If anyone here is interested, we're renting a 2 mile long runway about an hour from Miami on February 22nd. We'll have a tent set up, serve breakfast/lunch and have beverages and snacks available throughout the day as the runway is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Good news though is that it's 2 miles long, smooth and if your car reach 200MPH you'll definitely be able to do it, and it'll be in a safe environment without having to worry about other cars or a nasty ticket... We already have a bunch of cars signed up for the event including: TT Gallardos TT Ford GTs Diablo 6.0 Twin SC Enzo LP640s Carrera GT 599 GT2 LP560-4s Gallardo SL Gallardo Spyders Ferrari 360/430 Nissan GTR Saleen S7 and more... Possible appearances by Veyron and MC12. This event is part of our SoBe Getaway Weekend trip, but we have opened this for everyone and you don't have to be signed up for the whole weekend to take part in the Runway portion of the Weekend. PM or email for details and signup...
Let's see....the runway is an hour from Miami and it's 2 miles long..... does anyone have a clue where that might be? Also, will medical personnel be on hand in case something goes wrong?
Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport Alligators and wildlife should be your biggest concern. Isn't this where they do the 200mph club with World Class Driving? here's the location of KTNT http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=25.863433,-80.898728&spn=0.01842,0.047035&t=h&z=15
Intresting airstrip.... (Wikipedia) "This isolated airport, located within the Florida Everglades, was originally planned to be the largest airport in the world. Begun in 1968, the Everglades Jetport was to be a six runway airport for supersonic aircraft. Because of environmental concerns, construction was halted after the completion of just one runway. The facility remains in use today as an aviation training facility." Looks like fun, I still would like to know about spectators.
Free to watch, small charge for breakfast/lunch. Yes. Please ask here, PM or email me with any questions. That's correct. See above.
Thanks Hovik! Great to hear that spectators are welcome. One last thing any approximate time this is gonna take place so I can plan my day around it....
.................... The 22n'd is the day I had the run down to Everglades City for Stone Crab lunch planned.........how late will this event last, since I may be enticed to come back before 3pm.........
I was thinking about this last night...........If I did the math correct, wouldn't you need a longer runway??? At 200 MPH, you cover 2 miles in 0.6 minutes, or 36 seconds....... So, if within this 2 miles you also need to include the acceleration and braking part of this, you would only be able to see 200 MPH for a few seconds............
It's totally awesome! Thanks so much for posting it up here so people can watch / participate. I'm tempted to at least go see this. BT
that is correct, not sure how long, but yes, i would imagine you would test your car at speed til you reached some kinda of red zone where you'd have to brake hard.
