{"id":3845,"date":"2012-11-09T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corksport.com\/blog\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2018-09-13T13:22:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T21:22:56","slug":"corksport-invades-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blog\/corksport-invades-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"CorkSport Invades Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love the Northwest and there are definitely some advantages to CorkSport<\/a> being located here, but the long distances from so many of our customers is not one of them. That is why CorkSport decided to take an event on the road and host one in San Marcos, Texas last Saturday.<\/p>\n

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We often attend events that have been organized by other members of the community like OCC, EECMM, Mazfest and the like, but this was a first for us organizing and hosting an event away from the Northwest. <\/p>\n

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Thanks in no small part to the help provided by our sponsored driver, Matt Kellogg<\/a> and his group, The Texas Mazda Speed Demons<\/a>, Dave Johnson at Roger Beasley Mazda <\/a>and of course the Philipp and his fantastic team at Harris Hill Raceway<\/a>, the first ever CorkSport and Mazda Speed Demons Texas Showdown Track Day went off without a hitch, we had a great turnout, and everyone had a great time (or at least that\u2019s the word I have been hearing on the street). <\/p>\n

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It started off a rather foggy day in San Marcos so we had to push the track start time a little, but by 10:30 it was blazing hot. Mind you, I speak coming from the 40-50 degree weather in the northwest this time of year. In reality, it was a temperate 80 degree day in Texas!<\/p>\n

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We opened the track with a lead\/follow on the 1.8 mile course located about 30 min outside of Austin and then continued with open track time for most of the afternoon. For the first three quarters of the day it was a Mazdas only event pitting Mazda against Mazda on the race track. By the afternoon, we allowed some non-Mazdas to participate as well. <\/p>\n