A relatively brief update of yesterday: Sun. More sun. Hallett was scary but a lot of fun. A quote I heard was that it is a compilation of difficult turns from all other tracks. It was relatively low speed – but loads of elevation changes and blind corners. Racing suits apparently are really hot in the sun…
Once we got done with the road course, we drove an hour to the Tulsa drag strip. More sun and bench racing ensued before we got suited up and headed for the staging lanes. While I put down a 16.3 quarter (rather anemic), I did beat a 12 second Corvette in the first round of bracket racing (mostly dumb luck).
After losing, we hopped in the car to do the 390 mile jaunt to St. Louis. It was a long night; we arrived at our hotel around 1:30am with barely enough energy to get ready for bed.
We had 4 hours of sleep going but a rather unruly alarm clock (thanks Amanda…) woke us up an hour earlier than planned. REM stopped there.
Oh yea! We forgot to introduce you to the newest member of our group. Dave surprised me with this yesterday morning to keep things fun and goofy. Please meet “Mr. Happy”. When crankiness comes out… so does Mr. Happy. Now, he has become a bit of a feature along the way. Even some of the other groups are getting involved! We even got a note from him left on our pile of things yesterday after the drag strip that he was going to hang out with another group for the night (guess he likes Corvettes and Hampton Inns better than Bimmers and Fairfield Inns haha). Hope some of these pictures make you smile. He has definitely kept us smiling.
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