAY AUGUST 11TH!

It's my fault. I had a communication error with thunderhill, and the monday-date went to a group of motorcyclists. My sincerest apologies to those of you who already requested monday off of work for this event.

To those of you who did, and to those of you who are coming down from FD Evergreen, I reccommend you take your time and have a relaxed drive to the track on monday. We'll have camping at the track monday night, and we'll be having a party of sorts in the main bulding of thunderhill complete with a projector, so we can play option videos, FNF, or even videogames. I'm going to arrange a dinner that evening as well, so please come and enjoy the shindig.


I repeat, the event has been moved to TUSEDAY AUGUST 11th.

rob.ok

Drift and grip never mixes well. I like to watch but I refuse to drive on a slow ass track that has tons of rocks, mud, and dirt all over it from drifters spinning out and dragging it back onto the surface. Its a waste of my time and money.

Sorry dude but that's the truth. Good luck with the event.

conepirate

bah. learn to drift then. come spin off the course and throw dirt everywhere WITH us.

plus, you wouldn't be going fast anyway... you drive an S2k!

rob.ok

Not fast.......I beg to differ. Tell me your fastest time and I'll beat it (if I haven't already).

conepirate

hahaha that's okay bud, I don't need to prove myself to you.

I was merely saying that S2000's are inferior vehicles, and that frequently the drivers have an inflated sense of what caliber car they actually have.

want to know specifics? ask me. I prepped/campaigned an AP2 S2k in SCCA's T2 and T3 classes for a number of years.


oh ya btw... you shouldn't take times at trackdays... it's dangerous. Get a race-car.

rob.ok

You talk a big talk but simply by your comment....inferior...its more than evident that you don't know what your talking about. Since when did a double wishbone suspension & a 50/50 weight distribution become an out dated chassis design in motorsports? Its basic design and fundamentals are by far more relevant to motorsports applications than almost all of your cheap and affordable track worthy cars whether they are old or new.

I'm assuming your talking about the Butte Collage s2k right? That's the only one I know that was running for a while....I followed the car and teams progress. It qualified at like a 2:09.4 or something really close to that. The rules in those classes are so restrictive that its no wonder that you can't see through the smoke. Besides I thought that was a much bigger team that was involved....


Data acquisition is everything! How can you measure your own progress as a driver as well as tune the suspension, alignment, aero and so on without data? Timing is one of the most important factors that needs to be considered when your collecting data. Driving a car at its limits is very dangerous and it should not be taken lightly. I've always found that the guys that are continuously collecting data are always by far much safer and more aware of their surroundings than drivers that are just there to have "fun".

We see things for different sides of the street that for sure........

BTW my car is more or less a race car. It should be ready for ITE next season.







You not generating the interest you were looking for. Besides this is a commercial post. Why don't you become a sponsor with s2ki if you want to sell spots to your events???? This should be removed. Where are the admins at

conepirate

yeah, meh... I really don't care if this thread gets removed.... this has been a terrible promotional experience thus far.

Yes, the BCM honda.

btw... you say double wishbone suspension which it DOES have... you fail to mention that the S2k has less than 1 degree of camber gain throughout the entire travel of the rear suspension. I'd say that's pretty weak.

btw, ITE is weak too. Just another money race, only slightly more advanced than the time-attack garbage that's been going around. Step into GT or Prepared where it takes REAL driving and I think you'd get a shock.

PS - Rylan, Kibort, and Bradfield are HELLA cool dudes. No disrespect to them with the ITE comment. I think they're in the class for different reasons thought

btw, I'm at thunderhill almost 7 days a week. In a totally non-confrontational way, I'd like to invite you to have an educated argument about this stuff with me in person sometime. it'd be fun!

conepirate

Attention all participants. Registration is now closed, but the event is not full. If you still want to drive, the non pre-regged price is $220 cash at the track.

THIS IS AUGUST AT THUNDERHILL! it WILL be very hot. Remember to wear sunscreen and drink plenty of water! t-hill has 2 big permanent canopies, so everyone can get shelter under there... NO TRAILERS ALLOWED UNDERNEATH THE CANOPY! There is a limited amount of space, and we want it filled with people, not trailers. The only trailer that will be parked under the canopies is Luke's, and that's because it'll be the official party-spot monday night.

THE DRIVERS MEETING WILL BE AT 8:45AM SHARP
We want to have a hot course at 9:00AM, so NO LATE-COMERS will be tolerated. I'm absolutely serious about this, if you miss the drivers meeting, you don't drive.

Making the drivers meeting should be very easy, because we're inviting you all to enjoy an evening at the track including watching F&F on a big-screen, hawaiian-style hospitality, and camping afterwards. Everyone is welcome to show up whenever they want on Monday, but will only be allowed inside the park once the current day's event is over at 5:00PM.

THE SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY IS AS FOLLOWS
(we'll have paper-versions of this available for you at the track)

08:45 - Drivers Meeting
09:00 - Grip
09:25 - Beginner Drift
09:50 - Expert Drift
10:15 - Grip
10:40 - Beginner Drift
11:05 - Expert Drift
11:30 - Grip

11:55 - LUNCH

12:55 - Grip
01:20 - Beginner Drift
01:45 - Expert Drift
02:10 - Grip
02:35 - Beginner Drift
03:00 - Expert Drift
03:25 - Grip
03:50 - Beginner Drift
04:15 - Expert Drift
04:40 - END

We're left with 20-min at the end of the day, maybe we'll do something fun with that time. I've got a few ideas...

PASSENGERS will be $15, and must be at least 18yrs old.

SPECTATORS (EVERYONE not driving) will be $5 at the gate.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to call me. I'll be online very sporadically between now and the event, so if it's important, be sure to call. I'm in Portland right now on my way home from FD Seattle!

-Geoff

530.559.2554