You should have stayed for the practice. It was great!
Things end at 6 tomorrow so you can rest up for a big day Saturday.
Wes
On Jul 13, 2006, at 9:22 PM, Ray Buck wrote:
> I spent the day at the new Miller Motor Sports Park for the
> ALMS/Speed World Challenge/Star Mazda event today. The track is so
> new that they're still putting the finishing touches on it...and
> having some of the expected birthing pains. But for a practice day
> it was pretty good...even if there was only one concession stand (and
> only one other place to get water on a 100 F day) open for the whole
> 4.5 mile track. But I survived.
>
> I got there earlier than I needed to because I didn't have a clue
> when they were going to start practice...their website wasn't real
> helpful beforehand: http://www.millermotorsportspark.com/
>
> I took a buncha pics, but I'm not really happy with them. My Sony
> digital camera is better suited for still pics rather than action
> photo, especially when using the digital zoom. But they're better
> than nothing. I put the pics into the Cruisin Utah section of my
> website, so if ya go there:
> http://www.chevyasylum.com/cruisin06/Welcome.html you can select the
> appropriate link. I just did some quick captions on the thumbnail
> pages...but you can get an idea of what's going on.
>
> I didn't stay for the ALMS prototype and GT practice, cuz it started
> at 6:30 pm (a 2 hour dinner break) and I was hot, tired and hurting
> like hell. So I'll get more pics tomorrow, which is qualifying
> day...and then more on Saturday which is race day. It actually made
> sense to have the ALMS (that's American LeMans Series in case you're
> not familiar with it) cars practice at the same time they're going to
> race: Saturday nite from 6pm to 8:45. For some reason, 2:45 is the
> standard length of that series' sprint races (as opposed to 6 or 12
> hour endurance races.)
>
> I'll be back tomorrow for qualifying, which shouldn't be as long a
> day as today was, but Saturday is going to be a real long day with
> races running from roughly 11am to 9 pm. Of course if I didn't like
> it, I wouldn't be going there. I really do enjoy the racing and this
> was my first IMSA/ALMS sports car race in a whole lot of years. It
> was nice to see some sports car racing after a long hiatus. I better
> send this and get to bed.
>
> Ray
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