No prob Henry.

 

South San Jose Meet Point
Where: Safeway Parking Lot
840 E. Dunne Ave
Morgan Hill, CA
When: 10:25AM
Who:
1. whatever
2. 2004z
3. Brando222
4. Sybertron
5. Bz8 (+ z-incognito)
6. KarmaMag
7. Rey (NSX)
8. Thien (RX-7)
9.

 

I just received this email today. Please let me know ASAP or contact JGTC at stephen.dietrich@jgtcusa.net if you do NOT want to participate in the fan lap. So far, all 34 cars are registered for it.

"Thank you for registering with, and participating in, GT LIVE. We are looking forward to your club's participation in this unprecedented event.

We have your passes ready to be shipped but we need some additional information from your club before we ship the passes. Due to overwhelming response from the car club community, we are faced with a logistical dilemma that we need your assistance with.

Part of your package includes a fan lap. We have over 700 registered car club members and capacity for 200-250 vehicles in the fan lap. Because of capacity, traffic, timing and security issues, and the overwhelming number of registered car club members, we need to have club members register for specifically for the fan lap in advance.

Recent random polling has indicated that many car club members registered for benefits other than the fan lap and are not planning on participating in it anyway. We basically need to know who from your club wishes to participate in the fan lap, and who does not.

The good news is that if a member decides to participate in the fan lap, their car will be parked INSIDE the event Saturday morning and they will be close to the action. This is the best parking spot in the whole event. The car must remain parked throughout the day until the fan lap, at which time cars will be sent onto the course in groups for their lap.

The bad news is that the car and owner must arrive VERY EARLY Saturday morning (probably around 4:00AM depending on how many people register) for security check, pre-staging and positioning and cannot leave the venue until the close of the event and all spectators have been swept from the area. YOU CANNOT EXIT THE INFIELD AREA PRIOR TO THIS TIME. This is for Saturday only. Sunday, all club cars will be parked in the original club area in the outer parking area.

We need you to register the names of the members from your club who wish to participate in the fan lap so we can send them special load-in information.

WE NEED THIS INFORMATION NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 10!"

 

I'd like to participate in the VIP Fan Lap:

1. Tony W.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

 

Please count me in for the parade lap!!

I'd like to participate in the VIP Fan Lap:

1. Tony W.
2. Dave L.
3.
4.
5.
6.

 

I'd like to participate in the VIP Fan Lap:

1. Tony W.
2. Dave L.
3. John V.
4.
5.
6.

 

You bastards are gonna make us get up at 4! Damn you poker freaks.

1. Tony W.
2. Dave L.
3. John V.
4. Brando222
5.
6.

 

I guess we won't be sleeping Friday night then.

 

I see that the 1st meeting spot is in @

South San Jose Meet Point
Where: Safeway Parking Lot
840 E. Dunne Ave
Morgan Hill, CA

but i have some NSX guys from Sac and i was hoping that we're able to meet them where the I-152 meet I-5. Maybe we can arrange another meeting spot roughly about 11:30?

Let me know!!!

 

not a problem. We will still make a quick rest stop at 152/5 @ 11:30. Just let me know aprox how many cars we should expect so we don't leave them behind.

 

Brandon, learn to play poker...
John, you gonna bring your table right? who have chips???

 

You think we will need a helmet for this fan lap?

1. Tony W.
2. Dave L.
3. John V.
4. Brando222
5. Sybertron
6.

 

I don't think we need helmet. It's gonna be a very slow cruise around the track due to the amount of car they'll have.

1. Tony W.
2. Dave L.
3. John V.
4. Brando222
5. Sybertron
6. KarmaMag <--- Henry will be driving my car
7. Thien (RX-7)
8.

 

From what i gather, they initially had 750 cars, but had narrowed it down to 250. Of the 250, from what i've been told, all the 96 NSX's are going to be in it. It's going to be a slow drive around the track for insurance purposes and they're most likely going to have us sign a release form as we go on the track. So no helmet.
1 MORE WEEK!!!! YEAH!!!!

 

Woohoo

 

Give him the chance to pimp in those j8s..
man that's some good marketing!!!

one more week!!!

 

Today is the 10th. Other than posting here, do we need to inform someone that we'll be participating in the fan lap?

Somehow I don't think the JGTC people are subscribed to this thread.

 

Erh.....look up to the big post that says JGTC VIP Fan Lap.

 

I have the weekend passes in my hand. I am now just waiting for the parking passes to arrive.

For those that purchased PASSENGER tickets ONLINE or OVER THE PHONE, you will be getting those directly from JGTC.

All car club parking is now moved from being up front outside the track (the thin light yellow strips that say 08), to being in the infield. This means we are right in the middle of all the action. The lot will be open from 6:00 a.m. and you will be free to drive in and out as you please.





I talked to JGTC re the Fan Lap situation. It turns out that since they are only allowed 250 cars due to insurance purposes, the first 250 cars that registered for the Car Clubs (which is 5 clubs) were given priority. All spots were taken (NSXPrime makes up about 100 of the spots). We were club #7.

Because 3FiveZeroZ will not be able to participate in the Fan Lap, they will be giving everyone FREE VIP Grand Stand passes upon your arrival into the VIP parking lot. The VIP Grand Stand was specially built for prime viewing of the drifting events and can only accommodate 6,000 people. VIP Grand Stand passes are normally $10 each day. I don't know whether they are giving out passes for both days or just one, but the main drift event is on Sunday.

The free pass is good enough for me.....I think rolling in a car at 15mph for over an hour would begin to frustrate me after a while. It reminds of a super long 20 minute bumper-to-bumper ride I once took at Pirates of the Caribbean at Disney....I wanted to jump off the boat after 5 minutes.

 

ZuprCar,
Do we (3FiveZeroZ) have our parking assigned or we'll have to be there at 6AM to get good parking spot?