me--did you feel like you were getting felt up when they buckled you
in? huey--no. but i don't have boobs. i don't think they even buckled
me in.
my marlboro racing experience was last friday. i had pretty median
expectations going into the whole thing and was pleasantly surprised to
find that it totally rocked my socks off!! first thing is that you
actually get to drive you car into the infield of atlanta motor
speedway. i'd walked around in there before when we were there for
rockfest many moons ago but it was cool anyways. then they actually put
us into fireproof racing suits and issued us our very own racing gloves
and head sock thingy. the head sock, when on, reminded me of a ninja.
like scorpion from mortal kombat. it was pretty funny. then we got
measured for helmets. i was a massive 3x but huey's grape had to be
squeezed into a 4x. after that, we stood around for awhile and then were
ushered on to the iroc cars.
now from my limited understanding of racing, these were not nascar cars.
but they do go around a track very fast. and they have no doors. so we
had to climb in and out of the windows which seem about half the size of
normal car windows. thank god i'd practiced on huey's car! i got in
pretty easy but my massive helmet got stuck. personally i think that it
was the neck brace thingy they strapped on us, but a few solid thumps on
my head and it popped right in. my driver popped the clutch a few times
and the car literally roared to life. we took off and did three laps
around the course at 130+ mph right up against the wall. it was so cool
it gave me perma-grin. after i akwardly climbed back out of the tiny ass
car we headed for the next event.
now these cars actually had doors. kind of. more like half doors. and
you still were all akward in the huge helmet and neck gear. and these
cars had a weird name. like pazo or something. but these actually went
around an autocross course on the infield. the driver would accelerate
in about 4 seconds to almost 100, slam it back down to 60 to make a
sharp turn then be off again. amazing. but not my favorite. after this
we got to take off the stifling suits and just wear normal clothes for
the last course.
now, i'd never heard of a drifting course. and i kinda have this general
prejudice against mustangs because my big headed hs boyfriend drove one
and thought he was so cool. anyways, the cool thing right off the bat
about these was that you only had to wear a helmet and there was a real
door and normal seatbelt. so huey's kinda explaining to me what drifting
is and the first group starts going. basically the easiest way for me to
describe it is mario kart power sliding. your front end is pointed one
direction and you are sliding sideways around turns. and on straight
aways they jerk it around so you are fishtailing the whole way. the
whole ride has this "oh fuck! oh fuck! oh fuck! hell yeah!" feel to it.
total adrenaline rush. definately my fav part of the day.
so if anyone ever has the opportunity to do anything like this i
strongly encourage you to do it. and no, you don't have to smoke. maybe
half the people there did so you don't feel weird or anything. and its
just generally a cool way to spend a morning.
once i get the doggie bday party pics together i'll tell you guys about
that too. another once in a lifetime experience, but in a different way.
like seeing identical twin midgets do standup comedy. something you have
to at least try once.
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