I'm taking the day off tomorrow to head out to the drag races. Woo-hoo!

Are you taking you laptop? :o))


"Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:cdta2r$q0i$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I'm taking the day off tomorrow to head out to the drag races. Woo-hoo!
>
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In article <cdta2r$q0i$1@digitaldaemon.com>,
 "Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote:

> I'm taking the day off tomorrow to head out to the drag races. Woo-hoo!

Don't kill yourself, we need you around to make revisions to D :P

"Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:cdta2r$q0i$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I'm taking the day off tomorrow to head out to the drag races. Woo-hoo!

I'm back. Here's the fun we had:

www.digitalmars.com/foo.jpg

That doesn't look like you, or your car Walter ...

<g>

"Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:cdv559$1gho$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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> "Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:cdta2r$q0i$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > I'm taking the day off tomorrow to head out to the drag races. Woo-hoo!
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> I'm back. Here's the fun we had:
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> www.digitalmars.com/foo.jpg
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Well, I can wish, can't I? I'm the nerd behind the camera! When I arrived home, I found I was covered with specs of burnt rubber. Anyhow, I like drag racing because it's the only motorsport left that treats the fans with respect.

"Kris" <someidiot@earthlink.dot.dot.dot.net> wrote in message news:cdv5bt$1gkr$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> That doesn't look like you, or your car Walter ...
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> <g>
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> "Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:cdv559$1gho$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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> > "Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:cdta2r$q0i$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > > I'm taking the day off tomorrow to head out to the drag races.
Woo-hoo!
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> > I'm back. Here's the fun we had:
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> > www.digitalmars.com/foo.jpg
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"Walter" wrote ...
> Well, I can wish, can't I? I'm the nerd behind the camera! When I arrived home, I found I was covered with specs of burnt rubber. Anyhow, I like
drag
> racing because it's the only motorsport left that treats the fans with respect.

Amen. And they dispense free rubber too! Last time that happened to me was at the clinic ...

Walter wrote:

> it's the only motorsport left that treats the fans with
> respect.

Nah..  motorcycle racing (as in AMA) is still good.  Though I've watched it get bigger and bigger over the past decade and I don't know how much longer it will last.

--Steve

"Stephen Waits" <steve@waits.net> wrote in message news:ce3gie$1a84$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Walter wrote:
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> > it's the only motorsport left that treats the fans with respect.
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> Nah..  motorcycle racing (as in AMA) is still good.  Though I've watched it get bigger and bigger over the past decade and I don't know how much longer it will last.

You might be right, I haven't been to a motorcycle race. What I mean by treating fans with respect is that when you buy a ticket to the event, you have access to the entire event, including the pits. You can walk right up to the mechanics working on the top fuel cars, watch them work, ask them questions, and get their autographs. They've always been happy to talk to me, and this aspect has always been much of the fun for me. This year, however, they kept us away from the staging area, which is a new restriction.

This is in stark contrast to airplane races, Formula 1, or boat racing. There, you're kept very far away from the pits by layers of security. Generally, you're treated with utter contempt despite being a paying fan. Formula 1 is the worst in this regard. No thanks, I'll stay away.

"Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:ce3ogn$1er3$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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> "Stephen Waits" <steve@waits.net> wrote in message news:ce3gie$1a84$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > Walter wrote:
> >
> > > it's the only motorsport left that treats the fans with respect.
> >
> > Nah..  motorcycle racing (as in AMA) is still good.  Though I've watched it get bigger and bigger over the past decade and I don't know how much longer it will last.
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> You might be right, I haven't been to a motorcycle race. What I mean by treating fans with respect is that when you buy a ticket to the event, you have access to the entire event, including the pits. You can walk right up to the mechanics working on the top fuel cars, watch them work, ask them questions, and get their autographs. They've always been happy to talk to me, and this aspect has always been much of the fun for me. This year, however, they kept us away from the staging area, which is a new restriction.
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> This is in stark contrast to airplane races, Formula 1, or boat racing. There, you're kept very far away from the pits by layers of security. Generally, you're treated with utter contempt despite being a paying fan. Formula 1 is the worst in this regard. No thanks, I'll stay away.

I have a friend who follows Formula 1 and he says it's funny when someone with a camera comes close to their monitors that keep track of the car performance as it races around. He says pit crews throw their bodies in front of the screen to prevent other teams from gaining any advantage. Not that it matters with Schumaker around. :-)