History at the Dry Lake
Laguna Seca has many other activities besides its major races. Thankfully they publish these activities on their website in their calendar section. It's not always obvious (I only found out after the fact that Mercedes were having a big couple of days with Lewis Hamilton in town), but sometimes it is.
This weekend the track is rented by the Historic Motor Sports Association - not too hard to figure out what they're all about, so I headed to the track this afternoon to go check the cars out.
After signing the waiver at the paddock entrance, I was in. The caliber of car wasn't as high as at an LSR day (not quite sure what an LSR day is - I have to assume LSR stands for Laguna Seca Raceway - but you see some amazing exotic and priceless stuff hammering around the track on those days) or as you see during the official historic week.
After trawling the paddock, this Porsche 962 was my favorite car in attendance. It was done for the day though, so I didn't get to see it (or hear it) in action.
The first on track action I saw was a bunch of saloon cars featuring a bunch of Mustangs and a bunch of Alfas and a few other cars. There was an E-type Jag that was doing well for most of the race, but presumably had an off track excursion as it dropped about 10 spots. In the photo below it's on its way back up the pack, passing a Lotus going into turn 11.
The next set of cars out on the track was a set of F3 cars (with one F2 car thrown in for good measure) - they looked cool in the backlit pit lane as they were waiting their turn, so I snapped away.
The weather was really nice and warm - total t-shirt weather at the track, which nestles in a little bowl, so isn't affected by the cooler ocean breeze at the coast. It turned out to be a great way to spend a couple of hours on a Saturday afternoon.
This weekend the track is rented by the Historic Motor Sports Association - not too hard to figure out what they're all about, so I headed to the track this afternoon to go check the cars out.
After signing the waiver at the paddock entrance, I was in. The caliber of car wasn't as high as at an LSR day (not quite sure what an LSR day is - I have to assume LSR stands for Laguna Seca Raceway - but you see some amazing exotic and priceless stuff hammering around the track on those days) or as you see during the official historic week.
After trawling the paddock, this Porsche 962 was my favorite car in attendance. It was done for the day though, so I didn't get to see it (or hear it) in action.
The first on track action I saw was a bunch of saloon cars featuring a bunch of Mustangs and a bunch of Alfas and a few other cars. There was an E-type Jag that was doing well for most of the race, but presumably had an off track excursion as it dropped about 10 spots. In the photo below it's on its way back up the pack, passing a Lotus going into turn 11.
The next set of cars out on the track was a set of F3 cars (with one F2 car thrown in for good measure) - they looked cool in the backlit pit lane as they were waiting their turn, so I snapped away.
The weather was really nice and warm - total t-shirt weather at the track, which nestles in a little bowl, so isn't affected by the cooler ocean breeze at the coast. It turned out to be a great way to spend a couple of hours on a Saturday afternoon.
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