Just saw this on another forum. Hope mods to mind me posting.

Carrabelle Speed Festival - New Date - July 30th, 2011!! New Low Price!!

WannaGOFAST.com is proud to present our first event of the New Year the Carrabelle Speed Festival. It will take place at the Carrabelle-Thompson airport in Carrabelle, FL. This event is all about speed! Test your vehicle and driving skills on an open runway. We will be doing standing HALF MILE races all day long!! The best part is that we are allowing head to head competition instead of solo runs like other airstrip events. The theme will be classic grudge match style racing. Hit speeds you only dreamed about on a ¼ mile track in a fun and safe environment!

Come join us for what is sure to be an exciting day of speed and entertainment! We will have a live DJ spinning tracks all day long and food provided from the Pit Stop Grill!

Our 2 sponsors for the event are TopSpeed Motorsports of Atlanta, GA and Unique Audio of Destin, FL! TopSpeed Motorsports (http://www.topspeedtuned.com) is one of the premier tuning and performance shops in the nation! Their Nissan GT-R just recently won the One Lap of America this past May! They will be bringing a couple of their vehicles to take down our runway. One of them being a 1300hp Supra!!

Unique Audio of Destin (http://www.uniquedestin.com) is a one of a kind customization center for your car or truck! They specialize in audio, security, window tinting and custom wheels and tires. If you can dream it they can create it for you!

*Check out our website (http://www.wannagofast.com) to register. Be sure to read all of the forms and have your tech sheet filled out prior to entering the gate!

*Driver's you must register online by July 23, 2011 at our website http://www.wannagofast.com

*For places to stay in the area click the link that says things to do and places to stay in Carrabelle (or visit www.carrabelle.org). If you need a hotel it is recommended that you book it now to make sure there’s availability!

*If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to call or email us.

Email: info@wannagofast.com
Contact: 850.585.5168

Take care and I hope to see all of you at the event!

 

But it's only a half mile!!! running a mile would be more fun, it reads like there just extending the quarter, and for $85 thats a lot, maybe its just me,

 

Steve I messaged them and it's a 1/2 mile plus a 1/4 mile of shutdown room. So a total of a 3/4 mile track. Where else are you gonna find this besides the Texas mile though? I imagine it was tough just to get through all the regulations etc.

 

Maxton is in NC, but thats turning into a big event, S. FL does a mile event its at airport,

I guess if you don't want to travel, this is the event!!!

 

Steve the South FL event got shut down by the county I've been told this is the only airport event in the State of Florida. Even though this distance is shorter I think it's cool that they are letting people race each other heads up instead of just solo runs. I'd imagine that could get pretty boring?? Who knows.

 

I really wish they would bring back the mile events down here. $85 does sound like a lot though. But compared to the mile, runs will go way faster due to two cars at the same time and only half the distance. It would take like an average of almost 2 mins between runs at the mile and that was only one car at a time.

 

Jeeper's wasn't Milemarker1 $150? $85 seems about right for a 1/2. I looked on their Facebook page and there's already some heavy hitters signed up. I agree with the 2 at a time cutting down on the run times people will actually get their money's worth.

 

85 is good...just to far for us for a 1/2 mile.

 

If it was a mile I would attend. My last time out I ran 175mph in my totally stock car. Now I have my mods sitting in my garage waiting patiently for me to get myself motivated. So the 1/2 mile just does not have the appeal for the high horsepower cars to me.

 

I understand the whole mile thing but seriously it has to be ridiculously hard to get access to a runway like that. Most of the runways with that kind of length are high traffic areas. At least something like this is happening. If a 1/4 mile is fun than a 1/2 will be even funner. At least you get to race people instead of yourself.

 

I agree 100%....

Sad thing is, is that we have had several 1 mile events right here, 1 hour away from my house towing a trailer. So, some guys it's difficult to imagine less...since we had it soooooo good.

But,..again, I agree with you. It won't be boring,...just a hell of a ride.

 

Hope some of you guys are there I would like to meet our fellow forum members.

 

so no more mile events in south fl?

 

That is correct at least for now.

 

Yeah but I can run the local quarter mile for $15, so wouldnt $30 be about right? Just playin' with ya. Yeah they charged $150 for registration, had a promo going for the first event to get people signed up for $100 for ls1tech members. But it was $200 at the gate if you didnt pre-register. A half mile couild be pretty fun since my car usually shines in the back half of the quarter, would be fun to see how it kept up with some of those high dollar cars past 120mph

 

Is anyone gonna try and make it to this?!

 

I'm going and looking at it as mainly a 1/4-mile event with a little extra fun at the end. Plus I figure it'll be a nice, quick little vacation in a quiet (short of our cars) area.

 

Event is only 2 weeks away now and I can't wait. Check out the registrants that are coming so far looks pretty awesome!! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...24932850903294

 

are yall planning on doing any more of these in the future?

 

I've heard they are going to try and do 3-4 per year. They only have 4 spots left for this event. Some pretty awesome stuff has signed up on their Facebook page. Just type in wannagofast and you will find them.