Greddy Performance Festival

We love it when track days are close to home. This rarely happens however, since California Speedway and Irwindale Speedway are the only tracks close to us, and neither of them hold drift events anymore! Luckily for us, Greddy helds its first ever open to the public performance festial. Designed to be an interactive event with multiple chances to drive, they also wanted to display their current crop of products so people could actually get a feel for what Greddy makes. A few lucky people even got to test drive their fleet vehicles which are equipped with some awsome Greddy goodies.

We signed up for the autocross and drift portion. I've never actually done an autocross before (only open track days, and wheel to wheel) so I thought it would be an interesting experience to finally get a feel for it. Some of the other guys who signed up for the drift were looking forward to driving in an event that wasn't going to kill their stamina or wallet to get to.

The autocross course was fairly straight forward. No real long straights, one big decreasing radius sweeper, and mostly left and right chicanes. Overall it think only 5 people throughout the day had at time that was faster than mine, and that included a few Miata's on full Hoosier slicks.

The drift event however, left some people a little upset. Apparently the run time wasn't delegated properly and there were just too many people. Most drivers didn't get to do more than 2 runs per hour, which equates to only about 8 runs total for the day.

Even though the event was filled, it sounds like the venue wasn't too happy with the way things were being run, so the event is now in question as to whether or not it'll happen again next year. Contact Greddy and let them know its worth it, and that an event like this one are few and far between!