Just came back from our mancation late Friday. 2000+ truck driving miles and 1000+RS driving miles. Exhausted but satisfied!
I picked up Erik and loaded his MKI Orange 997RS behind mine in my 44' gooseneck late on Thursday so that we were ready to go early Friday for the 10 hour drive to Road ATL.
Took his Cayenne TT home because it was more "convenient"
then triving the truck and trailer home.
We left last Friday at around 9AM and made it through the gates at Road ATL at 7PM just in time to drop the trailer and unload the cars and headed to the hotel after some beers at the pub at the Chateau.
The Chin event ran like clock work as usual, starting with drivers meeting at 7:30AM.
Great day, beautiful weather and ran some good laps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKV1fQD80Yw.
Unfortunately a wreck and black flags, but still because I was instructing I was allowed to drive in all run groups and I did. Basically I was either in my students car, a 996GT3 or driving myself ;-)
My best time was 1:357 (Camera did not work) on Saturday, so I was hopeful to run a 1:34 on a cold Sunday morning, I ran much faster, but could not post a better time due to too much traffic.
We met a bunch of GT3's and they took us to a great reataurant in Atlanta Saturday night.
Mike, Randy, Rick, Lewis and Dave, who is impressively fast in his 996GT3! At one point I was all proud that i could catch him, turned out there were 2 in the car and Seth Thomas was driving instead of Dave
Monday morning we met up and got a tour at the new very exciting AMP facility and continued our Mountain run, with some of the crazy locals leading the way, avoiding a Police Road block and impressing and terrifying some of the locals
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Dave put together a very cool video:
http://www.youtube.com/user/993DT?feature=mhum
Pretty full Monday; We ran 400 miles! Unbelievable fantastic to run with 10 or so GT3's through the mountains. The sound and speed was awesome, the views breath taking.
A bucket list item for sure.
Tuesday we loaded up our cars and headed for VIR, as did Rick and Randy and we made it there just when the gates opened at 5:30. We unloaded the cars and headed for the Tavern for beer and food and met some more GT3 drivers.
VIR was great, the Dave Murry events are not to be missed for the advanced drivers. Tons and tons of track time, all day open track. I emptied tank after tank chasing my previous best lap time but never got it because my worn out tires and brake pads but had a lot of fun trying!! In the end I corded my tires and ran out of pads to the point I ran of the track in T1.
A mancation to remember and thanks to all my friends for coming along, meeting and show us around, etc. etc.