Monday, August 07, 2006

Is racing season almost done???

I wasn't going to go this time. I had told Daddy to go by himself (well, with his friends, just without me!) but Friday came and he was all puppy-eyed about me going. So I went.
I'm a sucker for his puppy dog eyes. Puppy 3

Anyway: this time I have photos! YAY!
First: The drifting competition. Drifting is an art form, I truly love watching this and it was the first time I've ever been able to see it in person. (The link has videos so you can see what I'm talking about.) The photo shown above is of A FEMALE DRIVER so I am posting it proudly. She ended up crashing during practice and getting some pretty bad damage to her car, but she still came into the competition strong.

Next:Beautiful artwork on one of the racecars. We arrived about a half hour before the doors opened, and when the doors opened it was still about an hour before any competitions started so we walked around to look at the prepping. I love the artwork on this car, it was done with such careful detail. This is just the door, I couldn't get a shot of the hood like I wanted because the stupid glare of the morning sun...
Then there was the Marines' Hummer.Someone else had posted a picture and the story of another Hummer, and I can't find the post. So MomisNutz, I'm almost positive it was you that had the post, this one is for you.

Then our friend .L. put her car up on the Dyno to see just how much power it has...
It came back having 172 horses to the wheels...not bad for a daily driver!

And the best photo for the mommies...

While I don't know how safe it is, here is a photo of a mommy with her twin girls on a 4 wheeler. The girls are in car seats, which was what I thought was cute and why I took the photo.
It was a full weekend event, since it was being held by Nopi, but we couldn't stay the whole weekend. We wish we could have...
It was fun. I'm glad Daddy gave me the puppy dog eyes so that I'd go. My cousin had a blast, too. He's already making plans to come up for the next races so he can go with Daddy....I'm not going...

maybe...

2 comments:

dennis said...

Racing season? I thought it was year round..?

(can you tell I am worse than a complete racing novice?)

Glad you had fun! Gotta love the power of puppy dog eyes!

Suburban Turmoil said...

I've never been to see something like that, but it looks like fun! The drifting video wouldn't play for me, though. :(