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5 years ago, gas was much cheaper in ATL than Athens. That's turned to where we are now normally 20 cents cheaper. Until this past week, where we are the same...
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Keep it to Monday thank you, no need for rain setting up if possible. Although that's preferred to being woken up Sunday inside a destructive gale.
Planning on dutch oven breakfasts Friday and Sat morning, biscuits every morning. Have enough to make black forest, apple and peach cobblers as well. |
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I always forget about these "trackside" threads, so thanks for the reminder in the official thread.
You guys are kewl, so fun to read about how excited you get for the race. Man, I just wish I could get over my butt-hurtedness since the P1s were told to play elsewhere, I really need to get over that. I used to look forward to Petit for 364 days of the year! I guess that's one (the only one) reason to actually talk people out of going to Le Mans, you get spoiled. I'll look for you guys on Saturday, I'll just be down for race day. I think seanyb505 (Sean, I think that is his username), madkart (Christian) and his dad, our friend Colby and his wife will all be in our crew. Plus I'm still doing my part and have invited someone who has never been to a sports car race to come with us, my AC guy (don't ask, that stupid thing has had gremlins in it lately) and his friends have bought their tickets for their first sports car race and trip to Road Atlanta. In my garage I have floor to ceiling on all three walls (I guess I could start on the inside of the garage door itself next) all of the hero cards and signed posters from years of going to the races. So I walked the AC guy through my garage to get to the unit that is a thorn in my side and he sees the prototypes and is like, wow, what the heck is that?! And I start telling him about them and he can't believe that they go to this track just 90 minutes away. (Of course I don't mention my P1 butt-hurtedness to him, ignorance will be his bliss). This thread reminds me of the friends I have made going to Sebring over the years and how big our crew has gotten down there. We actually have a compound now on the inside of the hairpin. Last year we were at least 40 large in our group. What's great is that we get down there on Wednesday and each sub-group is responsible for one meal, so once you get your one meal to make for the group out of the way you just spend the rest of the week having food put in your face. And now everyone is trying to outdo one another so you end up with some gourmet stuff. This year my contribution was two mega charcuterie boards as well as pork rillettes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rillettes At the ten tenths gathering at Le Mans two years ago the lovely Eric (bat mobile as he is known in our circles) brought some as they are a local specialty. Let's just say that they look very different than what most people are interested in eating as they are literally cased in layer upon layer of fat. But, they taste amazing. So I was a bit worried that this investment of time (they take a good five days to make) and money spent on making them myself would go to waste as no one would want to eat them. In fact it turns out that they are excellent drunk food and were gone in minutes! Interesting side note about the rillettes: I was standing trackside there at Sebring with my shirt off (it gets hot, don't judge me) and I saw this guy that had what I thought to be a cool shirt on. I asked him about his shirt and he replied back with an accent that he didn't understand what I was saying. I asked him if he was French and he replied in the affirmative. I then asked him where he was from in France and he pointed to the tattoo on the side of my stomach (yes, I have a tattoo of the Circuit de la Sarthe, I am that hardcore!) and pointed to Arnage corner. He tells me then that this is the first trip to the US for his friend and him. So then in my drunkeness (again, don't judge me this is Sebring we are talking about) I insist that he comes to our campsite for a beer. Him and his friend did and also tried my rillettes and claimed that they were right up there with the best that he'd ever had! Maybe some day I'll have to make them and bring them to Petit (or The Mitty which is quickly gaining traction as my favorite event at Road Atlanta). Holy smokes I think I just wrote a novel. Amen to you if you read all of that and I apologize in advance for wasting that much time from your life. |
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Very cool trackside stories indeed. The Mitty is great and I've loved going to it for years now. And I get your feelings of a slight let down; those were some golden years in the 2000s for PLM and we didn't really know how good we had it. Road Atlanta used to be a second home when I had no kids and a little money! I always have to support the biggest race at the best track in Hall County! Is the AC man a racing fan at all? I'm glad to hear you're bringing some new blood. Hopefully, we'll "stumble" across each other, fully clothed, of course. |
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Too bad ur not going to make it for the whole weekend. Sebring was a trip. You and i trying to find each other outside of will call so i could get those tickets from your drunk azz. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk |
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There appears to be a sale at the Coleman Outlet in Banks Crossing (or like Harbour Freight, it's called Saturday).
In route to a soccer game in Clarksville (I know, I don't get it either). Let me know if I can pick anything up to add to the Coleman collection. (Looking at you, Andrew) |
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And that was pretty epic, meeting you to get you the tickets, getting a ride back in, and then pulling up and being offered a fresh off the grill, delicious burger! Life doesn't get much better! Hope to see you at Petit. However, as you can imagine I can't remember what you look like for the life of me. |
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That blue one is from 2000. Be fun
to bring one of your kids to the track and let him play with it in the dirt of T4 camp zone. |
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