Seems those boys don't take kindly to Pontiac's. Something about a Goat eating the grass, I'm not sure.
Heh, yup! And the other olde goat was leakin' oil on the posies...
I don't have much trouble with any of them really. (I run Hard) After two or three laps they are usually out of my way and I can shoot for a lap time. But the Esposito guy, the one with the phony Italian accent. (His accent gets really thick when there's women around, but the other day after I sort of squoze him off the track on the West race, he sounded plumb American when he called me a Coke Smoker, or something to that affect.) I think he has an inferiority problem 'cause he knows his car ain't nothin' but an English taxi. He keeps calling me "Nascar" and tellin' everybody that all my car is is old. "It's just noisy and can only drive in circles" he says. "How you say it?" he asks while wiggling his finger, "roundy round? This is real racing," he brags, "We have to turn both directions and use our brakes in this League."
Well, I been kickin' his butt real regular, but he hasn't backed off. But he isn't hangin' around where I at much either. What is a real hoot is that when we looked at the itenorary for Montegi, there was a 20 lap race on the Twin Rings Speedway. I wiggled my finger at him and winked when they announced that in the driver meeting. Boy, I am going to kick his ass!
And I did. Here's how it went at Montegi.
| Montegi GP | - | 142.955 |
| Montegi East | - | 102.301 |
| Montegi West | - | 44.884 |
Total | = | 290.140 |
| Montegi Spdwy | - | 45.779 |
Sacrilege I know, but I like running on the Montegi Speedway. Unlike Sunset and the Test Pad, you actually have to drive the Twin Rings. And if you are having any handling issues, turns 3 and 4 will catch you out in short order. You get the idea of what the NASCAR guys mean when they talk about "rotating thru the middle"
Anyhow, I'm back at the house for a week or so. I got the design for the new Number panels last week and Jack got them cranked out on the machine the other day. He hung a set on the GTO and then ran it over to the barn and the spotlight that he has set up for the purpose and took a picture.
I wondered how the ole gal would take it, but she looks kind of proud. Chest all puffed out and head high... "I'm a Race Car now!" she seems to exclaim.
Yes you are hon...
Next, the word is that we are headed for England and the Silverstone track. Three different ribbons there. But, while we are there they are going to be doing some PR crap over on the airport thing where
TopGear is produced. That ought to be fun...
PS: and I promise to get more pictures... 
