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It’s the sixth annual Holley LS Fest in Bowling Green, Kentucky. This event features racers and enthusiasts from all over the USA, with everything from Chevy muscle cars powered by GM’s LS engine platform, to wild and crazy swaps. There’s drag racing, road racing, drifting, autocross, a car show, swap meet and so much more. LS Fest is truly a bucket list event for any red blooded small block or bow-tie enthusiast.
Friday
It seems every year it has to rain at least once on LS Fest. That was the case Friday afternoon. Test ’n Tune runs hadn’t been going very long on Beech Bend’s quarter-mile before mother nature but an end to the drag racing for the day.
A new schedule has been posted for Saturday and we’re working to get our hands on that now.
Rain didn’t put a stop to things on the autocross course. Even though two storm systems moved through, soaking things even further the second time around.
Autocross
The rain didn’t stop the action on the LS Fest Autocross. Set up by members of the KY Region SCCA, this course runs rain or shine. The only short delay in autocross action today was caused by some lightning that quickly passed the area. Cars were splashing through deep puddles, and sliding all over the place.
We took a ride with Brian Preston in his 1LE Camaro on the wet and slippery course. Preston’s ability to control the car didn’t impress all the officials, and he was warned to not kill so many cones the next time around.
Right after the autocross course had really started to dry out, the rain started up again, flooding the course with water.
We also rode shotgun with Brian Shelley in his WS6 Trans Am. Despite a bent valve in the car’s LS1, Shelley was still putting down impressive times with the old TA.
Brian Shelley’s WS6 makes a big splash on the autocross.
What we love about LS Fest is the diversity of cars that you find in all of the events. The autocross featured everything from classic and contemporary GM musclecars to imports that have been LS swapped. There will be plenty of examples of this in every event all weekend long.
This malibu had us drooling. We normally see these cars set up for street/strip duty. Here you can see it making the corners quite well on the autocross course. We’ll be looking for the owner of the car tomorrow.
There's no shortage of classic iron built for Pro Touring on the autocross.
There were plenty of late model Vette's as well.
Drifting action is up tonight as rain appears to have moved out for the evening. It looks like the weather will cooperate for the rest of the weekend and tomorrow we’ll be in full overload as we scramble to cover all the cool cars and happenings at this year’s event. Keep checking back here for our latest videos, huge photo gallery, and more from the 2015 LS Fest.
