It's not the Gateway Center...

[Jeff Murphy]

You're right. Bob Riggle was there again this year with the Hurst Hemi Under Glass '66 Cuda. Spent about half an hour talking to him about the car and vintage racing. He's a super ambassador for the sport. This year he kept the car on the pavement and left with it undamaged. He was clearly the crowd favorite, along with the driver of BMW's 1998 Le Mans winning prototype that basically smoked the tires the whole way up the driveway, Jenson Button driving this year's BAR Honda F1 car in controlled doughnuts and some lunatic on a Norton endurance racing motorcycle that either had the rear wheel lit up or the front one off the ground the whole way up the hill!! I'll see if I can post a picture tonight of Riggle's car in front of the house.

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They've put out a limited edition DVD of the highlights of the first 10 years of the Festival that I picked up this weekend that should be a good spectacle.

[Jeff Murphy]

Thought you guys might like to see a few of the American cars and the burnout kings from the Festival of Speed this year. Here's the Hemi Under Glass that was discussed above:

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Current Renault F1 car (traction control turned off!):

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BMW Le Mans winner (he's probably already gone a 100ft.):

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Charger Daytona that did the first 200 mph lap straight from the Talladega Museum (notice only the right rear really gets lit up, but a nice long black strip nonetheless):

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One of five Corvette Grand Sports:

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One of four (remaining?) Shelby Daytona Coupes: