After 2am now and the poolside party is over at our motel.
Our thanks to Eric for the accommodations at the NEW Motel 6
What a fun day we all had down here in Texas.
I slept in and passed on the Cars and Coffee but heard it was amazing.
We had a really good TMS track tour today and then a most excellent lunch at Babes Chicken.
Tons of Chicken and Chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy and corn and biscuits !!

Once we were all stuffed from lunch back to the motel for some final detailing of the Crossfires and then over to the TMS.
Lined em up and signed the waivers and onto the track.
The pace cars were keeping things slower than any of us would have liked due to a crash earlier in the afternoon before we arrived.
First I rode in with LantanaTX and shot video and then I drove FTroopChief's SRT6 and then took my nephews Porsche Carerra on the track for my final run.
Victor rode with danimal a couple times and had a blast.
Then after all the track time was done back to the motel where a great party began poolside with grilling and other foods and of course plenty of beer etc.

Thanks to all for such a warm welcome down here in Texas.
I met so many of you for the first time and you are all wonderful people.
Victor has really enjoyed himself and is really getting to experience USA fun while here from Sweden on his exchange student program.

My thanks to the efforts of all that made this whole weekend GTG possible.
It was certainly worth the flight down to be here with everyone and be part of all the fun !!
Also thanks to danimal, LantanaTX, and InfernoRedXfire for the rides to and from the airport......and also Jane Bridges and Franc Rauscher for the rides to the track and to lunch and back.

And Char...your a sweetheart with a great sense of humor.
Hope you continue to wash and dry your car with that technique you had described.
I don't believe I've heard that before....lol

Later today (Sunday) some of us are going to the new Cowboys Stadium for a tour of the new modern facility.
I will post up all my pics when I get home.

Gary

 

I would like to thank 4 members for Joining CICCI while here at the TMS GTG !!!
Your applications will be faxed to our BOD and you should be receiving a email to the address you provided with your login info soon.

Welcome and thank you for joining CICCI

 

Well from what I understand, there was a Viper either the day we were there or recently acted up and wrecked his car therefore, they reduced all the speeds. After our run, I did see someone carrying what appeared to be a lower section of a front spoiler which could have been another contributing factor.

Steve

 

This had occurred shortly before we arrived and they went into "rules" mode which limits speeds to about only 70mph
I did hit 100mph on one curve though.

 

Dumb luck! We averaged about 80.

 

Sabrina and I went 120 mph on HWY 121 on the way home

 

The first run was dissappointing compared to the experience in May. I did have a lot more fun on the second run when I was running about mid pack with a '04 Vette. The Vette was in front of me and we would slow down to a crawl and let pack in front get way out there. Just when one of the rear pace cars would try to get up to us we would take off. I hit 110 and we did this twice on each lap. Each time we went down the fornt stretch we were full throtle form the turn four exit until we have to get hard on the brakes entering turn one to avoid slamming into the pack in fornt of us. I spoke to the vette owner after the run and thanked him for his strategy that made it fum for both of us. He was shocked that I was staying with him and was very impressed with how quick my car was. I told him I was just a n/a V6 but those SRT's are really fast!

 

Did you text this as you were going 120???

 

I have posted the few photos I took at the event on my Flickr site.

I have a movie that I'll try to put up soon. I'll have to edit it at work. My machine at home doesn't have the umph.

 

Very nice photos!

 

Nice pics. Midlife, thanks for sharing. I'm looking forward to the video.

 

Nice photos Midlife, thanks for sharing
I just gotta know... Did you post the Smart cars just for FP's benefit?

 

Hey guys and gals, nice meeting the bunch of ya! For me having a Viper truck and totally the black sheep y'all were very welcoming and a great group of folks in general. Being the SRT godfather owning a 10 I've always been interested in the rest of the line. I was introduced with overwhelming varieties of Crossfires including the SRT6 and and a special thanks to Char for inviting me to the party afterwards and the 2am ride in her roadster. Again thank you all and your group represented nicely. Y'all are always welcome to our forum as well if you have anything to learn about the Viper Ram! VTCOA.com or Viper Truck Club of America. Talk to y'all soon

 

Thanks everyone for making the Motel opening a great one. I still feel terrible about the low track speed and don't feel like posting right now. Anyway here is a picture of Larry, the first guest at the new Motel 6

 

Way to go Racehorse (Larry), first guest and a fellow XFire owner.

 

While they did cut the speed way down which was very dissappointing I still had a great time hangin with fellow oweners.

I am not sure I will do laps at TMS again but would like to suggest something much more fun. From time to time Texas World Speeday near College Station and Motor Sports Ranch near Fort Worth put on events for clubs which does not include any pace car.

Texas world Speedway is the most fun as it includes a road course that also uses the high banked turns and front straight away. Motor Sports Ranch is a fairly fast but tight road couse.

 

I just got home from dropping Gary and Victor off at the airport. Jon (OKC-XFR), Danimal, Gary, Victor and myself did the stadium tour. That stadium is over the top. Seams everything in the stadium is the world's biggest.

I would like to thank everyone for coming and making this such a fun event! Even though the speeds at the racetrack were a disappointment, it was still a lot of fun having such a large group of forum members together in one place.

I have lots of photos to edit and will post them up soon.

 

Thanks all for the event. Definitely had a good time despite the low speeds. I saw lots of good lookin' Crossfires out there and got tons of "new-to-me" info. Great to see lots of welcoming people just open to letting me take a look in their cars and allowing lots of dumb questions on my part. I would have stayed for the motel party but the mosquitos were in mass. I'm fragile and don't take to well to west nile.

On a second note, on my way home from the gun show in Dallas, I saw an SSB coupe from Florida on 114 w/ those black Crossfire coupe badges (like mine). Who ever that was, good seeing ya on the road! ^_^

 

Here are the pictures that I just put up on my site. I'm going to scan in the picture that I bought yesterday and post it here too.

 

Victor and I got home to our house at 7:30.
Our flight departed at 4:30 and 3 hours later were home.

Gotta go through all my pics and get them posted.
The Stadium tour was really good.
It's was a nice added attraction for me and Victor for our weekend in Texas.