“Let the games begin.” Or should we say “Let the delays begin?”
I drove up with four cars yesterday for some pre-Bullrun excitement before the big day. We had two Porsche twin turbos, an M6 and and Evo. We met in the morning in Greenwich and headed out from there so I snagged a seat in one of the Porsche’s and we were on our way…About two hours into our drive we all got pulled over for going slightly over the speed limit but we didn’t realize we all had slowly accelerated going on a downhill slope when the radar quickly went off. A cop comes out of no where and points us all over. He calls for back up, delays us almost an entire hour, threatens to impound all the cars and gives all the drivers a ticket for 82 in a 65.. Meanwhile, my driver and I are plotting plan B’s to get out of the car and run to Canada after all, we were on a bridge. The cops let us know that they are very aware of the Bullrun rally that will be coming through and they even claimed to have the inside on all the routes we’ll be taking as well. We were given the advice to forewarn all of our Bullrun rally drivers that anyone exceeding the speed limit or hitting triple digits in their cars will have the car immediately impounded and will be arrested… So, not exactly what we were hoping to hear on our drive up to Montreal.
The Canadian boarder had really tighten it’s ropes. I was able to get through in my car as well as Kristine Elezaj and her father in their Evo but, the M6 and the Porsche rental car from Gotham Dreams Cars that was for one of the rally drivers was held back. It really took some time to get our good friend Jason Thorgelson through who was also driving in the Porsche and wanted him to leave as well since the car wasn‘t able to come in. We got Jason across about an hour later and left Frankie (M6) back at customs trying to figure out how he was going to get his 10k back from customs.
We reached the Ritz Carlton around 9:30PM and I saw my Lotus boys, Danny Klein and Brian Newberry, who were on their way to Globe with an entourage of friends. There were only a few stickered cars outside so I decided to wait for tomorrow until I check out the garage, and party first! Our group got settled in and decided to skip out on dinner and head straight to the club. The club was SO much fun! Great people, great music, good vibes. We danced all night.. It was so good to see all the Bullrun family once again as well as my friends from the Spike TV show. Here are a few pictures I CAN show you.. The rest are off limits.. Kristine and I got up on the bar top last night.. Richard Rawlings joined us for some good o’ Bullrun fun!
















Here's the scoop on a couple cars I've had the pleasure of driving with.







Kristine Elezaj- Mitsubishi Evo. About 25k in upgrades. She’s sponsored by Ecko Red and will be releasing an EP on the Bullrun, May 16. She’s not a virgin to Bullrun either, this is her second time around with her father. www.myspace.com/kristineelezaj










Vivid Racing- 2001 996 Porsche Twin Turbo. This car looks really amazing, great paint job right?? But get up close and you’ll notice that the entire car is wrapped in vinyl. The car is actually yellow! Good thinking on Dan’s part. He’s the owner of Vivid racing, check out his website. www.vividracing.com