Congrats to Matt McGrain!

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:57 am

Trophy at your first national event!!! Way to go!!! You still got beat by a Neon though :mrgreen:

Ohhh and Jim Feinberg won his class too!

JamesMilko · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:14 am

Awesome job guys.

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:00 am

ya that is totally awesome guys.

Chris Halweg · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:16 am

Congrats!

JamesShort · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:00 am

Congrats again Matt.

Now I better learn to drive this little buzzy car I just bought so I don't get my ass handed to me this year

.

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:42 am

Thanks! If anyone is one the fence about going to one of these, please do yourself a favor and ask off work now.

It was really a fun time and the level of prep on some of the cars is really a cool sight to see. Working during Super Stock in the last heat each day was unbelievable.

Altanta and Delaware (~6.5 hrs) are right around the corner in May and June.

James, I am really psyched about this season. FWIW, the Hoosiers didn't really 'feel' faster and off the line they definitely spun more than I'm used to but during the turn around they definitely showed their value.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_wuKNjThEc

Gwen Habenicht · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:10 pm

Atlanta is May 7-8. Looking forward to it. I'm already entered.

Congratulations again, Matt!

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:15 pm

well that is def a happy mothers day to you Mrs. Gwen. I am still trying to figure out how to do 2 tours dates in May and not get kicked out of the house.

Gwen Baake wrote:

Atlanta is May 7-8. Looking forward to it. I'm already entered.

Congratulations again, Matt!

Karl Shultz · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:32 pm

Sounds like somebody's hooked.

WTG Matt, that's one hell of a big event debut. I think the only 2nd I've ever gotten at a big event is 2nd from last.

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:58 pm

buy a civic! sorry couldnt resist.

Karl Shultz wrote:

Sounds like somebody's hooked.

WTG Matt, that's one hell of a big event debut. I think the only 2nd I've ever gotten at a big event is 2nd from last.

Aaron Buckley · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:02 pm

Yeah, getting a 2nd in a good size field in your first event is awesome. Congrats Matt. I probably won't be doing any Tours until the STR car is ready, which means Toledo in July, but you should consider a ProSolo too. Makes Tours seem not so fun anymore

- AB

JohnByers · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:17 pm

That is absolutely awesome Matt! Woot! :thumbsup:

Eric Peterson · **Joined:** Mon Sep 01, 2003 10:24 am **Posts:** 494

Congratulations on an awesome job Matt! I'm not surprised at all - your driving looked really strong last year!

Eric

JamesFeinberg · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:21 pm

Matt looked really good out on course, that's for sure. He may have been a tad nervous the first day but it didn't show in his driving and I know there are some people in GS now wondering where in the heck he came from.

Great job again Matt!

It was also a ton of fun hanging out with Matt all weekend. As we always say, if you're going there just for the 5 minutes of seat time, you're missing out on 95% of the event.

Jim
- likely my last post before the great forum purge of 2011, goodbye cruel world!

Keith Vail · **Posted:** Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:54 am

Huge congrats Matt! It is kind of a sickness once you start going to these events you keep getting called back to them.

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