Playersrun 2007 Updates

[Des]

Start:
http://www.gtspirit.com/2007/09/12/p...rt-in-calgary/

Day 1:
http://www.gtspirit.com/2007/09/13/p...hn-and-ashley/

Day 2:
http://www.gumball144.com/alex/playe...alt-lake-city/
http://www.gumball144.com/alex/playe...ne-checkpoint/
http://www.gumball144.com/alex/ashle...idaho-polizei/

Day 3:
http://www.gtspirit.com/2007/09/14/p...-to-las-vegas/

Day 4:
http://www.gtspirit.com/2007/09/16/p...o-los-angeles/

Day 5:
http://www.gtspirit.com/2007/09/19/p...les-san-diego/

[PX]

Great new updates !

[Des]

Players Run 2007 Salt Lake City

Update #3 Day 3:

Alex Roy just posted an update he received from his friend and former co-pilot John Goodrich (aka Nine):

We left the Monaco Hotel in Salt Lake City at 0930hr Mountain Time with a police escort out of town. Not 5 minutes after we left the escort, Ashley got pulled for no aparent reason. The cop was friendly enough, asked us a few questions and then let us go, but not before every SINGLE car in the rally passed us waving and honking. Back on the road after a 15 minute delay, we knew we had our work cut out for us. A few miles down the road we saw Jonathan Katz in the LP640 pulled as well. Apparently he got the same friendly warning we did. With Friday metro traffic, there was not much to be done and we did not see a single rally car for miles. We feared the worst, last posiiton.

Ashley got us out of town and picked up the pace, but we still did not see any other cars. We phoned a few friends and found out that miracolously we had passed a number of cars who apparently pulled off together for fuel. A few other guys stopped for lunch, vacation style.

We chose the Polizei lunch method, gas stop, taco bell and out in less than 4 minutes. I took the wheel outside of Cedar City, UT at 12:24 PM Mountain Time according to the gas reciept and began my chicken burrito in the left hand Aston assault. It was a fast, beautiful ride down I-15 South, with little police and lots of scenery. We arrived at the Andretti Racing school at 2:20 Mountain Time, 1:20 Pacific in P1.

We have checked into the Wynn, showered and are returning to the track to turn some laps at 4PM.

Ashley has yet to accept my vegas marriage proposal, but we have not had any drinks yet and the chapel is open 24 hours. I checked.

Jon9

Thanks to Alex Roy

[Des]

Players Run 2007 to Las Vegas

Update #4 Day 3:

And we received another message from Ashley:

I just got back to the Wynn from Las Vegas motor speedway where we all got the Mario Andretti Indy car experience. I drove very close behind the guy in front of me and my eyes are still buring from the methanol. lol. 944 magazine came out and shot me…big thanks to those guys! In my room getting ready to do some press and media with afterdark360.com.

[Des]

Day 4: Las Vegas to Los Angeles

[Des]

John Goodrich Day 4 update:

http://www.gtspirit.com/2007/09/16/p...o-los-angeles/

After arriving first to the Las vegas Motor Speedway yesterday, we went to the Wynn, checked in and returned to the Speedway for the Mario Andretti Indy Experience. Was truly unique in that we got to drive a real indy car at speed on a perfectly banked NASCAR oval. Ashley pushed her instructor to almost 150 MPH in the six laps she turned and we both agreed that it was an experience we would not soon forget.



After a couple of photo shoots, we finally got a chance to ‘relax’ vegas-style. I went to Tao to meet up with an old friend I haven’t seen in years. All I can say about that is dear god. Ashley went to posh nightclub Moon for drinks with the all the boys. Not exactly sure what time we got back to our room, but I do vaguely remember being starving, ordering room service and then blacking out only to be woken up by the poor room service guy pounding on the door. I took 2 bites of the turkey burger I ordered and blacked out again.

Day 4: Taking advantage of the Vantage

As I am sure you can imagine, the morning in Vegas is never easy. We woke up this morning hurting a bit, but a shower and a couple Excedrin later, we were back in action and made our way downstairs to see who else was functional. At 10AM, every car in the private area of the garage was still there and not to many players were even kicking around the hotel, so we decided to have some breakfast. After all, this is supposed to be a vacation, right?

After breakfast, we met up with Brian and Dustin from Mishief.tv,
The Katzs in the LP and Taxi John Eltringham in the yellow Murcy and shoved off for Lambo Vegas. The place was insane. Must have $100 million in hardware under the roof of that place, including an MC12, Veyron, Versace Mucry, a couple of Spikers, S7 and a Carrera GT and that was just in the front of the showroom. We took some pictures and shoved off.

Shortly after getting on the highway, everybody we were with decided they were desperately in need of food (since they had not had the luxo breakfast we did at the Wynn), so we peeled off on our own and headed south towards LA. I took us into the Ghost Town checkpoint, Ashley drew us another King of Diamonds (so we are now working a pair of kings) and took over driving.

The Aston Assault continued all the way into LA with Ashley employing some of the Polizei safety techniques we have been working on all week. Her pace and effort were strong and we made great time getting into town, that is of course until we hit the 10. As usual, it was pretty much dead, so we turned up the a/c and coasted in with everybody else.

We arrived at the Mondrian in LA to find an SLR stuck on the kooky hill-style driveway of the hotel. The scraping sound when he pulled out sounded like at least 5 grand. Ouch.

We are now pool side relaxing with drinks and sunning ourselves.
Gotta love the short leg.

Jon9


Photos:
http://photos.gtspirit.com/thumbnails.php?album=69

[Tul]

Asley is gorgeous.

[PX]

Great update!!!!

[Des]

Final Update

Day 5:

http://www.gtspirit.com/2007/09/19/p...les-san-diego/

[PX]

Great final update Des!