Yesterday I went to a Memorial Day cookout/pool party. Had a great time with a lot of my Gaslight friends! Lots of just hanging out and talking while enjoying the fine weather!
Went to Beersnob's house afterwards to watch Episode III and IV of Star Wars (I and II were last night) and then came home. It has been a great weekend so far but today, if you are a racing fan, is one of the best days of the season.
You get the Indy 500 (alright but not great) and then you get the longest race of the NASCAR year, the Coca Cola 600!!!! Now that race is one of the best, it is on a fast track in Charlotte and is a marathon race in length. The 600 is the longest race of the year. A race of attrition where the fastest car doesn't always win. It is usually the engine that holds together for 600 miles.
So you have forty three cars hitting around one hundred eighty miles per hour on the same track for six hundred miles. It is a marathon race as I said but it is also one of the more exciting races since there will be many lead changes and lots of tight, close racing. One car just won't dominate this race. There will be lots of engine failures, especially during that last one hundred miles where races just don't go.
That last hundred miles is probably the equivalent of NFL over time. Very exciting, very intense!
You would be doing yourself a favor if you have even a tiny interest in racing at all to watch this race. You'll be happy you did!
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