Greetings from VIR! What a hell of a weekend so far. Marlon definitely hooked Mazda owners up. There are a lot of RX-8s running as well as Miatas and a few MS3s (Like Cheo's). Tons of giveaways, lots of interaction with the crews and one hell of a parade lap.
I rode with Phen (SATimko) for the parade lap section while Lauri drove my car for the parade laps. It was single file and at a decent speed. Nothing like LRP laps and probably beats almost all LRP laps except one. We came into a shallow "S" section and I told Phen to punch it.. Wow. Just f-ing wow. People were turning heads to look at Phen's angry ass Miata. Too much fun!
The give aways are just too damn cool. I won a Speed Source jersey (wearing it now actually) and there was a raffle for a NASA session for free (Google it). Also on the raffle is a pair of Speed Source pictures with frames that are signed by the drivers, tons of shirts and hats, and a few posters signed by the entire team. Also, we have a few pair of Pilotti shoes to raffle off. From what I see here, I can only imagine what LRP wil be like.
I haven't taken too many pics because I've been helping Marlon coordinate this weekend, but I'll try to get some from people to post. We have wayyyyyy too many cars here and beat the other car clubs by 2 to 1 at least. We have 30 Miatas at least and another 50 Mazdas in our car corral.
As of this posting, we have 9 Mazda owners holding grid flags for the upcoming race.
I won't ruin it with winners and all, but see you all next weekend at the Cape Cod meet!