Our schedule was empty for today so we squandered it by doing some laundry at Paradise Campground’s facility and using their frustratingly slow wifi to post pithy entries to this blog. The rest of the day was easy but towards evening we took a drive over to Rochester where there is a race track.
Tonight’s lineup at South Sound Speedway was Super Late Model Stocks, Baby Grands and Legends classes. The stocks look and sound like regular NASCAR stock cars but the Baby Grands appear to be about 1/4 size stock cars with what sounded like chain saw motors. Peggy and I liked the Legends cars. They look like old American coupes with massive fenders and tires or maybe like a contemporary Morgan but they certainly had big, noisy engines and they did scoot. They scoot so well, in fact, that they occasionally scoot right into each other with sheet metal parts suffering most of the damage.
One of the drawbacks we have noted about going to racetracks in rural areas is that they frequently have primitive, ass-numbing seating so we have recently purchased some personal stadium seat improvements. Peggy’s is a fine rig with a folding back and a hook that grips the stadium bench but mine is merely some thin cushions gathered in a cloth case. It does not function as beautifully as Peggy’s and before the races were over, my butt had been temporarily wrecked by the underlying treated lumber 2×10. I’m sure the last bit of the races we missed were thrilling.