Thursday, September 13, 2007

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines

The cars and drivers being introduced for one of the trophy dashes (the tow truck was the pace car last night)
You can see the accident and emergency vehicles on the far side of the track. Everyone immediately stopped where they were (except the guy in the lower left of the picture - the blurrr)

Seth, Matt, Beve and I went to the races last night and had a good time. The weather was great, the crowd was medium, the tattoos were interesting and the beer was flowing. Oh Yea, the racing was good too. Lots of thrills and spills. The "Bump to Pass" (big old boats) were a little low in numbers (8 cars) but they made up for it in excitement. One guy spent the whole race pulling up behind cars and gently pushing their rear ends to the side and causing them to spin out (I know there is a term for this - Matt knows it). There was even one major wreck over against the far wall. They brought out the red flag (everyone stops immediately, right where you are so they can bring out the ambulance), but in the end everyone drove away from the wreck except one car that had to be towed. I got home at 12:45am and had to get up at 5:30am for work. I took a little power nap at work.
That's it for now. See you Denverites in a could of weeks.
Dad