The Festivals of Speed are a series of weekends full of the finest automobiles, motorcycles, watercraft and aircraft on display to the public. Held at exclusive venues around Florida, Festivals of Speed also showcase premium jewelry, art, food, cigars, wine and spirits for those who enjoy a lavish lifestyle.

On Sunday April 3rd, 2011, Festivals of Speed will be held in St. Petersburg, Florida. Presented by Bert Smith Porsche, the event will be located at North Straub Park across from the Renaissance Vinoy Hotel from 10:00am – 4:00pm. If this sounds like your kind of  thing Tickets may be purchased online or at the event at $10.00 per person.

As the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance comes to a close today, BMW has posted two videos that give us a small glimpse of what the show had to offer. As I was not able to attend this one, seeing the cars in 720p is better than nothing. Sure these videos are a bit of advertisement for BMW but who cares, they still show off some amazing rides. This was the last Concours in Florida for a while. The next one will be in Winter Park, Florida on the 5th and 6th of November this year. If you didn’t get a chance to attend the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, mark your calender for Winter Park, and enjoy the video.

We have got a ton of FREE tickets to the Palm Beach Auction that’s coming up from March 18th – 20th at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. Our friends at Festivals of Speed hooked us up with a fat stack to giveaway.

So who wants to go? Tickets normally cost between $10-$20, per day, per person, but we have got them FREE for you!

Getting the tickets is simple.
1) Hit our Facebook Page and ‘Like’ us.
2) Post on our wall the following: “Rezmoto, hook me up with Palm Beach Auction Tickets: ____“. In the blank, put how many tickets you want.
3) I will comment on your wall-post, which means that Ive added you to the list that will be at the front desk at the event.

By liking our page, you will be able to follow any event updates or notifications.

Keep in mind that each ticket is good for 1 person, for 1 day. So if you want two tickets for all three days, please request 6 tickets.

See you there!

(Source: Active Autowerke)

The BMW Tuning house Active Autowerke is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a series of socials. March 12th is the date of their spring social taking place at their shop in Miami. At the event, you can meet Active staff and other BMW enthusiasts. There will be food, drinks, raffles, and giveaways. Showcased at the event will be Active’s project cars along with their full line of superchargers and other performance and body parts. If checking out BMW’s and talking to their fans sounds like a good time, go check out Active Autowerke’s Spring Social.

Our friends at Festivals of Speed have hooked us up again with 3 sets of 4-day Superticket’s for the 12 Hours of Sebring in March. The 59th Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by “Fresh from Florida” takes the green flag at 10:00 am Saturday, March 19th. Gates open Wednesday, March 16, and remain open 24 hours a day through Saturday.

Festivals of Speed is gearing up for their next two events, Mission Inn on March 5th & 6th and St. Petersburg from April 1st to 3rd. As always, we expect these two events to be top notch. If your near either of these two areas, I strongly suggest you check out the events. Event schedules are listed in the links above. In celebration of the upcoming events, Festivals of Speed is giving away tickets to the 59th Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. These 4-day Superticket’s cover you from Wednesday to Saturday. These tickets retail for $100 each, so Festivals of Speed is hooking it up with $600 worth of tickets!

The Festivals of Speed is expanding in 2011 to include a Motorsports Gathering & Luxury Lifestyle Display at the Mission Inn Resort & Club in Howey-in-the-Hills. This inaugural showing, set for March 5th and 6th, will benefit Florida Hospital Waterman. This unique new event weekend will feature luxury receptions, a golf classic, driving tour, and automotive gathering. Attendees will have a rare opportunity to appreciate automotive masterpieces of design and engineering in a setting that if both festive and elegant. The 8th Annual Festivals of Speed St. Pete, will return April 1-3 with the best in luxury lifestyle as well as an increased display of rare vintage & contemporary aircraft, exotic cars, custom-created motorcycles, and high performance boats and yachts.

Three (3) lucky winners will be selected over a period of 5 days. Each winner will be given two (2) 4-day Superticket’s for the 12 Hours of Sebring, which means you will be able to bring your friend, family member, or significant other.

Here is how to play:

Step 1: Visit the Festivals of Speed Facebook page.

Step 2: ‘Like’ their page.

Step 3: Leave a comment on their wall that says – “Rezmoto says enter me to win 12 Hours of Sebring tickets!”

Step 4: Sit back and hope your one of the 3 randomly chosen winners!

Remember, the contest starts immediatly and will end on Tuesday March 1st at midnight. Winners will be announced shortly after the contest ends via Facebook private message from the Festivals of Speed team.

Hope to see you all there!

(Source: T. Hanson Motorsports)

This past weekend started the Rally America season with Sno*Drift. I have always loved rally racing; the sudden change in driving conditions, getting sideways, and racing against the clock is all fun to watch. This year’s Sno*Drift did not disappoint. History was made with the father and son team of Travis and Terry Hanson who won overall with a super production class 2007 Subaru Impreza WRX STi. Generally the Open class cars are the ones who take the podium as they are much less restricted and have much larger budgets backed by Subaru and Ford. Super production class cars have many more restrictions on what can be modified to the car. Teams also have a much smaller budget and less sponsors making it hard to compete with the open class. With all the odds stacked against them driver skill is what led Travis and Terry to first place this past weekend, congratulations guys.

Being my first LA AutoShow, I had no idea what to expect, so I was quite surprised, in lieu of our current economic situation, at the caliber and intelligence of new releases the manufacturers brought out.

By far Porsche killed it with their own little mini hall highlighting their past, present and future. As soon as you walked in, you were greeted by this little humble brilliant blue 356 speedster framed in its own little display, dramatic lighting cluing you into what you were about to experience.

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This years Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show was the show of all shows. Just when you think you have been to a mega-show, think again. We estimate we walked about 100 miles of show grounds during our 5 day Vegas trip. Lets just say that we car guys would much rather have driven that distance than walked it, but the rental-cart booth was sold-out each day we checked. Anyone who has anything to do with the automotive market attends this show, from buyers to

wholesalers to distributors to retailers to media. We being the latter, we were among the smaller groups in attendance. Thousands of buyers from all around the world flew into Vegas for SEMA, which was evident from the multitude of languages we overheard as we traipsed the Las Vegas Convention Center. With press conferences, seminars, celebrity appearances, unveilings, and autograph sessions happening all over the place, it was hard to stay on track and make sure we hit the whole show. Rest-assured, my throbbing feet will verify we did our best to hit every aisle and hall. From the New Product Showcase to Mobile Electronics, we saw it all.

If not for a blown coil-pack on day 4, the trip would have been perfect. Big thanks to Audi of Henderson, NV for bailing us out big-time. Maybe next year we will rent a car. Nah… Not with the winding roads of the Vegas desert.

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