Auto Racing?
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- boobs0
Going to road races, like F1, or the Indy car road races, in real life, is really fun. From television, you just have no idea how loud those cars are. When they go past you, when you're near the track, it just shakes your insides. It's really incredible.
And the acceleration is something you don't get a feel for from TV, either. When an F1 car comes out of a hairpin, it may be going only 20 or 30 MPH. When the driver punches it coming out, it makes enormous noise, produces flames and smoke and explosive noise, and the car just accelerates so fast you nearly hurt your neck trying to follow it.
On TV those cars look like sedate little toys. But in real life, they're like absolute beasts. It's hard to believe someone could stand to be inside a machine like that, because it's so completely over-the-top.
And after the race, when you can walk across the track, there are eraser and pebble sized hunks of rubber piled up like gravel everywhere on the track everywhere. You can scoop up a bunch of it in your hand, and it looks like you're holding a handful of coal pebbles. It's mind-blowing how those cars just destroy those huge tires in no time.
If you don't dig car racing, a trip to a big race at Laguna Seca, or Sears Point, or one of the road races in Detroit or Cleveland will completely change your mind. It's just barely controlled madness on a scale you never really see anywhere else.
- Great description. Sounds awesome. They have a GP track in Austin, TX now.mg33