Hi gang!
I'll be hitting the road (well, the air) Sunday, and as you may have seen in the other thread, my week is booked solid with motorsports adventures. In addition to the licensing class I'm doing Tuesday and Wednesday, I'll also be hooking up with reps from Falken Tire and getting an inside look at their logistics and engineering operation, and of course I'll have backstage access to the Hyundai TCR effort, which I'll bring you along on. If anyone has any specific questions or wants a better look at something, just drop suggestions in this thread.
I'm also hanging around an extra day to Spend some time with Dale Lomas at Rent4Ring and checkout their operation. Monday is also a tourist lapping day at the 'Ring, and I have a friend traveling in the area who's going to try and work it into his schedule to to get to the track for a bit. So I might get to take someone for their fist ever lap of a racetrack... on the Nurburgring. That's basically like taking someone to their first concert and it's Black Sabbath at Madison Square Garden in 1974.
I'll check in again from the airport Sunday.
Hey look who's at the airport!
flight leaves ATL at 6:30 and I'll wake up in Frankfurt, where I'll pick up a [redacted extremely cool euro-market car. You'll see tomorrow]. Monday is kind of a day off to chill and time-acclimate, then Tuesday I clock in.
Let's play "guess the mystery press car"
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
vw?
O hai
that's the VW Arteon R Shooting Brake. Golf R running gear in a wagon body.
yes, it's awesome.
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
I just discovered a void in my life that can only be filled by an Arteon R Shooting Brake.
A few pedants on Facebook were complianing that "It's not a real shooting brake" and I'm like "Whatever." The world needs more dope-ass wagons and I'll take them however I can get them.
Jumping all over the place here, but it looks like I might get some sit down time with Albert Biermann Friday or Saturday. Biermann was the guy poached from BMW M that pretty much put Hyundai N on the map. He's now "officially" retired but still part of Hyundai as a "special consultant."
What do you want me to ask him?
JG Pasterjak said:
Jumping all over the place here, but it looks like I might get some sit down time with Albert Biermann Friday or Saturday. Biermann was the guy poached from BMW M that pretty much put Hyundai N on the map. He's now "officially" retired but still part of Hyundai as a "special consultant."
What do you want me to ask him?
Will the Hyundai "N"achos be making a comeback this year?
