Top five events

[CraigMorrison]

Ok - I was watching the replay of the Spanish GP and over sips on the MaiTai, I was thinking: if you could go to 5 gearhead events regardless of budget what would they be?

So mine are
1: 24 Hours of LeMans
2: Monaco Grand Prix
3: Indy 500
4: Daytona 500
5: Goodwood Festival of Speed - tied with Bonneville Speed Week,


These events have always been on the "things to do before I die list", there are a lot more, but these are "the ones"
So what's yours?


PS- make that "events" not "evens" I guess I should put down the keyboard and return to the MaiTai

[alcino]

1. SilverStateClassic
2. YearOne Event
3. Pikes Peak hill climb
4. SEMA
5. FourWheeler Top Truck Challenge

[shmoov69]

Bristol Night race
Orlando World Street Finals
US Nationals at Indy
Speedweek at Bonneville
Silver State Classic

[Bill Howell]

Bristol Night race
Orlando World Street Finals
US Nationals at Indy
Speedweek at Bonneville
Silver State Classic

Bristol night race? Really? Come go with me sometime. It is a great event.

1) Monaco GP, Top of list no doubt
2) Bonneville
3) Some form of a Gum Ball Rally
4) F1 at Indy
5) Run a Porsche a few laps around the ring.(I can not spell the full name of the track)

[J-Rod]

Bristol night race? Really? Come go with me sometime. It is a great event.

1) Monaco GP, Top of list no doubt
2) Bonneville
3) Some form of a Gum Ball Rally
*****4) F1 at Indy*****
5) Run a Porsche a few laps around the ring.(I can not spell the full name of the track)

As long as we don't have a repeat of last years race.

/rollseyes

[Bill Howell]

Sadly, I fear that will end up being the thing that kills that race. Bernie and crew can not get their act together and it really came to a head at the US event last year.I would really rather see it on a road coarse in one of the big citys, but I know that will never happen again, even though there was talk about it in Long Beach last year. The rpm's those cars turn are just insane, and I would love to be right at the fence to hear them go by.

[J-Rod]

Heh, I was at the Monterey Historics a couple years back when Ferarri was the Marquee manufacturer. They Reubens 2003 car there, along with a test driver, tearin ass around laguna seca. Being at the bottom of the corkscrew on his parade lap, when he bounced it off the rev limiter.....a divine experience, I tell you.

It's time for Bernie to pass the torch. He comes from a different time, a time where his remarks to Danica wouldn't have been outta place.....

But this is 2006. Come on now.

[shmoov69]

Bristol night race? Really? Come go with me sometime. It is a great event.

Don't tease me like that!! Do you go every year?

[Bill Howell]

Yep! Season tickets, row 9 aisle seat start/finish, reserved section! I have had them for about 5 years now. However, there are no bad seats at Bristol, racing the way it ought to be!

[CraigMorrison]

There's nothing like the sound of a V10 running to 18,000rpm! I was able to go to the F1 race when I was in Australia a few years back and the first time I heard those cars run it took about 3 hours for the goosebumps to go away! Took a ton of pics and managed to get some really great autographs. A very cool weekend.

[1sick65]

[quote=Bill Howell]Yep! Season tickets, row 9 aisle seat start/finish, reserved section! I have had them for about 5 years now. However, there are no bad seats at Bristol, racing the way it ought to be


No doubt, Bristol night race is awesome. Last year I was able to get hot passes and watch the entire race from Dale Jr's pits. That had to be one of my top five.

[Matt]

For my taste at least...

In no particular order...
1. Silver State Classic.
2. F1 GP at Monaco.
3. 24 Hours of Daytona
4. Historic Trans-Am at Laguna Seca.
5. A track day for myself (pay and go.. can do damn near anytime) at Nurburgring.

Great topic man.

Edit: The 3 coolest gear head experiences I've had so far
1. NHRA race in Phoenix. The top fuel dragsters blew my mind.
2. World Ford in St. Louis 3 years ago.... total blast.
3. Aka Rally (one of those gumball things... actually the one that was on MTV)

[MarkM66]

Goodwood Festival of Speed looks really cool to me.

[CraigMorrison]

Yes, and Goodwood is only about an hour's drive from my in-laws house. Just need to get the timing right on a visit sometime.

[CarlC]

I saw it too Craig. I let my 5 year old son stay up late to watch since he too was diggin' it. Scary fast, no time to rest, and less than a puckered butt-hair between the tires and the walls. Davidson's crew must be bummed after his crash.