I spent the day at Portland International Raceway with a small subset of the Mt. Hood Miata Club. We met for breakfast at a Holiday Inn close to the racetrack before heading over to over for the SpeedTour that incorporates several different classes of car racing.
It also included a Hagerty: Cars & Caffeine, which is a car show for all kinds of automobiles in about 7 or 8 different classes. This is how we got in the event, at a cost of $50. That might seem like a lot, and it sort of is, but it included admission to the track for all 3 days (Fri, Sat & Sun) of the event for 2 people and your entry into the car show. The Miata is in the “sports car” class for show judging, and there were too many much cooler cars than our relatively “new” cars for us to win anything. My only chance at winning a prize was if there was a category for most stickers on the inside of a trunk lid.
I enjoyed myself and will probably go again next year.
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- Portland International Raceway
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- Original Five Miatas—We had 4 more join us a little later.
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- Everyone could get a free strawberry shortcake if you knew about it or found where that tent was.
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- Chopped Bug—our car show competition.
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- BMW 2002—our car show competition.
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- Datsun 240Z—our car show competition.
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- IMSA Big Boys In The Pits
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- V-8 Camry?—This is an IMSA car amongst the Mustangs & 911s.
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- Color Spot—I had no idea my camera had this setting, and I don’t know how I turned it on.
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- Prototype Sprint Series Car—Kind of a Le Mans-style car.
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- 1st Gen Miata—There were just two of them in Group 1 competition.
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- Herbie’s Faster Brother—another Group 1 entrant.
