I showed up on Saturday, snapped some picture's watched some racing, and did some laps on the track during the lunch tour.
There was some good racing that went on. Italcarguy started 18th in the last qualifing race, and in the first lap on the first turn ended up 5th, how? I don't know. At the end of the race he came in 3rd, congrat's! RTB brought out his new race car he purchased, and he was flying - doing 1:37's!!! In his qualifing race he got black flagged for passing when a non passing flag was up. He got black flagged and the guy in front of him which RTB was battling for 2nd did not. The VARA people made a bad call (everyone agreed). Dirk from Italspeed brought out his beutiful GT jr (rb) out. This is the nicest GTV I've ever seen (and my favorite). But everytime he bring's the car out there seems to be a mechcanical failure. The tranny went bad, so they threw in the back up and the rear peice of the tranny where the U-joint is mounted was not installed properly. Picture speaks for it self (below). That did not seem to be a mechcanical failure but a mechcanical error, who built that tranny???? I'm glad he came out ok, it could've been worse.
That's a race car, but I know once the car get's dialed in, it will be the sh*t!
I did the lunch around, which cost's 20 dollars for 40 minutes of lapping at a controlled speed limit of 60mph. But today a blind school came out for a field trip, and if you took a student in you're car it was free. So you know what I did! The kid asked me what kind of car he was in, so I told him a Alfa Romeo, he asked me if it was a race car and if it's loud, I told him it's a street car. I think he got a little bummed.
So we got on the track, and I explained to him what kind of turn's we were going into. I can't even drive the track well, but I know the turn's. He asked me how long I've been racing for, I told him I hav'nt even started yet. Anyways, I think my speedo was not working properly, because we were passing people nonstop, and at one point we were doing 105mph into turn 8.
I think he had a ton of fun, and do did I.
Picture below: RTB about to take the lead on the 240z (6cyn)