what with budget constraints being as they are...
just getting TO the salt is an accomplishment of monumental proportions,
so those of us 2400 miles away can at least, live vicariously through you
Jon
with fuel costing what it now does I may never be able to come back....
Dam.
5000 miles X 315 gallons X HOW much ????
- just an hourly working STIFF, I'm "Dirt Track Doug" in So. New
York,
-18 miles from Square Deal Raceway,
-20 miles east of Action Park Speedway,
-50 miles northeast of Champion Speedway
-105 miles south of "the Syracuse Mile" ...
-265 miles north of Williams Grove Speedway
-2425 miles due east of the Bonneville Salt Flats
...yet never more than a few feet from a cold one
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From: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
On May 31, 2007, at 12:49 PM, Askotto@aol.com wrote:
Now move the spectators 1/4 mile away from the track, take the
feels, sounds and smells away from drag racing and then take one of the
competing cars
away where all runs are "BY" runs and what do you have???
LSR!
Otto
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Odd-toe, you've hit on a valid point. I haven't quite figured out
the great fun in sitting on the sidelines waiting for a couple of
minutes, watching, then "....ZZZOOOOOOOOM!.....", then waiting for a
few minutes more. It's fun -- but I admit that I'd rather stand at
the line and live the organized frenzy of suiting up, startup, push
off, and bye-bye, racer as he goes off into the distance.
Please -- nothing nasty towards the many that camp along the lines to
watch the fastest race vehicles in the world go by. I'm glad they're
there, and I truly enjoy having them wave as we tow back, record-
qualifying time slip in hand, after a run. That's just one of the
priceless things I get out of land speed racing. I get to participate.
Jon Wennerberg
Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
Marquette, Michigan
(that's 'way up north)
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