December 6-8, 2007 Karagiannis Racing is proud to announce it will be representing Mazda and Mazda’s North American Operations, booth #3485 at the prestigious 20th Annual Performance Racing Industry Trade Show in Orlando, Fla. Team owner and driver Dee Karagiannis has kept the fans on the edge of their seats for over 8 years and has continued this tradition in 2007 with the debut of his 2007 MazdaSpeed 3.
In Dee Karagiannis’s on going quest to burn up the legendary quarter mile he has continued to add to his list of accomplishments, 2005 NHRA World finals winner, 2006 NHRA Finalist at Atco NJ and Englishtown NJ, NHRA winner in Colorado in 2006 and winner at the NDRA Finals in Maryland. Dee Karagiannis and his team at Karagiannis Racing now hold a new best time of 7.39@184mph in 2007 making Karagiannis Racing’s MazdaSpeed 3 the quickest and fastest in the world.
Come see Dee Karagiannis and the crew of Karagiannis Racing at the 20th Annual Performance Racing Industry Trade Dec. 6-8, 2007 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

I know not rotary but it would be great to see some forum members there showing support for import Drag Racing. This is Mazda's first time at the PRI Show and it has been a long time since any major manufacturer has displayed an import drag car.

 

Have fun Dee, I doubt i'll be able to goto Florida in Dec. Keep up the good work...

Jay7...

 

Rock on........


I'd go but the drive is a little on the far side.

 

see u there

 

Hey dee. really goof to hear you guys are going to be in PRI. I was wondering if you guys were going to attend the war of the Imports event on sunday Dec 9th in orlando speedworld dragstrip? I know the AMS guys are going to be there and a lot of the local import rotary drag guys too.

 

Seems like everyone will be at the Mazda booth this weekend.
See you there Dee.

 

Thanks!! I was hoping to make that event but with the PRI show and trying to get ready for the Puerto Rico trip I am just going crazy!!!

 

Demet what's up? Tried calling you on your name day couldn't find you, good luck!

 

That sig is funny unhappy 8 owner

 

Dee do you guys have a solid date for the PR event? Is Ken & Brent also making the trip or is it just you? Im very interested in knowing the dates for this event, maybe i can get a few guys to go with me..

Aaron

 

Is that trade show open to the public or do you have to be a dealer/business to gain access???

Let me know as I would like to attend...

L8R

 

Crispeed are you going to be there? I'll be there along with a few others from Nyce1s.com. Hope to see you all there.

 

Yeah you have to be a a dealer/vendor/shop or media to gain access.

 

This is the only pic I found from the event... Any new rotary parts on display?

 

There is a ton of pictures up on agracingphoto and nyce1's. I did see some custom cnc rotors that is about all i saw for rotaries.

 

I think those are the same rotors from last year's PRI, they're made by E&J machine shop in FL but dunno if they've been tested yet..

What are the dates for the PR event? Are you the only one going from the US?

edit: I just saw a pic of Rocky & George from PAC Performance in Australia, did you meet them? Its cool that they came all the way here to visit the show, they just need to visit an event to see how we do it

 

Both George and Rocky from PAC were hanging out at CFT all weekend and were at the track all sunday for the race. I was there working on a customer's car that blew three turbos this weekend and we were there till 4am in the morning getting the turbo back together to race on sunday at OSW. Thank god CFT came through with a replacement.
It was very nice to finally meet Rocky and George in person. Also Marco(Magnus) and Brent Rau were there keeping us entertained.
I could not make it to PRI because we were buisy trying to locate a new turbo.
The aluminum rotor is in it's final stage of development and the final product should be ready for testing in a couple of weeks. I'll keep you informed.

 

Dee,

With Chevrolet Axing the Camaro in response to floundering sales of the flagship Corvette I'm wondering if Mazda might run into the same situation. How does MNAO feel about their flagship marketing tool being a RWD Mazda 3 Drag car and not a RX8? It seems (to me anyway) it's somewhat counter to Mazda's Rx8 RWD Sports car image.

Granted, the hot hatches and sports sedans are popular right now, shouldn't Mazda be trying to drum up enthusiasm for the Rx8 with it's track record of lack luster performance?


Thanks,
Mike

 

Cris you lucky bastard, how did they like the drags at OSW? You know they're the only guys down under doing their own building & tuning and they're doing a dam good job at it too.. Guess i'll have to wait till Jambo '08

Why the heck can't I get an answer about the PR tour?? My AA advantage miles is going to expire soon and I need a solid date

Also Cris I Emailed Duane from TriniTuner about the fine job "Big Daddy" is doing with the 2jz and they're running a feature on him after seeing some (nyce1's)footage from Etown... He's thinking about doing one on you aswell after seeing "V8Killa" and Domingo's Rx3, Email him if you're interested..

PR EVENT PEOPLE, I NEED A DATE

 

F1 I cannot speak for mazda but I do know that mazda is more interested in research and development in their engine platforms and less in the cars they are in or there configuration as you can tell from how much they are involved with open wheel racing that look nothing like the cars their engines come from.

Their current hot turbocharged pocket rocket that makes about 270hp from the factory happens to be the Mazdaspeed 3 so I can assume this is why they are interested in doing research and development with this particular engine. The three is priced cheap and is being rated as the best bang for the buck wich is what people want right now.

Mazda does run a RX8 in my class with ken scheepers so they are still working with the RX8 and the rotary powerplant. But the turbo 4cyl is gaining in popularity and is set to go into many road race applications in addition to my drag car.

F1 I hope this answered your questions.

Also at the PRI show i was told by many chevy people that the new camaro is def on its way very soon. I did run into the PAC guys and they met with Russ and I to demo the PCS dash logger could potentially be carrying this product for the aus customers in the future. Great guys and I enjoyed meeting them.

 

hey it was good to see some of you guys out @ the pri specially our friends from down under ROCKY and little GOERGE i hope we showed you the same hospitalaty you gaves us when we were down under , to DEE sorry about the mix up i hope JIM was able to explained it to you it was really out of our hands , to NELSON HOYOS and his DRIVIN2WIN drag racing school for giving our guys @ mazda the rush that we as drag racers are allways talking about and the CFT crew for not letting me puke in my rental top it off racing on sunday it was great to see CRISPEED out there doing his thing and to the guys that dint make it out to orlando speed world you missed out on a great event

 

No problem It worked out best for me I ended up with the best spot in the booth and ended up picking up some really good new sponsors cause you could not miss my huge blue smurf mobile Glad to see you had a great time.

 

yep thats

 

Here is my favorit pic!!!

 

Where's your left hand ? Better be on some *** !