NICOfest at Carlisle Performance and Style 2012

After being on staff with NICO for an entire decade, one of our moderators gives a first-hand account of the festivities… You don’t want to miss this!

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NICOfest at Carlisle Performance and Style 2012 (Part 6)

The drink flowed and everyone was enjoying themselves. NICO members basically take over the entire facility for the weekend. So you have lots of people, with tons in common, all in one place, with a keg of Yuengling. Everyone breaks off into their respective cliques, usually by make and model, which was pretty funny. To [...]

NICOfest at Carlisle Performance and Style 2012 (Part 5)

Since it was Mother’s Day Weekend, one of the drifters brought his Mom out for a spin. She was clearly apprehensive after having watched the event all day and seeing how fast people were entering and exiting portions of the track. Then he mentioned that his bumper might catch fire, since his exhaust was dumping [...]

NICOfest at Carlisle Performance and Style 2012 (Part 4)

After a couple hours of open autocross we switched to open drift. This entailed moving the cones off the track and letting the drift guys abuse the track as they saw fit. The track at Carlisle is pretty narrow with 90* turns at all 4 corners, That didn’t deter the drift guys from diving into [...]

NICOfest at Carlisle Performance and Style 2012 (Part 3)

Saturday starts with breakfast at the Middlesex Diner for most of the NICO staff. You just can’t have this many cool people sitting around a table, sharing great food and drink and not enjoy yourself. I walked out full and happy for $6.50, that’s with 3 coffee’s. Great Diner! Trackside by 0800, time to walk [...]

NICOfest at Carlisle Performance and Style 2012 (Part 2)

At about 2000 we walked over to TGI Fridays for dinner, all 45 of us. It was barely controlled chaos in the bar room as the wait staff did their best to keep up with orders and track down people that refused to stay in one seat. Something known as “Purple Drink” showed up in [...]