[Leica] a day at the dirt track

[bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)]

69's the winner for me, Arche....


On 6/27/06 8:31 PM, "Arche, Harvey" <Harvey.Arche@jp2hs.org> wrote:

> Last saturday I drove up the road a piece to Clarksville, where they have a
> race complex that includes a go-kart course, a mud bog, and a 1/8 mile
> dragstrip, in addition to the 1/4 dirt oval that was featuring races that
> night. Clarksville is the home of Ft. Campbell and the 101st Airborne Div.,
> and the town has grown spectacularly since I lived in the area 7 years ago.
> The night I was there the track owner annnouced that, because of a big new
> sponsorship deal, the track would now be called the 'something something
> Propane Speedway', and that starting next week cars would have to race with
> mufflers because of the new nearby subdivisions.
> 
> At this track they don't let anybody, not even pit crew, onto the infield,
> except the officials and guys wearing serious looking camera gear. Honest.
> When I asked, they said 'You're a photographer? Sure.' The thing is, after 
> the
> first hot lap of warmups, I realized I didn't wany my gear anywhere near 
> that
> track because everything quickly gets covered with dirt, or the local 
> red-clay
> variety of it, thrown up by the cars.
> 
> So I've got three sets of five pictures each, no running cars. Yeah, I 
> totally
> wussed.
> 
> The Driver's meeting, starting here:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/meeting1
> 
> Scenes from the Pit area, starting here:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/pits1
> 
> Views of the spectators, starting here:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/crowd1
> 
> Tech blab: M2 w/ 35 s'cron; pit pictures mostly APX 100, crowd pictures all
> P3200TMX, and meeting pictures all Foma 200 in D76 1:2, which works OK for 
> me
> (now, if I could just keep from scratching the stuff).
> Arche
> 
> 
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