Daytona, FL. SWARM!

Well Rats!

The best laid plans of mice and men:......

I wrote to Tanner Foust and told him of ou plans to Swarm Daytona for the Red Bull Global Rallycross race in August and that we would have quite a few Beetles there. I then asked him if the Beetles would be racing. Here is his reply:

Hey Chuck,

That sounds awesome. Unfortunately the Beetles are not expected to be racing by Daytona.

The good news is VW Motorsports is putting a lot of time in the development of them and they will be a force when unleashed!

Best,
Tanner

So as it stands now, We are still going to go. I don't care if it's a Beetle now or not. I'll pay the $35.00 to watch the VW Polos kick the crap outta the Hundais and Subarus and Fords!

We will be booking our room in Daytona for Friday night in a couple days. We will let everyone know where we will be staying. Plans are still to meet in the morning and get to the race entrance at the same time so we can all park together at the track. We will have VW Flags flying and all sorts of goodies from our friendly VW dealer here in Jax (Tom Bush VW) I think some of their guys may come down with us as well. Should be an awesome weekend!

Chuckie

Hotel information.....

I just made our hotel reservations for the Daytona Redbull Global Rallycross races. We are staying Friday night August 22 at the Quality Inn across the street from the race track. The room is $84.00 a night. Their phone number is (386) 255-3661.

We are going to head down on Friday morning, check in to the hotel and go to the speedway for the Friday pre-races and basic tourist gawking and driver meet and greets in the paddock area.

Saturday, time TBA, we will meet in the parking lot and go over to the speedway together so we can all park in the infield as a group. We will have some swag and flags from a local VW dealer to display where we park. (Maybe we can set something up on Friday for parking on Saturday)

Tickets for the two days are $35.00/person. Kids 6-12 get in for $10.00. That info can be found at redbullgrc.com under the events tab go to Daytona.

We are going to have a great time. Hope to see a lot of Florida folks there.

Great Info Vern!

Thanks for posting that Vern!

We are planning on getting down to the speedway about 0900 Friday morning. This way we can all be in line when the gates open and all park together.

After the days racing is over we will proceed to the hotel across the street and check in and go look for dinner and whatever trouble we can get into.

Saturday morning we will get up and go to breakfast then check out and head back over to the track for the 10:00am gate opening. Once the race is over we can either head back home, go to dinner in Daytona or check back in to the hotel if there is something going on in the city that we want to attend.

Either way, we are going to have a Blast!

Chuckie

What a weekend!

The racing was hot. The weather was hotter!

What can I say? This is the most fun I have ever had going to the races. The track was just over a mile in length and it was 70% asphalt. The dirt sections were right in front of the grandstands we were sitting in. One driver even ran 3 laps at the end of the main event on a rim! His tire exploded and they kept letting him run. And he did pretty well!

It was over 95° and we drank gallons of water and quite a bit of beer trying to stay hydrated (Won't say how much Beer on Friday!)

The crew, Jessica and Geoffrey McDaniel, Vern, Ray Darby, Nurse Diesel and yours truly had a ball. Our clothes were soaking wet from sweat, but it was OK. We were filling our hats with ice to try and keep from over heating. The races were that good!

If the RedBull GRC races are ever within a hundred miles of you location you need to go. I'll try to get my pics posted in the next couple days.

Chuckie