Great weekend at Road Atlanta, as usual. Our drive up to GA was a bit of a pain due to a work diversion to Panama City FL - but once we got to Buford and had sunk a few black beers, it all clicked nicely into place.
We were lugging a significant amount of beer - but had no troubles getting it onto the property and were soon set-up above the esses ready for the start of the race. So agreeable was the view, company and coldness of the Nigerian, we spent the next four hours soaking up the sun and the race. Guy Smith destroyed his ride right in front of us - in fairness it looked like a mechanical that had him smote the outside guard rail at very high speed, which kind of snapped us out of our Guinnes fugg.
A chance meeting with Turn 10's Lee Self, who was on smudger-duty out at the back of the circuit (where Dave H took those bad-ass pix) lead to an amusing and nostalgic discussion about previous editions of the Petit.
We ended up at turns 3/4 where the Amazing if totally bollixed Randy stood bleary-eyed, nursing a pint of rum and coke. Due to his deep inebriation, Randy let slip about a little faux-pas in his past, which we are never going to allow him to forget. Whilst I'm not a huge fan of 'in-jokes' it would be cruel to 'out him' on this forum - but little-by-little, the truth will come out. That's all I'm saying on this small issue.
Congrats to Audi, Zytek, Prodrive and Porsche for putting on such a good show. Pratt & Miller really have their work cut-out now - and that has to be a good thing.
The Petit is a great event at one of the best road courses on America, nay, the world.
Thank you Dave, Richard, Seth, Lee, Randy and the two hilarious rednecks in turn 10 (I have the most terrible notion I gave one of them my business card).
What a weekend!
