David, write this down...
Next time I drive in someone elses car ask...
1. Does it have ABS?
2. How many forward gears?
*crunch!* Sorry about your reverse gear, I thought it was a 6 speed.
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David, write this down...
Next time I drive in someone elses car ask...
1. Does it have ABS?
2. How many forward gears?
*crunch!* Sorry about your reverse gear, I thought it was a 6 speed.
Last nite, I took my son & nephew to the local Beaumont dirt track races @ Golden Triangle Raceway Park http://motoramaspeedway.com
1/4 mile, "semi-banked" dirt oval and the water truck to maintain the track was broke...so read "dust bowl". It's been many, many years since I've been to a small dirt track...and the boys had a blast.
I called ahead of time to see if they took debit/credit cards, as I had no cash and the bank isn't on the way to the track. The track owner who answered said, "Geez...no one's ever asked us if we took credit cards before. May have to look into that...but no, cash & checks only."
When the cars rolled out on track for hot laps, the 7 & 10 year olds got those stomach butterflies and didn't know what to think. First lap around, the dirt & dust was flying and we noticed many in the crowd flipped their face shield down. (Face Shields? We toughed it out without ear plugs...people bring face shields now?)
I told the boys to pick a car as it comes on track each heat and we'll keep score as to who can best pick the winner. They were hooked with all the action "their drivers" were doing to claw, scrape & slide their way to the front. Got a couple fires, couple wall hits, lots of spins and some great racing action.
My 10 yr old nephew always picked the first car on track...a path fraught with peril. Leader never seemed to be able to maintain a lead.
I typically picked the coolest looking, baddest sounding and best sponsored car out there. Looked for signs of suspension travel & skill on the warm up lap. (Don't go there. :evil: )
My 7 yr old son typically picked the 2-4 position car...which was the winning way, as he picked the most winners of the 3 of us.
Whole other world out there. I don't know how Proctor did it those years, but it sure seems like powering off that final turn in full drift, full throttle and gettin' it to straighten out right before the wall and the flagman must be a rush.
Here's to dirt track racin' and "infecting little kids" with our sport!
-=- T
My yougest daughter (7) has been hounding more weeks to take her back to the dirt track, so we actually went last also.
Fairly small crowd and only about 60 total cars racing, but still some good fun racing.
We did witness a really bad wreck where one car got clipped in the rear of another and a barrel roll started. Luckily the driver was okay, but take to the hospital for precautions.
Another funny accident occured. The track started a new class this call sport compacts.... front wheel drive and 4-cylinders, kick the glass out and go race.
They only had one show up last night, a young kid in a Mitsubishi Eclipse. He was dogging the car around the track and spinning out just about every lap...well he got behind on this steering exiting lap four and slammed the concrete wall head on. Poor kid...only one on the track and he wrecked. :D
While everyone else was working today... this is what Corey and I did...
H2R is closed on Wednesdays... so we let ourselves in and had some fun with his new Car Skates!
http://www.vimeo.com/4172963
DD
It just sucks having to go to work instead of living the David and Corey Good Life. :(
I want to see more two wheelin' videos.
Work is over rated... Its all about fun these days!!! :D
So I set the DVR based on Speed's scheduled broadcast of WC from Sebring, finished diner, sat down, turned it on, and watched an hour of AMA Prime time or some shit like that. GOTTA LOVE THE SPEED CHANNEL!!!
Uh...what was the clanking sound? Rod doing some self clearancing?Quote:
Originally Posted by donovan
Bye the way, that's pretty good practice for driving on triple 8's!!!! ;)
Corey clipped a cone when we had a course layer out, the cone stopped one of the caster wheels and flat spotted it. It's amazing how much noise small flat spot makes!!
Car was fine, drove it home... But I did cord both front tires! :lol:
"Here you go, Holly. Your car seems to making some funny noises and there's cords showing on the tires. I don't know what happened...all I did was visit Corey at the track for a few hours and came back.Quote:
Originally Posted by donovan
Don't worry about me. I'll take my truck to the gun club tomorrow."