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A small track in Northern California (Actual Northern California, not Sacramento) hosts the "Worlds Longest Endurance Race"- a 25 hour racing event at Thunderhill Raceway Park. Major racing series can talk up "Pro-Am" racing all they want, this is a race where someone with a handful of Track Day and NASA/SCCA experience can race up against some of the best drivers in the world. (See Below)
This event is only a couple hours drive from my home (Actually the closest road course to my house), thus, me and a couple mates will go down to watch... The whole thing.
So if any GTP members are willing to come watch some action and drama, and in turn, support a great track and event, post here!
It's worth saying that this is a pretty good opportunity to get autographs from all of the popular drivers, since this is likely the least-well publicized event they will go to all year.
The field is massively diverse- here are some of the cars;
Acura 1LX (UTCC) (Ran by Honda Racing)
All shapes and regs of Mazda Miata
Norma M20F (A type of Prototype, open-cockpit)
BMW E92 M3 (NASA GTS)
Radical SR3 (SCCA CSR)
Porsche 944
Porsche 997 Cup
Panoz GTS (SCCA GT2)
Fiat 500 Abarth (SCCA PWC-TC)
Audi TTRS (VLN)
The class breakdown is E0, E1, E2, E3, ES, ESR
E0-3 is for spec racers, and local-type race cars.
ES is for cars from classes like the Grand-Am ES, or the various SCCA/NASA GT classes. Also Porsche Cup/GTC
ESR is a sort of catch-all Unlimited class. If someone wanted to show up with a DP, LMP, or other Stupidly-fast prototype/ GT car, this is where they would go. The current ESR entries are Radical-looking Prototypes.
Look it up, here's a documentary of last year's race.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsdJKTH7vVQ&feature=relmfu
Last year's winning car was driven by Wolf Henzler and Johannes Van Overbeek.
It's allegedly an amateur event, but Simon Pagenaud was there with Honda last year.
50+ cars, at the 25 Hours of Thunderhill. Who wants to go? I'll be there the whole time- December 8-9th.
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Current Notable Entrants:
43 Krider Racing Blue Bryan Heitkotter (Nissan Sentra)
75 MazdaSpeed Motorsports Development Thomas Long (Mazda 2) (Grand Am GT driver)
75 MazdaSpeed Motorsports Development Charles Espenlaub (same as above)
75 MazdaSpeed Motorsports Development Tristan Vautier () (Indy Lights 2012 Champion)
51 Motorsport Solutions 1 Jon Fogarty (Porsche 997 Cup [GTC]) (Bob Stallings/Gainsco Grand-Am DP)
51 Motorsport Solutions 1 Johannes Van Overbeek () (Patron ESM Ferrari ALMS GTE)
64 CJ Wilson Racing 1 Tristian Nunez (Mazda MX-5 Cup) (ALMS Prototype Lites)
Final registration is NOT due, so the driver list will only get bigger
This event is only a couple hours drive from my home (Actually the closest road course to my house), thus, me and a couple mates will go down to watch... The whole thing.
So if any GTP members are willing to come watch some action and drama, and in turn, support a great track and event, post here!
It's worth saying that this is a pretty good opportunity to get autographs from all of the popular drivers, since this is likely the least-well publicized event they will go to all year.
The field is massively diverse- here are some of the cars;
Acura 1LX (UTCC) (Ran by Honda Racing)
All shapes and regs of Mazda Miata
Norma M20F (A type of Prototype, open-cockpit)
BMW E92 M3 (NASA GTS)
Radical SR3 (SCCA CSR)
Porsche 944
Porsche 997 Cup
Panoz GTS (SCCA GT2)
Fiat 500 Abarth (SCCA PWC-TC)
Audi TTRS (VLN)
The class breakdown is E0, E1, E2, E3, ES, ESR
E0-3 is for spec racers, and local-type race cars.
ES is for cars from classes like the Grand-Am ES, or the various SCCA/NASA GT classes. Also Porsche Cup/GTC
ESR is a sort of catch-all Unlimited class. If someone wanted to show up with a DP, LMP, or other Stupidly-fast prototype/ GT car, this is where they would go. The current ESR entries are Radical-looking Prototypes.
Look it up, here's a documentary of last year's race.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsdJKTH7vVQ&feature=relmfu
Last year's winning car was driven by Wolf Henzler and Johannes Van Overbeek.
It's allegedly an amateur event, but Simon Pagenaud was there with Honda last year.
50+ cars, at the 25 Hours of Thunderhill. Who wants to go? I'll be there the whole time- December 8-9th.
\
Current Notable Entrants:
43 Krider Racing Blue Bryan Heitkotter (Nissan Sentra)
75 MazdaSpeed Motorsports Development Thomas Long (Mazda 2) (Grand Am GT driver)
75 MazdaSpeed Motorsports Development Charles Espenlaub (same as above)
75 MazdaSpeed Motorsports Development Tristan Vautier () (Indy Lights 2012 Champion)
51 Motorsport Solutions 1 Jon Fogarty (Porsche 997 Cup [GTC]) (Bob Stallings/Gainsco Grand-Am DP)
51 Motorsport Solutions 1 Johannes Van Overbeek () (Patron ESM Ferrari ALMS GTE)
64 CJ Wilson Racing 1 Tristian Nunez (Mazda MX-5 Cup) (ALMS Prototype Lites)
Final registration is NOT due, so the driver list will only get bigger
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Take me with you! 
*still stuck in Canada*
