Rachel
06-07-2002, 03:00 PM
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Invitation:
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Team Spartanburg (www.teamspartanburg.com) writes:
Mark Hughes and John Moore of Team Spartanburg invite all who love these cars:
12 noon to 1pm- Milk and Cookies with the Racing Team & Cars
stop by our trailer and tent between 12:00 and 1:00pm on Saturday June 22nd
for some refreshments and a close up view of the race cars.
(See also Track Parade below)
230pm- Z3 Coupé Race starts!
Team Spartanburg has two Z3 coupés entered in the three hour/250 mile
Grand American Professional Road Racing Series. Z3s racing against Boxsters,
Integras, Lexuss, Mercedess and BMW 328s
6:00pm- M3 Race starts!
Team Spartanburg has their M3 entered in the three hour/250 mile
Grand American Professional Road Racing Series racing against 911's,
Mustangs, Corvettes and A4s
Inside Z3 Scoop:
John writes:"This is the fourth race in the 2002 season. Team Spartanburg
brought home the victory in the season opener at Daytona and the New
Jersey-based Z3s of Villaconn International (www.villaconn.com) took home
first and second at the last race in Phoenix." (Translation: THE Z3s are
WINNING! )
Suggested additional races:
On Sunday, stay and watch the exotic Grand American prototypes and GT cars
take
the track for the nationally televised 6 hours at The Glen.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gangsters of Love Ride:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
I always warn people that I have a tendency to show up where I am invited…
and I missed the DVC picnic L…
So what the heck is going on with all this track business? What’s all the
fuss about? Never been a better opportunity to find out…. So let’s GO!
Friday June 21:
Watkins Glen is about a 6 hour drive from New York City according to yahoo,
so it’s probably really a 5 hour trip. I’ll wait for JonT to get out of work
on Friday then we’re heading out GORGEOUS Route 17 straight for The Glen.
-Anyone who has the time and wants the ultimate scenic route should take
Route 97 from Port Jervis and a camera!-
Where to stay at The Glen:
We’re booked at the Best Western Lodge on the Green
3171 Canada Rd. • Routes 415 & 17 • Painted Post, NY 14870
Phone (607) 962-2456 • Fax (607) 962-1769 • Toll Free (800) 528-1234 •
http://www.lodgeonthegreen.com/
Rate is $89.95
and we’ll probably get in around midnight:
Dinner:
if we can get in earlier we might stop in the original Moosewood Restaurant
in Ithaca
http://www.moosewoodrestaurant.com/
or at Veraisons, the restaurant at Glenora Inn and Winery.
800.243.5513
(the Inn is already sold out for rooms )
http://www.glenora.com/
More Food and Accomodations:
There is a castle hotel with a 5 star restaurant as well:
Belhurst Castle: 315 781-0201
http://www.belhurstcastle.com/
And a Romantic architectural treat Bed and Breakfast
The Alexander House
(607) 756-4453
61 Port Watson St.
Cortland NY 13045
http://www.alexanderhousebb.com/
You can also CAMP out inside the extensive Road Course!
Check with the Chamber of Commerce for last-room availability:
607-535-4300
There is also a fabulous winery tour road alongside Seneca Lake…
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Saturday June 22:
Sports Car Grand Prix!
*note about times, the event is Rain or Shine, and there are many events so
the time schedule may vary as necessary due to delays*
More Racing for Dummies (like me!):
12 noon- 1pm: We’ll be at the Team Spartanburg trailer and tent hangin out
and asking questions and having a snack and chillin out as if we have been
there all our lives. I haven’t seen these guys since Homecoming 2001-
except John Moore who I last saw in Union Square :) Tickets are $40 and cover
the whole weekend.
-or-
Track Parade!
If you buy an "International Car Club" upgrade ticket, (another $45), you
will be welcomed at the special ICC corral and hospitality with special
parking and for the first time, Watkins Glen is offering ICC ticket holders a
chance to lap the track! Yes! This DOES mean you can take your open top
roadster on the track at Watkins Glen without doing a thing to it!!!! This
is for BMWs, Porsches, Corvettes, Italian and British Cars only! It’s one
heck of a photo op!
Space is limited- buy ticket ASAP! You must be at the Corral by 11am to line
up to lap.
www.theglen.com
2:30pm-5:30pm
It’s open seating so we can all sit together and root for Team Spartanburg
and the Z3 Coupés to WIN! For this event, coolers are welcome, and they have
nice concession stands too. (You can stop by the original Moosewood
Restaurant and bring your own veggie goodies if you like!) It’s three hours
of racing 250 miles on a "road course" not a loop!
Bring:
Sun protection
Rain Protection
Binoculars
Camera
Food
Seat Cushions
Gangsters:
------------------
Jon and I will probably leave after the Z3s race and on the way home stop in
Apalachin to check out the "Mafia House" featured in the movie "Analyze This".
where the infamous "Mafia Convention" in 1957 took place.
http://www.search-international.com/Articles/crime/mafiaorigins.htm
"FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was finally forced to admit that this shadowy
crime cartel was a lethal force in American life following public disclosure
of a secret conference of sixty-five ranking mobsters at Joseph Barbara’s
sprawling estate outside Apalachin, New York on November 14, 1957.
Astute state troopers, accompanied by agents from the Bureau of Alcohol
Tobacco and Firearms tax unit, observed several well-known Mafia figures
coming and going from the country house of the millionaire president of the
Canada Dry Bottling Company of Endicott, New York. Road blocks were
hastily set up, and in the ensuing commotion, the aging "dons" fled into the
dense woods discarding money and guns as they fled in panic."
****If you want to meet up en route, email me at rachel@z3ers.com or post on
Caranostra.org Message Board- MAKE YOUR OWN RESERVATIONS ****
------------------------------------------------------------------------
More in the area:
Mark Twain
-------------------
We might stop in Elmira to pay respects to Mark Twain:
" Elmira cherished fond memories of Mark Twain. With Mrs. Clemens and the
children he had spent many happy summers at Quarry Farm, on East Hill,
overlooking the city, the home of Mrs. Susan
L. Crane, Mrs. Clemens' sister… A path from the Crane hose winds through
wooded grounds to the summer lodge, which was Mark Twain's workshop. Here he
wrote "Roughing it," "A Tram Abroad" and other works.
Below this lodge, a short way down in the woods, is another rustic structure
with barked roof, which the author built for his children. Here may still be
seen many of the undisturbed play things of the little ones.
It was during the Quaker City expedition in 1867, which Mark Twain had
immortalized in "The Innocents Abroad," that the humorist met General
Langdon… Langdon took kindly to young Clemens… the meeting led to the
marriage.. with Olivia L. Langdon.
"I saw her first," wrote Twain of his wife in his autobiography, "in the form
of an ivory miniature in her brother Charles' stateroom…when she was in her
twenty-second year. I saw her in the flesh for the first time in New York in
the following December. She was slender and beautiful and girlish, and she
was both girl and woman. She remained both girl and woman to the last of her
life."
----------------------------------------------
It's the first day of frikin summer, let's take advantage and DRIVE! ;)
(Hey, does anyone know how to get into where i can change my Sig File? Thanks!)
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Invitation:
------------------------
Team Spartanburg (www.teamspartanburg.com) writes:
Mark Hughes and John Moore of Team Spartanburg invite all who love these cars:
12 noon to 1pm- Milk and Cookies with the Racing Team & Cars
stop by our trailer and tent between 12:00 and 1:00pm on Saturday June 22nd
for some refreshments and a close up view of the race cars.
(See also Track Parade below)
230pm- Z3 Coupé Race starts!
Team Spartanburg has two Z3 coupés entered in the three hour/250 mile
Grand American Professional Road Racing Series. Z3s racing against Boxsters,
Integras, Lexuss, Mercedess and BMW 328s
6:00pm- M3 Race starts!
Team Spartanburg has their M3 entered in the three hour/250 mile
Grand American Professional Road Racing Series racing against 911's,
Mustangs, Corvettes and A4s
Inside Z3 Scoop:
John writes:"This is the fourth race in the 2002 season. Team Spartanburg
brought home the victory in the season opener at Daytona and the New
Jersey-based Z3s of Villaconn International (www.villaconn.com) took home
first and second at the last race in Phoenix." (Translation: THE Z3s are
WINNING! )
Suggested additional races:
On Sunday, stay and watch the exotic Grand American prototypes and GT cars
take
the track for the nationally televised 6 hours at The Glen.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gangsters of Love Ride:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
I always warn people that I have a tendency to show up where I am invited…
and I missed the DVC picnic L…
So what the heck is going on with all this track business? What’s all the
fuss about? Never been a better opportunity to find out…. So let’s GO!
Friday June 21:
Watkins Glen is about a 6 hour drive from New York City according to yahoo,
so it’s probably really a 5 hour trip. I’ll wait for JonT to get out of work
on Friday then we’re heading out GORGEOUS Route 17 straight for The Glen.
-Anyone who has the time and wants the ultimate scenic route should take
Route 97 from Port Jervis and a camera!-
Where to stay at The Glen:
We’re booked at the Best Western Lodge on the Green
3171 Canada Rd. • Routes 415 & 17 • Painted Post, NY 14870
Phone (607) 962-2456 • Fax (607) 962-1769 • Toll Free (800) 528-1234 •
http://www.lodgeonthegreen.com/
Rate is $89.95
and we’ll probably get in around midnight:
Dinner:
if we can get in earlier we might stop in the original Moosewood Restaurant
in Ithaca
http://www.moosewoodrestaurant.com/
or at Veraisons, the restaurant at Glenora Inn and Winery.
800.243.5513
(the Inn is already sold out for rooms )
http://www.glenora.com/
More Food and Accomodations:
There is a castle hotel with a 5 star restaurant as well:
Belhurst Castle: 315 781-0201
http://www.belhurstcastle.com/
And a Romantic architectural treat Bed and Breakfast
The Alexander House
(607) 756-4453
61 Port Watson St.
Cortland NY 13045
http://www.alexanderhousebb.com/
You can also CAMP out inside the extensive Road Course!
Check with the Chamber of Commerce for last-room availability:
607-535-4300
There is also a fabulous winery tour road alongside Seneca Lake…
-----------------------------------------------------------
Saturday June 22:
Sports Car Grand Prix!
*note about times, the event is Rain or Shine, and there are many events so
the time schedule may vary as necessary due to delays*
More Racing for Dummies (like me!):
12 noon- 1pm: We’ll be at the Team Spartanburg trailer and tent hangin out
and asking questions and having a snack and chillin out as if we have been
there all our lives. I haven’t seen these guys since Homecoming 2001-
except John Moore who I last saw in Union Square :) Tickets are $40 and cover
the whole weekend.
-or-
Track Parade!
If you buy an "International Car Club" upgrade ticket, (another $45), you
will be welcomed at the special ICC corral and hospitality with special
parking and for the first time, Watkins Glen is offering ICC ticket holders a
chance to lap the track! Yes! This DOES mean you can take your open top
roadster on the track at Watkins Glen without doing a thing to it!!!! This
is for BMWs, Porsches, Corvettes, Italian and British Cars only! It’s one
heck of a photo op!
Space is limited- buy ticket ASAP! You must be at the Corral by 11am to line
up to lap.
www.theglen.com
2:30pm-5:30pm
It’s open seating so we can all sit together and root for Team Spartanburg
and the Z3 Coupés to WIN! For this event, coolers are welcome, and they have
nice concession stands too. (You can stop by the original Moosewood
Restaurant and bring your own veggie goodies if you like!) It’s three hours
of racing 250 miles on a "road course" not a loop!
Bring:
Sun protection
Rain Protection
Binoculars
Camera
Food
Seat Cushions
Gangsters:
------------------
Jon and I will probably leave after the Z3s race and on the way home stop in
Apalachin to check out the "Mafia House" featured in the movie "Analyze This".
where the infamous "Mafia Convention" in 1957 took place.
http://www.search-international.com/Articles/crime/mafiaorigins.htm
"FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was finally forced to admit that this shadowy
crime cartel was a lethal force in American life following public disclosure
of a secret conference of sixty-five ranking mobsters at Joseph Barbara’s
sprawling estate outside Apalachin, New York on November 14, 1957.
Astute state troopers, accompanied by agents from the Bureau of Alcohol
Tobacco and Firearms tax unit, observed several well-known Mafia figures
coming and going from the country house of the millionaire president of the
Canada Dry Bottling Company of Endicott, New York. Road blocks were
hastily set up, and in the ensuing commotion, the aging "dons" fled into the
dense woods discarding money and guns as they fled in panic."
****If you want to meet up en route, email me at rachel@z3ers.com or post on
Caranostra.org Message Board- MAKE YOUR OWN RESERVATIONS ****
------------------------------------------------------------------------
More in the area:
Mark Twain
-------------------
We might stop in Elmira to pay respects to Mark Twain:
" Elmira cherished fond memories of Mark Twain. With Mrs. Clemens and the
children he had spent many happy summers at Quarry Farm, on East Hill,
overlooking the city, the home of Mrs. Susan
L. Crane, Mrs. Clemens' sister… A path from the Crane hose winds through
wooded grounds to the summer lodge, which was Mark Twain's workshop. Here he
wrote "Roughing it," "A Tram Abroad" and other works.
Below this lodge, a short way down in the woods, is another rustic structure
with barked roof, which the author built for his children. Here may still be
seen many of the undisturbed play things of the little ones.
It was during the Quaker City expedition in 1867, which Mark Twain had
immortalized in "The Innocents Abroad," that the humorist met General
Langdon… Langdon took kindly to young Clemens… the meeting led to the
marriage.. with Olivia L. Langdon.
"I saw her first," wrote Twain of his wife in his autobiography, "in the form
of an ivory miniature in her brother Charles' stateroom…when she was in her
twenty-second year. I saw her in the flesh for the first time in New York in
the following December. She was slender and beautiful and girlish, and she
was both girl and woman. She remained both girl and woman to the last of her
life."
----------------------------------------------
It's the first day of frikin summer, let's take advantage and DRIVE! ;)
(Hey, does anyone know how to get into where i can change my Sig File? Thanks!)
<FONT face="Comic Sans MS">
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