So, there is this place called the Mid Ohio Raceway. It's a road style course (aka not a NASCAR oval), and I LOVE IT. Last summer my Dad, brother and I went and spent a weekend watching races, a bunch of different classes of cars, etc. We get free tickets because his company GOJO partially sponsors a team of Porsche's that are SICK, so we get to go walk around in the pits and look at all the cars, etc. Just found out we are going again this summer, and I'm real excited for it. It's one of those things where going into it last year, I felt it would probably be enjoyable, but maybe not great . . . I was wrong. The only downside is for about a week or two after the race, I have trouble trusting myself driving because I just want to freakin haul through corners, go 100 miles an hour on back windy roads, and basically break every safety related traffic law we've got.
So, the racing is real tight. There is a class called the Daytona Prototypes . . . yeah, they are FAST. Those things hit a straight away, coming off a turn, and they accelerate like you wouldn't believe. THEN, when they come into a turn, they go in so fast that literally you think they have no choice but to detonate into a wall. Even better, they run at the same time as the open series featuring souped up mustangs, vets, bmw's, etc. Now those are some fast cars, but the daytona's whip around them like they aren't anything more than big wheels. That's why the picture is blurry, it's kinda hard to get a clear shot of a car doing 100 mph entering a turn . . .
Oh, P.S., it's still dangerous, just fyi. . .
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i s pent a few hours on that track in a porsche. veddy niiiice.
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