A Day At the Races.....

or just a little over an hour actually. Since I only had about an hour and a half, I didn't want to buy a ticket. The track comes pretty close to the road on the left side. A number of people had pulled off and were sitting there watching, so I joined them. My view was of a small stretch of track just before the last turn and near the entrance to the pits. Not a bad view, considering it was free. The first group of cars are New Zealand V8's. I'm not sure about the last two, but they are a smaller and slightly less powerful car.

The race leaders.


It's a bad day at the track when this happens after only running a couple of laps.


A little bump draft.


Another bad day at the track. When you only run about 20 laps, pitting is not a good idea.


Challenge for the lead.


Challenge for......some other position.


And without warning, they are done. I never did see the checkered flag.


These cars are moving pretty fast, but there was no sense of motion. So I decided to play around with panning, something I have never had the chance to do. I think I did pretty well for my first attempt, getting a few that look the way I wanted them too.