Weekend at the races

by Jesse 20. July 2008 16:38

No, not nascar, but open wheel, SCCA GT, LeMans GT1, GT2, P1, P2 -- except for the prototypes and indy, they are cars you can go out and buy without all the stickers and ...lack of interior.  I like that kind of racing.  Even better this year, I bought a "super ticket" which gave me all weekend to go and I got a paddock pass so I could go watch the crews work on the cars, even chat with a few of them and meet some of the drivers.  I was there all 3 days and I had a great time.  One thing that caught me off guard was this car... a Porsche GT3

Yep, sponsored by Windows Vista.  Good stuff, and there was two of them.  So back to the paddock area ...how close do they let you get to the cars?  This close.  They had to go to tech to get weighed so they're all legal and allowed to even qualify.  GOOOOD stuff.  I've got a ton of other pictures I took, but ulimately, my ferrari's took 1st in GT2, the Porsche Spyders took 1st in P2 and the Audi reclaims their #1 overall victory position (no surprise really).  I can't wait until next year.

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