TX2K10 - GTR Nationals, Road Racing/DE, Dyno Day, Drag Racing, 60-130, Night Meet Options

[houstonT]

I already know many of you...but for those of you who don't know me, my name is Peter Blach and I have been the organizer of the TX2K - Supra Nationals series for the past 11 years! I purchased my GT-R a few months back and started to have conversations with Chuck_H about getting NAGTROC to come on board and help me put on a GTR-Nationals event alongside the Supra-Nationals event. In summary, this event will be in Houston, TX on March 18, 19, 20, and 21, 2010.....the event will consist of road racing/driver's education, dyno day (we have 2 dyno's, an AWD dyno and single wheel drive dyno side by side), drag racing, a 60-130 event and a night meet. This will be the 11th year for me to put this event on and I want to turn this into an annual GTR National event that is as big as the Supra event. This type of event is the ONE you plan on going to every year and I would hope that others that have come to the event will chime in to help support the validity and overall feel of TX2K events.

So far, NAGTROC has committed to being a sponsor of TX2K10 - GTR Nationals. I have communicated with other vendors on this forum and have verbal committment from 2 others on this board (I will post their involvement as soon as they 100% confirm their support).

Thursday March 18, 2010 - Road Racing/Driver's Education at Grandsport Speedway

The road racing/driver's education event for TX2K10 will be held at Grandsport Speedway.

We will be running the 1.4 mile long Mako Circuit:



Lap of the track:

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Grand-S...y-in_157528.htm

Grandsport Speedway is approximately 1 hour from the host hotel (60 miles):



From the host hotel take I-10 East towards Houston. Stay on I-10 east for approximately 4 miles and exit Beltway 8 and travel South (go right). Stay on Beltway 8 for approximately 30 miles until you get to I-45. Please note that Beltway 8 is a pay toll. Exit I-45 and travel South. You will stay on I-45 for approximately 18 miles. Stay on I-45 towards Galveston. Exit on Exit 15, continue straight through the light staying right onto FM 2004 that runs parallel to the dog track. Continue down FM 2004 for about 5 miles right through Hitchcock until you see four large concrete pillars on your left. The track is behind these pillars. About one half of a mile past Blimp Base Rd turn left through the gate beside the GrandSport Speedway sign. You are now on the new site of GrandSport Speedway.

Gates Open: 8:00 am

Mandatory Driver's Meeting: 8:30 am

First Cars On Track: 9:00 am

Cost per Car: $180 via cash, check or MO. If you wish to send me payment, please PM me and I will respond with my address. You can also use paypal...paypal $186 to pblach@att.net (NON REFUNDABLE - however if your plans change you can sell your spot to someone else). No charge for spectators. Also, I am working on transponder details, stay tuned...

Each driver will get ATLEAST 2 hours of track time...

No charge for spectators.

Classes and Format:

Beginner - if you've never run a road course before or if you feel like you need an instructor in your car to teach you the track. It will be up to the instructor to allow you to run alone and to decide if you are qualified enough to do so.

Advanced - if you have 3 previous SCCA or other sanctioned body road course/driver's education events under your belt. This class is also for those that would like a transponder and would like to be part of the time attack event.

LASTLY, ALL ADVANCED DRIVER'S WILL ALSO NEED TO VOLUNTEER 1 HOUR TO INSTRUCTING BEGINNERS IN THE MORNING.

Time Attack Details:
At the end of the day, those who have paid for a transponder (info coming) will have a chance to run the time attack. The fastest 5 cars will battle it out at the end of the day for the time attack 1st, 2nd and 3rd place trophies.

OK, I think I've covered everything here, please feel free to post any questions and please get your money in ASAP!!!!

Entrants Paid To Date (11/11/09) - Maximum of 20 Beginners and 20 Advanced (40 total)

WE NEED TO HAVE 20 PPL PAID AND CONFIRMED BY 12/1/09 FOR THIS EVENT TO STAY BOOKED!!!!

1. Khib Kugler - Beginner - Nissan GTR
2. Brent Jackson - Advanced - Nissan GTR

Friday March 19 Dyno Day at Lonestar Motorsports Park

The dyno day will be held at Lonestar Motorsports Park (www.lonestarmotorsportspark.com) for the third year in a row. The dyno day schedule will work the same way it's worked over the last five years. First come first serve... I will be at Lonestar at 8:20 am on Friday and will be taking sign ups for the dyno day that morning. Sponsors will get a guaranteed spot but the rest of the spots will be open to anyone. The first car will hit the dyno at 9:00 am and we will dyno cars every 20 minutes until 5:00 pm. In addition, this year, we will be running 2 side by side dyno's. One will be an AWD dyno, the other our standard RWD dyno.

Cost: dyno cost is FREE, cost to enter gates for the day is $15/person and this goes to Lonestar payable at the gate.
Food: concessions will be open all day

Directions from the Host Hotel:
From the Hotel, take I-10 WEST and stay on I-10 for approximately 40 miles. Exit 713 Beckendorf Road and follow the signs to Lonestar (once you exit to the right, you will take a left and onto a bridge over I-10, then you will turn right onto the access road on the other side of I-10 and follow to Lonestar).



Saturday March 20 - Test-n-Tune, 2 Rounds of Qualifying and 60 to 130 Event

The Drag Racing event will be at Lonestar Motorsports Park (www.lonestarmotorsportspark.com) for the third year in a row. This year, we will once again bring back the "drag racing for 2 days option". Here are the details:

The track will open at 10:00 am on Saturday morning. The track will go hot at 11:00 am and drag racing will continue until 5:00 pm. The schedule on this day will consist of test-n-tune, 2 rounds of qualifying for the next days eliminations and the 60-130 competition.

Cost: spectators will pay $20 to LMP on Saturday. Racers will be able to purchase a "2-day tech card" on Saturday (NON-REFUNDABLE if you break on Saturday) for $80 (in addition to the $20 cost to enter). If a racer only wants to run on Sunday, the tech cards will be the same price as last year, $45 (in addition to the $20 cost to enter). Lastly, if a racer wants to run the 60 to 130 event, they will have to pay $35 (in addition to the $20 cost to enter).

Food: concessions will be open all day

60 to 130 Classes:

Street Tire Class - this includes all DOT approved, grooved street tires. R-compound tires are also included in this class.

Drag Radial Tire Class - this includes all drag radials in any size.

UNLIMITED Class - this includes all cars outfitted with slicks (ET Streets, ET Drags, Hoosier Slicks, etc...)

Sunday March 21, 2010 - Drag Racing Test-n-Tune and Eliminations

The Drag Racing event will be at Lonestar Motorsports Park (www.lonestarmotorsportspark.com) for the fourth year in a row. This year, we will once again bring back the "drag racing for 2 days option". Here are the details:

On Saturday, the track will go hot at 11:00 am and drag racing will continue until 5:00 pm. All runs on Saturday will be test-n-tune and/or qualifying runs. The next day (Sunday), the gates will open at 8:00 am and the track will go hot at 9:00 am. From 9:00 am until 4:00 pm we will have 1 round of qualifying and eliminations. Schedule will be as follows:

10:00 am - qualifying pass 1 (test-n-tune after)
12:00 pm - eliminations round 1 (test-n-tune after)
1:30 pm - eliminations round 2 (test-n-tune after)
2:45 pm - eliminations round 3 (test-n-tune after)
3:45 pm - final round eliminations

There will be a dedicated lane for test-n-tune ALL DAY LONG.

Cost: spectators will pay $20 to LMP on Sunday. Racers will be able to purchase a "2-day tech card" on Saturday (NON-REFUNDABLE if you break on Friday night) for $80 (in addition to the $20 cost to enter). If a racer only wants to run on Sunday, the tech cards will be the same price as last year, $45 (in addition to the $20 cost to enter). These prices are the SAME as last year.

Food: concessions will be open all day

GTR Classes:
Stock Class - no ECU reflash allowed, must be on stock tune, must be on stock turbos, other bolt ons ok (exhaust, y-pipe)
Modified Class - ECU reflash and bolt ons allowed, only prohibited bolt on is aftermarket turbo's
UNLIMITED Class - no rules

Street Car Class
This is a class that GTR's can run in if you all would like (aside from the GTR Specific classes)

This is the same class we had for the first time in 2009...it will be open to ALL MAKES/MODELS. This class will have a handsome payout and should be very interesting. This class will be administered by the same sponsor new to our event last year...ARD. Thank you to Owen Priest and ARD for helping me put this class together. This class can and should include GTR's, Vettes, Porsche's, Vipers, Supra's, Camaro's, Mustang's, etc...

The rules:

--all entrants will be required to go on a 20-30 mile cruise and will have to stay behind a lead car and in front of an end car...any participant that falls out of that line for any reason during the cruise will be disqualified and entry fee will not be refunded...the cars that fall out can stay and test-n-tune all day...speeds on the cruise will be mostly highway and will be in the 60 mph range...
--the cruise will leave the front gates at Lonestar at 11:30 am...just after qualifying pass 1 and back in enough time to run qualifying pass 2 if wanted
--carpet, both front seats and door panels required
--inspection sticker required (in the state you live in)
--radio that works is required (which means you need speakers too)
--stock suspension required (all suspension components must be located in the stock locations)
--no tire rule
--no fuel rule
--no power adder rule

This post has been edited by houstonT: Jan 29 2010, 11:52 AM

[houstonT]

Please feel free to post questions/comments and give us suggestions as to what the drag classes should be. This event has ALWAYS been about the people that show up and participate and I would love to get your thoughts/input. I will be posting hotel info in 2 seconds...

Peter

[houstonT]

The official TX2K10 hotel is Omni Houston Hotel Westside (same hotel as last year). The hotel is located approximately 25 minutes from Lonestar Motorsports Park and very close to the night meet location. It's off I-10 and is very accessible from the interstate.

Rates - SAME as last year
Wednesday night March 17: $119
Thursday night March 18: $119
Friday night March 19: $99
Saturday night March 20: $99

Reservation Phone Number
1-800-THE-OMNI (1-800-843-6664)
YOU MUST BOOK YOUR ROOM BY MARCH 5TH OR YOU WILL NOT GET THE DISCOUNTED RATE LISTED ABOVE. THEIR NORMAL RATE IS $289/NIGHT!!!!!

Omni Address
13210 Katy Freeway
Houston, Texas 77079

Reservation Instructions
When you call to reserve, you MUST use the confirmation number "TX2K10 Car Show" and you must tell them it's for the Omni Houston Hotel Westside

Benefits
--Classy hotel
--Nice rooms
--Used to a "loud" crowd (they host a Harley Convention every year)
--Safe part of town
--Lots of parking for rigs/trailers
--Covered parking garage
--Security onsite
--20 to 25 minutes from the track (Lonestar)

Pictures

[Chuck_H]

Will be there!

[underpressure]

No prize for the trifecta?
Highest placing road course/drag/dyno combined score.

[Limey Racing]

I'm in!

The Dallas/Ft. Worth Supra club will be running a group convoy again this year from Dallas to the meet hotel on Wed. March 17th. Anyone driving in from out of town is welcome to meet us up in Dallas and take part in the roll out. There is normally a fairly large group. Last year we had 40 cars, this year looks to be an even larger roll out!


Arrival at the hotel is followed immediately by the 4th annual roll-in parking lot party. It was pretty crazy last year...

Ron

This post has been edited by Limey Racing: Oct 22 2009, 02:12 PM

[Sharif@Forged]

Very excited about this event, after speaking with Peter. Forged Performance will be a major sponsor, and looking forward to meeting some new GT-R owners!

[JOTECH]

You know we're in Peter. Proud to sponsor ya!

Kenny

[houstonT]

I just got confirmation from AMS, they are on board as sponsors and they are bringing cars...

Kenny with Jotech, thank you my friend, I have you down as a supporter and sponsor of the event...

Sharif and Forged Performance, LOVE having you on board as well as a sponsor...

and last but NOT least, NAGTROC, thanks for the supporting this event.

TO EVERYONE ELSE...

Give this event a try, you will NEVER miss another event once you come. This is truly an amazing event.

Underpressure - you must have either been to a TX event or have read about one in the past????? Another piece of information forthcoming has to do with the TX2K Ultimate Street Car championship. You will be awarded points for the RR/DE event, dyno day, drag and 60-130.....the winning car takes home $1,000 and a trophy for being the ULTIMATE STREET CAR. Stay tuned, details will be posted often on this thread!

Peter

[houstonT]

I just got word that SSP is on board as an official sponsor of TX2K10....



Peter

[2jz-gtr]

OMG! This event is going to be a blast, i guess i have to bring both cars down this time to support the event .
Thank you very much to all the sponsors of this event and Peter for making the first biggest GTRs event of the year . Im looking forward meeting all of you.
Once again THANK YOU

Tri Nguyen

[houstonT]

This thing is growing out of control....I just got a phone call from Limey Racing, they have just committed to coming on board to be a sponsor of TX2K10!!!!!!
Peter

[DocNrock]

This sounds awesome! Thanks for giving plenty of notice.

[Neoseven]

This one is kind of a no brainer. Have GT-R, will travel. We were talking a few months ago about having some sort of GT-R nationals somewhere mid country. I think there was talk about somewhere in the midwest, but this is close enough for me. Looks like this will be much fun. I'll be there.

[Se7enGTR]

nice. i will try to be there as well.

[Reepur]

I'll be there PETE, FO SHO

[houstonT]

I always try to post details as soon as possible to give ppl lead time to get off work, make plans, etc... This is a one of a kind event and I hope to see many of you out there.

2 updates:

1. There will be a 40 car limit for the road race/driver's education event. Please hurry and sign up b4 the spots fill. They tend to go in bulk all at the same time.

2. I will have drag classes updated/posted here this week, stay tuned!

Peter

[Neoseven]

I always try to post details as soon as possible to give ppl lead time to get off work, make plans, etc... This is a one of a kind event and I hope to see many of you out there.

2 updates:

1. There will be a 40 car limit for the road race/driver's education event. Please hurry and sign up b4 the spots fill. They tend to go in bulk all at the same time.

2. I will have drag classes updated/posted here this week, stay tuned!

Peter

Limit of 40 for beginners and limit of 40 for advanced or combined?

[B.McKissick]

Sounds like its going to be a HUGE event. Im gonna try and catch a flight out of Cookeville, TN to shoot some if Im not too busy in school lol. Gonna have to have some fun somehow ;)

[houstonT]

Neoseven - 40 TOTAL, 20 beginner and 20 advanced...

B.McKissick - this will be huge, bring your car! You will regret it if you don't!

Peter