Thursday, February 22, 2007

 

Welcome Race Fans to the 2007 Season

Started this Daytona trip on Thursday and got to the track at the beginning of the qualifying races in time to meet the other team members: Cowboy and Dutch. Dutch and his friend Larry made Speedweeks a job and arrived with RaceJammer 2 the week before. After some finagling (and other things) we got into our lot and set up shop. Was cold as all hell, and zipping along the infield on these didn't help matters:

But per usual, the Cruisin Coolerscr were a source of constant entertainment, until Dutch took a sinkhole at mach 80 with his hair on fire and ended the day for cooler #2. Oh yeah, as you can tell, Floyd made it to race weekend, probably just so she could be in this snapshot:

Nope, not part of a Shriner parade, this is our dear Carnie, doing her best impression though.

We also enjoyed the wheelbarrow races for the second year in a row (see post 2006), but did not participate in said races. However, a dear admirer and participant from the previous year (again, see post 2006) picked Cowboy out of the crowd of thousands and continued to "shadow" (or stalk...take your pick) us (her) for the rest of the night.

Made it down to tent city for the festivities there thanks to our loaned golf cart and enjoyed Club 3. Especially enjoyed Cowboy getting to smooch Jr:

She forgot she just got married, but oh well, Dutch understood. He almost kissed Jr. too.

Thanks to Kim & Duane, the Team was heated once again by their propane heater and a thousand blankets, and the shots too, whilst visiting:





So other than the cold, was a great weekend for racing. Had to host this poor guy who was locked out of his car. We enjoyed sharing a beer with our new pal, Marty:

Congrats to Mark Martin, I mean Kevin Harvick, on a great finish. Also to our pal David Ragan for his impressive 5th place finish in his rookie year.










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