Ahh, Sprint Cars, love em to bits, the fastest thing you could ever see on a small oval as illustrated by the excert from an article i wrote about them racing in Australia.
"It’s an awesome experience stood on the infield with 900 HP sprint cars circling you on full throttle and I can only imagine what it must be like with a full grid of cars on track. Tonight there are only 7 sprints on track practicing but the infield is still a dangerous place if you don’t have your wits about you, as I was to discover during the evening. While photographing one particular car, the driver lost control and spun which sent the car straight down the banking and heading directly for where I was standing. For a brief moment I found out what a rabbit caught in a cars headlights must feel like, because the car was moving at a much greater speed than I could move. I was frozen to the spot and couldn’t move until the driver had seen me and done his bit to take avoiding action, but as soon as I saw him turn the steering wheel to the right, I was off and running the opposite direction. Let me tell you, a sprint car can cover a vast distance in a very short space of time !"
Took about a year off my life in about 2 seconds flat !
