Posted on 06/10/2014 7:03:13 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
I know, busy race weekend. I don’t have enough cable to hook all the TV’s up in one room to watch it all. Afraid I’d over load the modem/router with feeds.
GREEN!
Good day for racing tomorrow and some serious speed at MIS these days. I only live about 6 miles away but I just don’t feel like fighting traffic these days when I can watch on TV.
YELLER!
I know what You mean We are 20 mins by back roads to CMS but We can stay at Home in A/C and clean bathrooms, snack central, take a nap if needed AND AVOID the Traffic mess.
same here... ~7 miles from WGI but easier/more comfortable to watch than at the track
I’ve gone down for things like practice and qualifying and its not bad getting in and out but its a sweatbox when its a full house. August is even worse.
So no live reports for the 6 Hours!?
I wish they had a night race at Michigan but it will never happen because its so close to town. If you’re in Brooklyn when there’s a car on the track, it rattles the winders.
I can even hear them from my house 6 miles away.
A road course night race would be cool. Watkins Glenn would be awesome.
that is the one race we try to goto but my RaceBuddy got his knee replaced last year so it's still iffy but i have a Tracphone and no way to do updates anyway
we actually did have a couple three 24 hour races back in the late 80's early 90's, the Firestone FireHawk Series... iirc they were boycotting LeMans or something at the time
#1 Audi just had a 5 1/2 minute pit stop for tires, fuel, driver and an injector change
I wish I had gotten over to the Detroit Grand Prix two weeks ago. Its a pretty big deal now with two races.
and from what i've read it seems to be a world class facility now too
Its got a way to go but its getting there. The state took control of Belle Isle as a state park. Dan Gilbert and Roger Penske have dumped a bunch of money into restoration and repairs. I believe the roads are being torn up now for complete rebuilding.
Penske and Gilbert swear they will bring the F-1 series to town before they’re done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1nQdRSYb94#t=106
Its going to be all new track next year.
that could be a real traffic nightmare too... when we goto the Canadian GP we take the subway from the hotel to the track and back, it's only ~1 block away
I’d just go with my Brother In law who works downtown. We could park in the garage where he parks at compuware and take a shuttle to the island.
BTW both full races apparently.
Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit Race 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPHWwB7bttg
Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit Race 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hadvdv4HMM
thankx, will watch both
Remembered it was flag day yesterday at 11:00am and hoisted Old Glory. Both ‘dogs came home sick from L.A. and are still hack’n and cough’n so no church today. I see that JJ was fastest in practice yesterday w/Gordon and Harvick following. KK was 5th; don’t know where Jr ended up.
Seven granite countertops being installed tomorrow then plumbing and tile-backsplash work. Leaving for Sonoma Friday and we are hoping it will be warmer this time then 2 years ago when we froze our butts off. It better be - we’ll be taking the 335i convertible.
Adderall helps hyperactive and ADHD kids focus and allow them to act ‘normally’. It’s taken by college kids to allow them to have a kind-of ‘hyper-focus’ and get things (like term papers & research) done.
I think you can see where a race car driver could use that kind of focus.
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