Dates: March 15-18, 2012

Official Hotel Information

The official TX2K12 hotel is Omni Houston Hotel Westside (same hotel as the last 3 years). It took a lot of work to get them to accept us back, but they were agreeable at the end of the day. 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 14: $119
Thursday night March 15: $119
Friday night March 16: $99
Saturday night March 17: $99
Sunday night March 18: $99

Reservation Phone Number
1-800-THE-OMNI (1-800-843-6664) for reservations

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 "TX2K12" 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

 

Thursday March 15, 2012 - Driver's Education Event at MSR Houston

The road racing/driver's education event for TX2K12 will be held at MSR Houston (www.msrhouston.com). This is the same venue we had the TX2K8 and TX2K9 event at.

We will be running the 2.4 mile long circuit:





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 20 miles until you get to Highway 288. Please note that Beltway 8 is a pay toll. Exit Hwy 288 and travel South. You will stay on 288 for approximately 21 miles. You will go past Hwy 6 and MSR Houston is exactly 13 miles south of Hwy 6 on the left hand side of the highway. Traveling south on Hwy 288, exit SOUTH CR 48 (not to be confused with CR 48). SOUTH CR 48 is right after FM 1462/Rosharon exit - just after you cross the power lines. You can't miss it.

The drive should take you 45 minutes from the host hotel.

www.msrhouston.com
1 Performance Drive
Angleton, TX 77515
281-369-0677

Gates Open: 8:00 am

Mandatory Driver's Meeting: 8:30 am

First Cars On Track: 9:00 am

Cost per Car: $225 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 $232 to pblach@att.net (NON REFUNDABLE - however if your plans change you can sell your spot to someone else). No charge for spectators.

Transponder Cost per Car: $50 payable at MSR Houston to me the day of the event
Each driver will get ATLEAST 2 hours of track time...

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.
ALL ADVANCED DRIVER'S WILL NEED TO VOLUNTEER TO INSTRUCT BEGINNERS.

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.


Entrants Paid To Date (3/12/12)

NOTE: Looks like we are going to go for a full day of track time, sign up now!!!!

1. Jason Purdum - GTR - Advanced (Last years 3rd place finisher)
2. Jason Bruce - STI - Beginner
3. Jeremy Rohrs - GTR - Advanced
4. Dave Marcus - GT3 - Beginner
5. Brandon Harlan - Supra - Beginner
6. Brian Anderson - Supra - Advanced
7. Aaron Boltman - Camaro - Advanced
8. Paul Costas - Camaro - Advanced (Last years 1st place finisher)
9. Sharif Abdelbasset - GTR - Advanced (Last years 2nd place finisher)
10. Terry Fair - 11' Mustang - Advanced
11. James Malaniuk - C5 Corvette - Beginner
12. Zac Polivoks - GTR - Beginner
13. Ron Nolan - GTR - Advanced
14. Warren Kline - GTR - Advanced
15. Dave Crooke - GTR - Beginner
16. Garrick Patterson - GTR - Beginner
17. Steve Russell - GTR - Advanced
18. Josh Hunter - Mustang - Beginner
19. Venkat Reddy - GTR - Beginner
20. Daniel MacFaden - BMW - Advanced
21. SW - GT3 - Advanced
22. Shawn Beard - GTR - Beginner
23. Scott Brown - C5 Z06 - Beginner
24. Troy Dixon - C6 Z06 - Advanced
25. Marcus Yi - 911 - Beginner
26. John Munsey - GTR - Advanced
27. Raymund Guerrero - Viper - Advanced
28. Michael Skinner - M3 - Beginner
29. David Tigue - S4 - Beginner
30. Darren Strunk - GTR - Beginner
31. Tim Palmer - Viper - Advanced
32. Anthony Shun - Viper -Advanced
33. Rick Thompson - Shelby Mustang - Beginner
34. Gregg Bruce - Mustang - Beginner
35. Stacy Barnett - Viper - Advanced
36. Logan Mascheck - SC300 - Beginner
37. Blake Armstrong - Mustang - Beginner
38. David Hawkins - GT3 - Advanced
39. Ron Scarcella - Supra - Advanced

 

Friday March 16, 2012 - Dyno Day at HPE

The dyno day for TX2K12 will once again be at Lonestar Motorsports Park (www.lonestarmotorsportspark.com) The dyno day event will mirror the TX2K10 and TX2K11 dyno day...first come first serve, 2 dyno's will be going at the same time (one is an AWD dyno for GTR's, AWD 911's, EVO's, STi's, etc...and one is a standard dynojet), Anna Comingore will hold the dyno list...sponsors will be able to reserve dyno time. Last year we ended up dyno'ing around 55 cars and I plan to do the same this year. Cost to dyno - NOTHING, it's free like always...

Directions:
From the host hotel, go WEST on I-10, stay on I-10 WEST for approximately 40-45 miles. Exit Beckendorf Road (Exit 713) and follow signs to LMP.



LONESTAR MOTORSPORTS PARK
120 Old Columbus Road South
Sealy, TX 77474
Phone: 979-877-0922

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

Gates open at 8:30 am, we will dyno from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

 

Saturday and Sunday March 17-18, 2012 - Drags and 60-130 at LMP

Just like last year, the plan will be to have test-n-tune and 2 rounds of qualifying on Saturday. 2 years ago the test-n-tune got rained out and so I'm building in that same buffer for 2012. Best case we will have 2-days of drag racing, worst case, only 1 like in 2010. If by chance rain ruins one of the days, the schedule will change accordingly and will be posted at LMP.
Also, instead of doing a stand-alone 60-130 event, i will have v-boxes available for you to use if you'd like to do some 60-130 runs. This will be available on a first come first serve basis and will be free of charge. The only caveat...you break the box, you buy it.

Directions:
From the host hotel, go WEST on I-10, stay on I-10 WEST for approximately 40-45 miles. Exit Beckendorf Road (Exit 713) and follow signs to LMP.



LONESTAR MOTORSPORTS PARK
120 Old Columbus Road South
Sealy, TX 77474
Phone: 979-877-0922

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 day’s eliminations and 60-130 runs if you so wish. I am also entertaining the possibility of doing some sort of "roll racing event" at the strip.
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).

Food: concessions will be open all day

Sunday Schedule: 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)
3:00 pm - eliminations round 3 (test-n-tune after)
4:00 pm - final round eliminations
There will be a dedicated lane for test-n-tune ALL DAY LONG.

DRAG RACING CLASSES

TEST-N-TUNE
The lanes will be open all day for test-n-tune. This is the perfect venue for you to settle your grudges or to simply have the opportunity to run an UNLIMITED number of times!

Street Car Class
This class will be administered by a sponsor that is local to Houston named ARD. They came to me with this idea and I liked it so much, I decided to give it a shot this year! Thank you to Owen Priest and ARD for helping me put this class together. This class can and should include 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 sounds like fun.

 

It's on again... Cause we ain't broke no mo... no mo... We ain't broke no mo!!!

Cannot wait!

 

MSR!!!! Awesome. Did not want to go back to GrandSport. Put me down for the roadcourse.

Plus everything else of course.

 

Awesome event, every year....I might run my now NA M3 (breaking in the motor right now) although she will have a couple hundred pounds of stereo equipment by then.

 

well...I had booked a place in Acapulco during those dates but I may have to try and adjust the dates I'd love to make it to this event!

 

Post 2 updated with our first RR/DE entrant!
Peter

 

Some great pics from the 2011 event:























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I'm dropping my check in the mail today.

Z06 - Advanced.

 

Great pics. Last years event was epic!

 

Ok we have 2 signed up for the DE event!!!!!

 

Peter Can you PM me sponsorship information.