Great tape. Le Mans with Steve McQueen is one of my favorite movies. Especially when the clock is ticking up to the start and from click, click and heart beats in silence it goes to Roar.
Just got back from the Champ Car race in Cleveland, and standing at the end of the front straight as the cars slow dramatically down from 160 - 170 to the sharp right hander and just make it on the edge, jumping all over the place, is great to watch and great sound effects. The cars are only a few feet away from you. Also spent much time behind the pits in the paddock. Our seats were right across from the victory stand and the end of pit row with two of the teams in front of us. Great action. Everything is open and accessible not like NASCAR or Formula One where you need an audience to get to see or talk to anybody or get close to the cars. When did anybody talk to a member of the France family, Roger Penske or Bernie Ecclestone? But Kevin Kalkoven, one of the principal owners of champ cars and a team owner, was easily accessible in the paddock.
Go to one of the races and see how fast these cars really are up close and personal. And I am saying this having been to many NASCAR races over the years, Formula One events in Europe and here, and going back to USAC's Indy cars (long before the split), TransAm, and Can Am.
Plus this weekend featured Atlantic cars, Formula 2000, Skip Barber, drag racing, bikini volley ball contests, rock concerts and more.
And if you stay downtown and go out to eat in the warehouse district, you
will run into drivers and teams. It is fun all around.
(I just like the stuff; I am not getting paid to say this.)
OMathisen
