Hi I'm Blane Burnett with Holley performance, we're out at the 7th annual Holley LS Fest
here in Bowling Green, Kentucky at Beech Bend Race Way.
We've got a lot going on out here at the event, drifting, drag racing, autocrossing, and more.
The event has evolved quite a bit because you have such a plethora of different disciplines,
drag, autocross, drift, and then throwing everybody into this mix is just fantastic.
The comradery, all the people, the friendly faces, and how it's evolved, the car builds
over the years are amazing.
So we started LS Fest in 2010 and this is our 7th year.
We've got way more people than we've ever anticipated and it's just amazing to see what
GM's LS engine has brought together.
It's the largest all LS event that you can go to in the country if not the world, so
whether you want to jump on the LS bandwagon or not.
They fit into anything you want to put them in and people build entire vehicles around
this engine, and so it's been just a tremendously successful phenomenon in the automotive industry.
You have so many different things going on at once so it's just an overload of the sense
of anything LS related.
Alright, we're out here at day one of Holley LS Fest here in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Lots of cars out here, lot's of folks and lot's of events going on, let's check them
out.
Hey my name's Dylan Hall.
We're out here at Holley 2016 LS Fest, having a ball.
Loving every minute of it.
Troy Russell from Carterville, Illinois.
It's incredible how all the competitions laid out, very well put together.
It runs like a well put together clock every year, it's excellent.
Oh the motor swap challenge is pretty awesome, I like to watch it every year, shows some
pretty good talent.
Our first year here was actually in 2009, we were asked to come out and do a drift demo
for Blane Burnett.
Got on horse power TV, put Joe Elmore in the car, took him around for a few laps and we've
been here every year since.
Hey how's it going guys?
I'm Jonathan Nerren, I'm here with the team, all 3 cars, they're S14 240SX with LS swaps.
There's a couple of superchargers on there and we're here to put on a show.
Yeah the incoming weather forecast is definitely going to make for some interesting racing
this afternoon.
Wet conditions are going to make things interesting.
We're back out here, it's day 3, Holley LS Fest.
Great attendance for day 3 with that rain delay we had yesterday and it's going to be
a great show.
My name's Danny Popp, I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio, running the 3S challenge here on Sunday.
At the LS Fest how it all works for the grand champion competitors are there are 2 separate
autocross events, the 3S challenge that we're running today, and a drag strip event on the
Beech Bend track here.
So basically what happens is, you run every event, you go as fast as you can and they
give you points as far as your placement, so at the end it's a cumulative total of how
many points you get to how how you place with all the events for scoring for the overall
grand champion.
Hi I'm Larry Morgan, I'm out here driving one of the Chevy COPOs for Holley this weekend.
A Chevy COPO is a central office production order car that Chevrolet sells.
COPOs started back in the 60's, you had hotrod guys that wanted to buy a car that had a hotrod
engine in them and these things came with 427s back then.
I'm A.J.
Currie I'm from North Carolina.
We got the 2012 COPO, it's straight from the factory ready to race.
It comes, you know, 427 engine, power glide transmission you know, all the kitten caboodles
of drag slicks.
You can pick it up from the dealership and go straight out and go drag racing.
The event is awesome, I've never seen this many COPO cars together at one point.
This is a fun event, this is not a super competitive event, we want everybody to have fun here.
The faint appeal, everybody's into it, I like that, I think it's cool.
Yesterday, ran into some rain delays, actually rained out the drift event unfortunately but
we did get to squeeze in a good amount of practice in so these guys are out here giving
the crowd a show, we're going straight from qualifying to top 16 bracket and whoever qualifies
higher leads so your number 1 qualifier will lead and the 16th qualifier will follow his
lead.
The follow driver will have the lead driver act as a moving clipping point and the lead
driver will basically run a qualifying run, they'll come back, the 2 cars will switch
positions, the follow car will now be the lead car, and they'll go after it.
They're going to be judged on overall impact, angle, and the race line that they're running
in.
The goal is just to stick it to everybody's door that we can get to and knock out as many
people as possible.
Alright guys, we just finished putting a bowtie on this fantastic event, Holley LS Fest for
2016.
If you guys liked what you saw and you want of take advantage of that on the west coast,
look forward to LS Fest West, that's coming all the way from Bowling Green to the west
coast in Los Vegas, Nevada, May 5th, 6th, and 7th of 2017.
So if you're into drag racing, drifting, autocross, 3S challenge and more events, come on out
to LS Fest in Las Vegas, mark your calendars