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Fair amount of female drivers over their as well, this car being one of them:
A few more pics:
Belle Wheeler turned 10 on Sunday, and is moving up to 8.90! Her hero card states that her best light is .0000! She reminds me so much of my Amanda, smiley-laughing
Very few golf carts cruising the pits over there, oh - they call them 'buggies'! Much more 'Nike' being used.
This is where they do Tech, pretty nice in that it is covered but could be difficult for long dragsters to navigate through the garage on the right and then pull a 180 to head back through tech - but easy for the Jr's!
A LOT of tent campers in the pits, as well as small bumper pull campers, but these brave souls were camped out in this field - pretty muddy, reminded me of the pictures of York US30 and other drag strips where folks would come and camp out for the weekend.
I had not seen an American pickup truck the entire week, but when I got to Santa Pod - there were plenty! This white truck was actually from a track in the US, (don't know which one), as it still had it's NHRA identifier inside.
Note the creative track sprayer / vehicle, a lot cheaper to operate than a full size truck or trailer! With gas costing about 1.80GBP / Litre, (equating to ~$9.75/gal!!, assuming I did my metric conversion correctly), it's quite practical to use the car!
The track workers were joking with me about my choice of beverage - but I practically live on this stuff and was ecstatic to find it at a local supermarket the night before. I was in serious withdrawal mode, (ibuprofen (for caffeine withdrawal migraines) is only dispensed via pharmacist, and cost me $10 for 10 tablets in Switzerland!), they thought it could be a fuel substitute! smiley-mrgreen
I made it through the whole week over there without a jacket, but once it started raining, and the then the wind kicked up, I had to buy a jacket - why buy a boring one?
A few more big cars. I was impressed with the quality of their race cars, most every car had top notch parts, bodies in very good condition, and nice interiors. The owners were very proud of their rides, and were not shy in showing you around.
Cuda peeking out:
Another Nostalgic FC, not sure where this one was from:
This car was impressive,
Brand loyalty within the Big 3 runs strong over there too! My son liked the creative spelling on the back door of the trailer!
Even a custom chopper, (that's ~$48,000 USD smiley-oops )
I didn't really see many non-US cars, or perhaps I just didn't notice them. But this one caught my eye, don't know what it is though:
Figured it was a Jaguar, since he was already working on it after a short warm up! smiley-mrgreen
Then it was back to Heathrow, by way of some small villages. The cars on the left side of the road with the driver on the right side of the car sort of freaked me out, thankfully I was driven everywhere - not sure I would have stayed on 'correct' side of the road if I was behind the wheel!
I really enjoyed these 12 hours of my trip, gave me something to look forward to after talking corporate finance all week! Would love to go back.
