For the road racing fans

[Daveand Barbie]

Just for grins, and to renew some old friendships, I took a ride down to Daytona for the 24 hour race. It was beautiful weather albeit rather chilly at night, and the racing was great. A few takeaways from the weekend:

 

1. The Delta Wing car is crazy fast. It was involved in an unfortunate incident at the 4 hour mark and was retired. I hope they don't rewrite the rules to outlaw it in the future.

 

2. There has not been a more dominant team than the factory Corvettes. At the finish, after 24 hours, they finished 1st and 2nd, thousandths of a second part.

 

3. The new grandstands/stadium is fabulous. It has ll the amenities of a major league football stadium. It should be though, for 400 million.

 

i am going to go back for th bike races. Being close like I am, it would be silly to not go.

[Guest Jamsie]

This is Real Road Racing

[cowpuc]

OUTSTANDING DAVE!!! Sounds like a RIOT but,,,, gotta say it and you know what I am gonna say,,, 's 's and more 's

[Daveand Barbie]

OK, OK, OK, they will be in the mail shortly.

 

i will describe them here so I don't have to make multiple errors typing on my phone.

 

I was taking photos from the grandstand, at turn 1. One is looking back in to the tri oval with cars coming. All the GT cars have yellow lenses to distinguish themselves from the Prototype cars.

 

Another photo is just after the Delta Wing crashed in turn 1. You can see the emergency vehicles in the right of the photo and the IMSA docs car sitting there.

 

I also took a photo of the new grandstands from the infield. The grandstand is 9/10 mile long.

 

I didn't get photos of the finish, I was in a friends pit stall and could barely see over th crowd.

[videoarizona]

Pulls a wheelie at 190mph. Sigh...cool...but not for me.

[Mike G in SC]

I saw the Delta crash happen on TV. They replayed the audio between driver and spotter after the crash. Driver "why didn't you tell me he was there?". Spotter "I spent the last full minute telling you there is a car stopped in turn one, I said it over and over, car in turn one!!!!" They had a failure to communicate.

[cowpuc]

Got the pics @Daveand Barbie, BEAUTIFUL!!! Still got some major puter problems going on here - otherwise I would post them up so all can see. Looks like you folks are having a BLAST down there!!