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Raptor Roundup - July 16, 2011 - New Mexico
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<blockquote data-quote="SOCOMech" data-source="post: 49953" data-attributes="member: 255"><p>I'm gonna go ahead and weigh in on this with my opinion based off of being at the past 2 Round-Up's. Honestly, if you don't have a Raptor and want to know what they're about, crawl all over one and even drive it, then it could be a cool time. If you're already an owner and look forward to tearing it up on the race track in your own, don't bother. The first round-up was a great time and they had Ford engineer's who worked on the Raptor ride around the track with you. They were telling us to hit the table top at 45mph. Needless to say, it was a good time getting sideways around turns and letting it rip. The second round-up that was held here in Phoenix was a super watered down insurance fest. Top speed on the track (a LOORRS track mind you) was 35mph. 3.......5........mph. And if you didn't hear that the many times they told you in the "none of you know what you're doing" safety brief, they actually put up speed limit signs on the track. Owners had a specific time that they were to go out on the track but it became a cluster f and you found yourself going around asking who to talk to about being able to go out. I don't know if the VORE guys will be handling this one but most of them seem to carry a holyier than though approach and act as if a currennt owner doesn't know what to do. For instance, they wanted to get a video and aerial photo of some Raptors going around the track together. Instead of letting current owners or even some other folks drive around the track, they put the whole thing on hold so that the VORE guys could drive the trucks around the track and get the pics taken. C'mon, let the fans be bit more involved. It very much catered to people who didn't own one and the engineers who had showed at the first weren't at this one either. It was mostly all the VORE guys that rode with you. Now some would be a little bit more leniant on the speed limit but not by alot. I myself got to run twice on the track (as opposed to multiple times at the first one) and ended up getting asked to leave the track on my second time out. Why? Because I decided to pitch the tail end around through a couple of turns and let my exhaust sing a song or two. I had a ton of people come to me and say it was good to see even a flash of how fun the truck could be and some even booed when the guy told me to come off the track. The best part of the event is meeting other raptor owners, so if that's what you're looking to do, then it's great. If you're looking to have a good time on a real race track, save your gas and car wash money, so not worth it. I will say the people that do show from Ford are very nice and talk to everybody and do their best to answer any questions. I was just hugely disappointed with the track time, attitude of some of the VORE people, it being a blatant safety fest (which I can understand to an extent) and owners being put on the back burner. Just my honest .02.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SOCOMech, post: 49953, member: 255"] I'm gonna go ahead and weigh in on this with my opinion based off of being at the past 2 Round-Up's. Honestly, if you don't have a Raptor and want to know what they're about, crawl all over one and even drive it, then it could be a cool time. If you're already an owner and look forward to tearing it up on the race track in your own, don't bother. The first round-up was a great time and they had Ford engineer's who worked on the Raptor ride around the track with you. They were telling us to hit the table top at 45mph. Needless to say, it was a good time getting sideways around turns and letting it rip. The second round-up that was held here in Phoenix was a super watered down insurance fest. Top speed on the track (a LOORRS track mind you) was 35mph. 3.......5........mph. And if you didn't hear that the many times they told you in the "none of you know what you're doing" safety brief, they actually put up speed limit signs on the track. Owners had a specific time that they were to go out on the track but it became a cluster f and you found yourself going around asking who to talk to about being able to go out. I don't know if the VORE guys will be handling this one but most of them seem to carry a holyier than though approach and act as if a currennt owner doesn't know what to do. For instance, they wanted to get a video and aerial photo of some Raptors going around the track together. Instead of letting current owners or even some other folks drive around the track, they put the whole thing on hold so that the VORE guys could drive the trucks around the track and get the pics taken. C'mon, let the fans be bit more involved. It very much catered to people who didn't own one and the engineers who had showed at the first weren't at this one either. It was mostly all the VORE guys that rode with you. Now some would be a little bit more leniant on the speed limit but not by alot. I myself got to run twice on the track (as opposed to multiple times at the first one) and ended up getting asked to leave the track on my second time out. Why? Because I decided to pitch the tail end around through a couple of turns and let my exhaust sing a song or two. I had a ton of people come to me and say it was good to see even a flash of how fun the truck could be and some even booed when the guy told me to come off the track. The best part of the event is meeting other raptor owners, so if that's what you're looking to do, then it's great. If you're looking to have a good time on a real race track, save your gas and car wash money, so not worth it. I will say the people that do show from Ford are very nice and talk to everybody and do their best to answer any questions. I was just hugely disappointed with the track time, attitude of some of the VORE people, it being a blatant safety fest (which I can understand to an extent) and owners being put on the back burner. Just my honest .02. [/QUOTE]
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