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[Matt Harper]

Martini and Chris 24 made it. Took 'em out for beer and wings last night and both seem ready for this weekend's ALMS action.
4 more arriving this afternoon - so a repeat performance in the I-Drive area seems on the cards....

[Ferrari Spider]

Any pics Matt?

[Fax]

Did you take them some place civilized or did you introduce them that good ole' American hole-in-the-wall, The Sho-Boat!  Personally I like the Boats charisma and lack of formality (and sometimes lack of running water)
but I suppose after you just got off a seven hour flight some decent brew & grub would be in order.
Fax

[Piglet]

Oh yeah great - not only have they gone on about it for the last couple of weeks (or is that months!) now we have to hear live what a nice time they're having 

 

[Matt Harper]

Any pics Matt?

Hi FS - hope you are feeling better.
No pix - my daughter nicked my digi-camera for a trip to Vegas.
No loss either - both Martin and Chris looked like dog sh*t last night - a combo of all day travel and too much Virgin Atlantic vodka.
Chris has left for the track - Martin's up for one more night in a comfy bed before he hits the bricks on Thursday.
Smokster, Steve, Rick and Doris are due in OIA mid afternoon - so we'll get together for a couple of light ales tonight.
Dave H gets in from Indy on Friday lunchtime - and Fax arrives from Cincinnati on Friday evening. The forecast looks great for the weekend and the Aston/Vette battle is back on!
Fax - I took 'em to The Fish on Fire at Lonesome Corner - they didn't look capable of enduring the Sho'Boat (Now renamed Beach Bound Pub - but still a cesspit)
Piglet - sorry if this comes-over as rubbing-it-in - that's not the intention - a lot of folks have asked how it's going. Get your curvy butt over here next year - it's the best event this side of le Mans

[Ferrari Spider]

Hi Matt, feeling lots better, cheers for asking, went out for a stroll with rhe dog this morning.

Hopefully Mr Picture, aka, Mr Brown, can take a few pics tonite

wish them all well, should be cleared for a trip to the US next year, need to visit family in Wyoming, one of my nephews is quite "famous" there as a sports reporter.

all the best FS

[Dave H]

Jesus - is it this weekend?  Thanks for reminding me Matt!

It was 70 degrees here a couple of days ago, and we're meant to get snow on Friday as I head out the door.

Thrashing around in your bass boat on Lake Conway both Friday pm and ALL DAY Sunday and ripping out Largies are particular highlights for me this year.  Oh, I guess the noisy business on Saturday too, now you come to think about it.

[Matt Harper]

Jesus - is it this weekend?  Thanks for reminding me Matt!

It was 70 degrees here a couple of days ago, and we're meant to get snow on Friday as I head out the door.

Thrashing around in your bass boat on Lake Conway both Friday pm and ALL DAY Sunday and ripping out Largies are particular highlights for me this year.  Oh, I guess the noisy business on Saturday too, now you come to think about it.

I sh*t you not - I'm picking you up from the scareport with the rig on the back - cooler full of Nigerians - be prepared to go straight to the ramp bruvvah...

[hgb]

No pix - my daughter nicked my digi-camera for a trip to Vegas.

Matt, sort this a.s.a.p. There's no way we're gonna let you go this easy.

[Piglet]

[Piglet - sorry if this comes-over as rubbing-it-in - that's not the intention - a lot of folks have asked how it's going. Get your curvy butt over here next year - it's the best event this side of le Mans

No problem    the guys over here have hardly mentioned they were going!! 

I'm going to Brands Hatch on Sunday for a clubbie day - really I wouldn't have wanted to be in Sebring anyway!! 

We're hoping to make it next year as a belated honeymoon after an early Feb wedding - finance and holiday permitting (the wedding is happening without finance and holiday - it'll be the honeymoon that might be a problem!!!)

[Bob U]

Any pics Matt?

We need an update on Doris's hair growth

[Lorry]

Lets see the pics and Doris should have an inch and a half by now, but we need evidence in case it was a syrup.

Have the Astons stopped sandbagging yet?

[Matt Harper]

Four more happy travellers arrived yesterday afternoon. Steve Brown had a little incident with the US Immigration authorities, who were curious to establish why he spent so much time in Egypt. He eventually persuaded them that he was a rubber fetishist and not an insurgent and they let him in.
So, Steve, Jeff, Rick, Doris and Martini accompanied me to a local bar/restaurant, where we knocked down a couple of pitchers and had a bite to eat. They left O'town this morning and should be at the circuit by now. Hopefully they'll secure a parking space for us occupy on Saturday morning.
Weather picture perfect - and cars out on the track now. The 2006 season is under way! 

[Robspot]

I sh*t you not - I'm picking you up from the scareport with the rig on the back - cooler full of Nigerians - be prepared to go straight to the ramp bruvvah...

 

Tell me that's some strange beer brand, please

[Matt Harper]

I sh*t you not - I'm picking you up from the scareport with the rig on the back - cooler full of Nigerians - be prepared to go straight to the ramp bruvvah...

 

Tell me that's some strange beer brand, please

Nigerians? Nigerian Lager - Guinness