[Leica] a day at the dirt track

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

Arche, you're starting to get comfortable and hit your stride.

Keep on it, and keep stretching.

Ric


On Jun 27, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Arche, Harvey 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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