For me, it's a long trip... but if there are enough people going, I'll go for the drive so I can put some faces to names.
40rhs driving for 4minutes racing

need a co-driver?

I'll be there driving my girlfriend's car in FS ... and she'll be there driving somebody else's car in FS.



Pat

I guess we need to talk as we get closer.
I know it's far, but where is Topeka... a local guy told me it was 40hrs drive, back and forth.

I'm thinking of going, I just need to score a co-drive (no laughing, Karen!) in FS.
I don't want to drive my car (toasted diff, cracked exhaust manifold, shot bushings, loose front hubs ...... )

Why don't you talk to Frank? I'm sure he'd love to codrive with you!

Like Pat said, I'll be there, driving someone else's car while he drives my black car. The really stupid thing is that someone else is asking me about driving my green car, so I could possibly have two cars out there, and not be driving either one of them!

Karen

Probably not this year. I still have more things to do to the car before it's ready for the Nationals. I'm already coming up with a list of "to do" items for the winter.

But who knows, we'll see.

City to city it is over 1400mi. Forbes Field/SCCA HQ is S of Topeka about 4 miles.

Try mapquest's driving directions to Topeka KS.

First off no way is it 40 hours, I mapquest.com'ed from Montreal, QC to Topeka, KS and it said 22 hours and 1419 miles. Nationals is a lot more then just 6 runs, the people, parties, and stuff make it a very fun social event. Last year was my first Nationals and while I got the snot beat out of me in the Solo 2 Nat's I did OK for me time wise in the ProSolo Finale (that end slolam was still very tight ). I'm getting married in October, so I have to use my vacation for the honeymoon instead of Nat's but I'm going back to Nat's next year and running 4 ProSolo's, so I can run in the Finale too. Thing that kills me is my fiancee is having her High school reunion in Kansas a week before the Finale this year, to bad I couldn't just stay a week longer.

I have to come back... so it's x2

OK didn't consider both way's. It's an easy drive, when I came back from Topeka I drove 1150 miles in one day towing the car behind me.

Maybe you can rent them like Mark Chiles does with the Minis. Of course, I get a cut since I'm helping to set up the black car.

Pat

I asked you to try to get me a co-drive in a Z06 lol

I guess I'll just have to wait a couple of years when I take museum delivery of my C6 Z06

I can't make it either, things are in the works....

...see you in '05, Steve!

You need to come over to F1 Outdoors next week Jeff!

I'll be there again for some unknown reason driving one of the dinosauars

Guys, I don't know if I mentioned this before, but I work for the Ritz-Carlton (which is owned by Marriott, which ahs a hotel near the finals!). If I can get an idea (and some kind of informal commitment) of how many people are going, I may be able to set up a group rate at the Residence Inn (or Courtyard, can't remember which it is). As of a couple weeks ago, their asking rate was somewhere around $100 - I could probably get a group rate nearer $75 (no promises). The more people that commit, the better rate I can negotiate!!

I think there's both a Courtyard and a Residence Inn in Topeka. In any event, it would be cool to have a bunch of f-bodies all at one spot.

Karen

well, I signed up in F-stock driving an '02 Z28, not my '94 LT1.
We're not even sure which tires we'll be using. Either a fresh set of the new 710's or a fresh set of A3S03's. Gonna do a test 'n' tune event next month to figure that out. The thing about the 710's is with almost no seat time I do not know what the optimum setup is (air pressures etc).

Which hotels are the frrax.com members staying?

well, I made reservations at the
Fairfield Inn by Marriott 1530 sw Westport Dr (off of Wannamaker) for a double at $80/night, a number of our local members will be staying there.