So we went to the races last weekend to cheer on our friend, "Uncle" Jim. Jim owns a HUGE diesel Dodge truck that he likes to take to the race track and see how fast he can make it go.
This is Jim racing against a new Nissan Z...
Jim won. Quarter mile in less than 14.5 seconds. That truck is a beast!
It was a gorgeous day for the races and the kids and Jeff and I had a blast. The kids especially enjoyed taking pictures of all the cars. Mac's specialty was all of the burnouts. Each car was given the opportunity to "soften up" the tires before their time trial. Made for a lot of noise and smoke, what more could a kid ask for??
The drag racers were a little anticlimatic as they generally blew everything else out of the water. But they were fun to look at and OH so loud!!
All of the drivers were amateurs and most of the cars were straight out of their owners garage. Of course, there were a few that were tweaked just a bit more than you would drive to work, but all of them were fun to watch. It was especially fun to see cars like Poppie's and Jerry's and such. The boys begged and begged Jeff to race our GTI, but he kept his senses about him (although I suspect there was a little wavering behind the scenes) and kept the poor thing off the track. I guess it wouldn't have been cool to have to have been driven to work by his wife after blowing out the engine trying to play with the other boys. It did happen, thankfully not to our car, but to quite a few. Hope their wives knew what they were doing.....
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