Lapeer Drag Day - Gauging Interest for late April

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RonPorter

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Well, per my records, the last one was in the Fall of 2007!!

We ran these for once, sometimes twice, a year from about 2000 to 2007. We tried to schedule them in Spring or Fall when the weather is cooler, and we had "normal" gas available.

Lapeer was going to open Saturday 4/7, but I see it's been bumped up to 3/31: http://www.lapeerdragway.com/schedule.html

Anyway, I was looking at later April, as 4/8 is Easter.

The next three weeks are good, although I would rather keep it in April for the better weather, and I am "tentatively" planned to start back to work in May.

The April Saturdays are: 4/14, 4/21, and 4/28.

There is a former Best Western in Lake Orion, with a bar/restaurant across the parking lot. Now called G's Pizzeria, we had dinner there years back when it was called the Wooden Eagle (the log cabin place).

There is also a hotel a few miles east of the former Big Buck that has East Side Mario's (bar/restaurant....good spot), then a new place next door, called Clubhouse BFD: http://chbfd.com/ A sports bar with 40 beers on tap. Ryan Dudek & I need to check it out....but it sounds promising!!

Anyway, just thought I would put it out there and see if there's interest.

EDIT: "40" beers on tap!!
 
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I replied in SHO related, but I might as well here too..... Depending on the day, I'd like to make it!
 

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Although I prefer a road course over drag strip, I might be in. I'm only an hour and a half away anyways. Waterford Hills' first open track day is April 29th BTW, and I plan on going to that as well, if anyone is interested (I don't mean to derail this thread though).
 

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Keep us updated. I may be up for a road trip. Mapquested it.....about a 3 hour drive for me. Maybe I will invest in a good radar detector and see if can shave some time off.
 

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Found out that the 21 and 28 are no good for me. But maybe the 14th if I have the car out by then and by looking at the long term it should be out then.
 

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Found out that the 21 and 28 are no good for me. But maybe the 14th if I have the car out by then and by looking at the long term it should be out then.

Vote in my Poll over in SHO Related. I prefer the 14th myself.

May start work again, and the 14th "may" be my only shot.
 

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Although I prefer a road course over drag strip, I might be in. I'm only an hour and a half away anyways. Waterford Hills' first open track day is April 29th BTW, and I plan on going to that as well, if anyone is interested (I don't mean to derail this thread though).

As it turns out I'm 3rd in line for the 14th off and probably cannot go to Lapeer. I am however VERY interested in hitting up Waterford. PM me with info... cost etc.
 

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Sounds like a challenge!

:naughty:

It's actually a toss up cause I haven't ran my SHO at the drags in years and I've done a lot to it since then, as well as put it on a diet, so I'm curious what it'll run, but on the other hand I really wanna run my new stang and see how crappy of a driver/shifter I really am compared to the times the mags have gotten LOL :3gears:
 

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