wrenchedexcess
wrenchedexcess New Reader
2/22/14 1:58 a.m.

Sorry that I have been out of the loop for a while, between the cold, snow,cold and more snow, overtime and a broken water main in front of the house. Something had to be put on the back burner. Now I see that the challenge is back to October. Did hyperfest fall through or is this in addition to the challenge in October. My vacation schedule has to be turned into the paper shufflers by the end of the month so any info would be most helpful.

thanks.

Derick Freese
Derick Freese UltraDork
2/22/14 2:05 a.m.

We're back to Gainesville for this year. There is much speculation as to why, but most of us feel that it would preserve the event as-is and not get mixed in with everything else that happens at Hyperfest.

Karl La Follette
Karl La Follette SuperDork
2/22/14 5:27 a.m.

huh ? Are we back I mean ? Is it true G ville ? my 1 hr ride , start working on Tom's jensen healey man I am going to cut and paste this to the I am feeling good thread if so

moparman76_69
moparman76_69 SuperDork
2/22/14 5:52 a.m.

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/events/1913/

Not sure you need anymore confirmation than this.

Karl La Follette
Karl La Follette SuperDork
2/22/14 6:30 a.m.

DirtyBird222
DirtyBird222 UltraDork
2/22/14 9:04 a.m.

I took my wife and daughter to Hyperfest. Not the most family friendly venue. It was like the zoo at the 12 hours of sebring 10 years ago. Things you'd never want your significant other to see except with the flavor of West Virginians mixed in.

mw
mw Dork
2/22/14 11:42 a.m.
DirtyBird222 wrote: I took my wife and daughter to Hyperfest. Not the most family friendly venue. It was like the zoo at the 12 hours of sebring 10 years ago. Things you'd never want your significant other to see except with the flavor of West Virginians mixed in.

All right. Who wants to go on a GRM trip to hyperfest without SO's?

captdownshift
captdownshift Reader
2/22/14 1:00 p.m.

In reply to mw:

i'll bring the paint

JtspellS
JtspellS Dork
2/22/14 2:26 p.m.
captdownshift wrote: In reply to mw: i'll bring the beer

Fixed it for ya.

motomoron
motomoron SuperDork
2/22/14 11:15 p.m.

Summit Point is an hour-20 from my front door including a coffee stop at Sheetz. And I used to do NASA HPDE then TTC for a few years, Subsequently Hyperfest was generally on the docket.

I can't decide if it's a huge berkeley-story or a colossal E36 M3-show.

I remember being in my M3 track rat trying to inch my way through the motionless scrum of flatbillers, ricers, hillbillies and assorted dirtbags to get from the main paddock over to the Shenandoah circuit to visit friends in the LeMons paddock, and it made me seriously contemplate just running over a bunch of people. Seriously.

And while I've happily left all my stuff sitting out in my paddock spot from Friday morning 'til Sunday night for decades, at Hyperfest people be eyein' your stuff like they're hungry.

I went 2 years ago 'cause I had heat cycles left on a set of Hoosier A6s and the M3 had time left on pads and fluids, so it was cheap. But it was essentially no fun other than a couple half-decent laps when I wasn't hung up in traffic.

I wouldn't miss it if it moved. Or ceased to be.

captdownshift
captdownshift Reader
2/23/14 6:05 a.m.

In reply to JtspellS:

No paint, it's considered female attire there

obxninja
obxninja New Reader
2/23/14 6:12 a.m.

I ran my car in HPDE at Hyperfest a number of times. Last time I was there I had a mechanical issue and had to run into town to pick up a part. It took me 30 minutes to work may way to the gate and exit, and I had to wait 30 minutes in line to get back in.

Motormoron is correct--don't leave your tools laying out in your paddock space during that weekend. Hyperfest is probably more fun as a participant than it is as a driver.

Wally
Wally MegaDork
2/23/14 7:41 a.m.

In reply to captdownshift: Sounds like a good place to put my finger painting skills to use.

captdownshift
captdownshift Reader
2/23/14 9:24 a.m.

And if you guys thinking racing and driving hpde is bad at hyperfest, try instructing. Having a tee shirt made that reads I taught your boyfriend how to drive fast paid off though

wrenchedexcess
wrenchedexcess New Reader
2/23/14 12:07 p.m.

A big thanks to everyone that responded. Now I can turn in my vacation request and have extra time to fix the oil leak in the saturn that sidelined me last year.

DirtyBird222
DirtyBird222 UltraDork
2/23/14 1:34 p.m.

In my experience most of the ricers, flatbrimmers, brotatoe, and the like stayed away from the LeMons event; but, I don't see Hyperfest on the Lemons schedule this year....I'd def go as a spectator with out family!

Sonic
Sonic SuperDork
2/23/14 2:56 p.m.

The hyperfest crowd always stayed away from the lemons side of the paddock, except when some slammed 240sx would get lost and leave quickly! We rolled through hyperfest with our Lemons Boat with several water skiers in tow. The groups of several teenagers all sharing one beer and talking about how drunk they were didn't really know what to make of it.

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