Beautiful Day on Monday. We enjoyed ~70 and a bit breezy during the second and final track day of this year's
event. I have updated the gallery with a bit of a cross-section of photographs from the track.
Only one incident marred an otherwise perfect day, as an acquaintance of ours lost control coming out of the last
turn and stuffed his very quick RX-7 into the outside wall. The gentleman driver was unharmed.
Some in-car video
from the GT2 will be forthcoming.
In spite of a rather dismal looking morning, the day actually shaped up to be a rather pleasant day at the track.
The rain had stopped by the time we reached the track in the morning, but it was still colder than normal (mid 50's)
and a stiff breeze didn't help anything. The track was still pretty wet by the time the first run groups started,
but a dry line had formed by the afternoon sessions, so all was good.
The Automobili Lamborghini folks were demo-ing
the new LP640 SV (for Super Veloce'). They are pretty insane looking (typical last-iteration Lamborghini fare).
Otherwise, attendance was fairly sparse on account of the weather, but good times were had by all that were there.
I
didn't get started early enough to get any of the couple-hundred pictures from the track today posted, but hopefully I
will get a chance to throw a few up tomorrow.
This was the lightest turn out for the car show that I have seen in probably 10 years (since the last time
it rained). The Cadillac Allante' club showed up in force though. I suppose they should also look at letting
some Chrysler products onto the lawn now, since they are owned by Fiat and all....
Still managed to take a few pictures
and upload them in spite of the molases connection here in BFN, Pennsylvania.
Yes, I've been a bit preoccupied lately. Since the track day at Bluegrass Motorsports got pushed
to 7/17, I wanted to find something to do. I found a NASA HPDE at Road Atlanta, and I do not regret that decision.
Everything went well, car survived, blah blah. Now I get to turn right around and head up to Pocono, PA
for the Le Belle Macchine D'Italia meet. I should return thoroughly jaded by having seen pretty much every modern
Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Maserati along with some classic fav's like DeTomaso Panteras & Mangustas. Throw in
the odd Koenigsegg, Z06, and the Porsche GT2 we are sneaking in to the pasta-fest and you have quite a collection.
I will of course post copious pictures upon my return.
As discretion oft proves the better part of valor, brevity
oft proves the better part of writing. Due to some mild retardation I have no video from my HPDE outing and
thus, on this occasion, I must hang my hat on mere words and pictures.
I will admit to some trepidation as
I unloaded my car in a driving snow storm on Friday the 12th. Camden, SC where I lodged received, in fact, 5 inches
of accumulation in about 12 hours Friday night. Fortunately, all was not lost.
UPDATE: So, as I posted in the blog section to the left, all went well. I ran somewhat
of a mini-blog on Tennspeed, and I am way too lazy to transcribe the entire thing, so in lieu of actual work, here is a link:
So, we are at it again. We loaded the GT2 onto the trailer yesterday
(Wednesday 11/11) and headed south. We pulled in today and with a favorable weather forecast, it looks like some pretty
slick stuff is going to come out of the woodwork. I snapped a few teaser pics in the garage earlier this evening, but
will post more. The link below will take you to all pictures:
Better
late to the headlines than never. TJ finally managed to get the 240 up and completely running a month or so ago.
Now it is just an issue of a little polish and fine-tuning. In honor of this momentous occasion, 3-Zero productions
presents....a ridiculous video montage
It snowed
here in Knoxville recently, and I was reminded how very incompetent most people are at driving in the white stuff. To
wit, I present to you, "how it's done":
