I wont be home until mid to late May, so June us the earliest the car will be ready to go anywhere.

Any of you going to MAP at BIR? I'll be there all weekend and running open road course for sure.

Sorry if there are already threads about these questions, the forums dont agree with my work computer so I just went straight to the chat thread.

 

Is that the Powercruise? I think a few of us were talking about going up there and running the road course.

 

I guess I dont know if its called the powercruise? We call it MAP Proving Grounds here.

Home of MAP's Proving Grounds

 

should all we drink Saturday???

 

yes ^

and more info ab out this road event!

 

"BIR" = Brainard International Speedway, its not an event.

Powercruise and "MAP Proving grounds" are 2 different events, both huge though! I wanted to make Powercruise last year. I heard it was absolutely insane, but got roped into going to a cabin 1 hours from the track and never got to the actual track.

 

I was pulled over doing 77 in a 55 on the highway in Atlanta in a minivan a couple years back. He knocked it down to 14 over. I tried paying it online when I got back to Minnesota, but per Georgia law anyone under the age of 21 has to appear in court for any speeding violation. I didn't know that until after the date was up to pay. I had to pay for a plane ticket to fly down there and back ($450) and I stayed there for 4 days to explore Atlanta. After $350 for the hotel and $150 for the ticket and $100 failure to appear in court fee, it ended up being an expensive 4 days. Well at least now I don't have a warrant out for my arrest in Georgia.... If only I showed the cop my military ID....

 

Haha, yeah my Army buddy has gotten out of many tickets because of that. Sometimes he doesn't even get warnings or lectures after being pulled over, they just say thanks for your service, you can go.

 

you have to be careful when trying to use a military ID, especially in the south with the amount of military there. In MN there are a lot of police officers that are also enlisted soldiers, or that were at one point enlisted. I had to show my military ID once because someone walked off with my drivers license on accident. He tried to pin me with using it as a get-out-of-jail-free card and say I was being disrespectful to the military and he should contact my 1SG.

In my unit we have a Sniper who is also a Sheriff back home. He gets soldiers speeding all the time that are going to be late for formation. He takes his time and says 'you should have planned accordingly to be 10min early like everyone else.'

 

thanks for everyone that came over last night...tevi, tina, brandon, emad & chris!! hope you guys like hookah and ryan's drinks lol...we should do it again sometime!!!

 

yeah next time hopefully i dont have to drive, cause those mojitos were effin good. as were the damn snacks!

 

not one person in my troop has been given a speeding ticket in MN. Cops love us up here. Most of the time we are speeding going to Camp Ripley.

 

and hearing about how good they are were all morning is making me wish I could have been there even morrrrrrrrrre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thanks for having us. Those mojitos were Da Bomb!!!!!!!! would've had at least one more if I wasn't the DD for the night you guys have a nice place, Tina is still talking about it.

 

Tevi....What is the ETA!????????