Mustang 50th Birthday Celebration, Las Vegas

[moto]

Hey, I just finished the third day at the event. It was like an easter egg hunt(theme for the event?) and I wanted to post some of the special things I found as there was nothing posted as a directory or schedule of events. Since there is one more day (half) tomorrow I will post some of my found surprises.

1. If you register with Ford and take a 1 minute survey ( requiring 2 separate lines) you get a wristband that entitles you to wait in another line and pick two of any of the new showroom cars(sorry no S550) and drive 1 lap on the inside roadcourse with the Miller Motorsport Instructor sitting right seat. I picked the C-Max and Mustang Convertable Base 6 Cyl and My wife did the Fusion and the Mustang. Then we got to get a right seat high speed lap in any of the Miller Motorsport Track cars. My wife went with the FR500 and I did the Fiesta ST (WOW!).

2. If you drive all the way around the side of the speedway, across from the outside road course then you could drive through the tunnel to the inside of the speedway and line up to get three highspeed hot laps on the Oval in your car.

3. The "Goodie Bags" were hidden behind all the displays in Garage 8 behind the Roush Tent.


The track day started out really slow. It was a pretty nice 2.36 mile roadcourse(back behind and outside the Speedway). It was nice and flowed really well. We had an 85 minute driver meeting
that went 25 minutes into the track going green time. Then it flowed from beginners first to advanced last, which is backwards from any event I have done. There were a few issues that interrupted the flow and we got 15 minutes of track time in the first 3 hours. The good thing was that after the lunch break things went smooth and we made it up with 4 20 minute sessions which turned out pretty good. Everyone seemed to be having much fun.
The only real downside was there was nowhere for spectators to hang out with vendors booths, etc and it wasn't advertised near the event entrance(or anywhere), so noone really knew there was an opportunity to go watch.

The big thing I was hoping for(and they didn't have) was an opportunity to get inside an S550 either to sit in or a quick ride. Kinda bummed that they couldn't hype up the new Mustangs at all!

 

[Fomoco302]

The project manager for the new Mustang was up on the turntable with the 50th anniversary Kona Blue car. He was very receptive to answering questions about he car. I did ask him about he GT350 but he claimed that wasn't his project and had no knowledge. Really?
Almost as good as the Mustang event (some might say better) was the daily air show from Nellis AFB across the road.

 

[VoodooBoss]

The first of several photos. Post up if you have photos from the event.

Heading back in from the lunchtime parade lap with my son.



Packing up for the day with Moto's and SoCalBoss's Bosses.

 

[ArizonaBOSS]

Sounds like a rough start along with the organizational issues, but it looks like everybody ended up having fun?

 

[Fomoco302]

Enjoyed meeting all you BMO folks at the Wednesday dinner at Mandalay Bay. I believe I pretty much saw and did everything Thursday and Friday so I pulled out Saturday a.m. And back home in Texas Sunday noon. I averaged 22.5 mpg @ 80 mph for the trip total of 2999.4 miles.

 

[VoodooBoss]

Re: Mustang 50th Birthday Celebration, Las Vegas PHOTOS!

Photos from Friday April 18th track day on the outside road course at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Ready to rumble


Moto



Cherno134 and CrazyHorse mixing it up


CrazyHorse



Me GT350 hunting


Cherno134 Boss 302R hunting ;D


Moto on grid


Me on grid. Anyone notice something wrong in this photo?



Fat Boss


Cherno134


CrazyHorse


Michael McGuirk, the Dir of the Pacific Coast Region of Team Shelby


The owner of JBA, this thing was FAST!




Fat Boss, Moto and me heading out onto the track




Moto braking into turn 1


302R track toy, this car was very fast


302S but I never saw it on the track


SoCalBoss, Moto and me packing up for the day

 

[VoodooBoss]

Free entertainment from some of Moto's students.

 

[moto]

A fast lap following the supercharged Boss.

[youtube]http://youtu.be/gCCgF-FNoWI[/youtube]

 

[GTMikey]

Great Photos and Video. I was in run group 3, it was fine but should have moved to 4 but there was no one in my group and a lot of open track which is good and bad. I pulled my entire grill off my LS on Thursday since it was 97 degrees, it dropped the temp 10-15 degrees. I was parked at the other end of the pits, sorry we did not meet up.

 

[ArizonaBOSS]

Sweet pics! Even a 302R!

 

[GTMikey]

A fast lap following the supercharged Boss.

Which app are you using or is not an app?

[youtube]http://youtu.be/gCCgF-FNoWI[/youtube]

 

[Fat Boss]

Sounds like a rough start along with the organizational issues, but it looks like everybody ended up having fun?

Yes. The track was a lot of fun IMO. My ST43 brake pads were incredible with no fade. I put them in before I left so we listened to them elsewhere on the trip!

Moto- Great driving!

NFSBOSS- Great pics! I'll see what I can find that hasn't been shown yet.

 

[Fat Boss]

The pits. Fun to play with all these gorgeous cars.



Crappy phone pic, but shows a lot of cars.



Bossy13



There's a real live pony in that sheetmetal if you look closely at the tears in the door.











Break.

 

[moto]

Which app are you using or is not an app?

App is harrys laptimer and race render to overlay on video. I use the iphone Bluetooth OBD and Gps all described on harrys website. Video is gopro but can use iphone video. Super easy and has most tracks or can just drive and create your own with a designated start/finish.

 

[VoodooBoss]

More photos:

The Mandalay Bay, host hotel


Andy driving his Boss


The BMO crew all lined up






I'm not sure who's Boss this belongs to but well done. I loved the red wheels on what I'll call LF04.



CrazyHorse's supercharged Boss. This thing is crazy loud and very fast on track


More cars at the event







My son the photographer

 

[VoodooBoss]

The birthday party was held at the Brooklyn Bridge at the New York New York hotel. It was VERY crowded and the food lines were VERY long. Fortunately the bar lines were not so long. ;D Anyway after eating we're standing there and a camera crew is talking to some guy and I'm not paying much attention. Then it hits me that Parnelli Jones is standing about 10 feet from me. After the crew is finished PJ is standing at a table all by himself so I walk over and introduce myself. I tell him about BMO and that it's a forum dedicated to enjoying the new Boss 302's and give him my business card and invite him to join us. Don't hold your breath on that but hey you never know. Then he mentions he will be at the event on Friday so I tell him there will be about a dozen Bosses at the road course and to stop on by and I'll give him a ride. Hey it was worth a shot. On Friday morning I tell Fat Boss and Moto that PJ might stop by so we're scrambling to find a sharpie just in case he shows up and we'll have him sign our dashboards. He never showed but I did get a photo of my son with him. PJ was very friendly and was more than willing to talk cars. Oh and while I'm talking to PJ Mark Fields comes walking up to say hello to PJ but he did say hello to me too. Ford also introduced the 2015 50th anniversary car that evening.

 

[GTMikey]

App is harrys laptimer and race render to overlay on video.

How does it pick up RPM's? Can you pick the track and it uses GPS for start finish? Is the video from the phone or a GoPro with this overlayed? Pretty sweet, want it

 

[TMSBOSS]

How does it pick up RPM's? Can you pick the track and it uses GPS for start finish? Is the video from the phone or a GoPro with this overlayed? Pretty sweet, want it

A few more questions.

Which phone?
Memory needed?
Ease of use?

I have purchased Harry's Lap Timer. Uncertain I have enough memory on current phone. Will not be able to test for a few weeks. Would like to know I have to look forward to.

 

[Badbossed]

New to the forum. Wanted to share my experience in LV. We arrived Friday at Noon after making it from Reno to Mandalay Bay in 6.5 hours . No line ups but it did seem unorganized. Checked in hotel and went to LVMS to track down the goodie bag. After asking for directions several times we found the table. The nice lady handed my "the very last bag" at about 3 pm Saturday. I checked out a lot of cool vendors and saw the 50th merchandise was almost all gone in "normal sizes" So we strolled around, aimlessly as there was no signage or help and checked out cars the rest of the day. Went to the track day on Saturday, had to be there at 7, got a speeding ticket on the way and then proceeded to wait for the marathon that was running on the track! We never got started on the track until almost 11 due to runners and some ass that parked his car in the middle of the track. Trackguys were AWESOME once the track cleared and we got racing! After 3 track sessions in the mid 90's heat at 4pm we were DONE! We did go over to the speedway and do about 10 laps around the speedway as we were the last group. (AWESOME) Did the ford ride and drive and went out for dinner. Sunday we were going to go back to the speedway to look at cars but it seemed like most cars were gone so we pulled out of LV at 10 am and home by dinner time Sunday. Whirlwind weekend, had a lot of fun and I love my car! 1000 miles roundtrip, averaged 24 mpg. I was also amazed that no Mustangs broke down on track day Saturday that I saw and it was 95 degrees. Impressive engineering in our cars IMO.
Could have been organized abit better I am sure but my family and I had a great time.

 

[VoodooBoss]

Welcome to BMO.

StangTV has an article of the event and used a photo of the BMO corral in their article. Because of the clouds I think this was taken on Friday.

http://www.stangtv.com/event-coverage/car-shows/mustang-50th-anniversary-celebration-las-vegas-same-day-coverage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mustang-50th-anniversary-celebration-las-vegas-same-day-coverage