Houston Raceway

Houston Raceway Park

Spent the day at the race tracks. Watched the drag races. Some pretty  fast cars lots of noisy m0tors and beautiful women everywhere. Must have been about 97 degrees and humidity at 80%, but it could not have been a prettier or more perfect day.

We started with a walk around the Property to look at the cars.

Boom Boom’s car

Cheryl Berner’s Car

Minus all the Logo, I like that clip

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A few of the cars being prepped.

Race Track

There was a bit of a spill so everyone was at the atm, the can and getting food or beverages. The racing was put on hold. It happens at all races. So it was time to wander around and look at all of the people and the weird things they do. When the racing starts again, You know it. Loud cars staging, High revving motors and the usual stuff. Oh yeah, your pretty much alone walking around while everyone is up in the stands again. These people have like sonar for this stuff.

Seemed like every single race recorded, ended up with one guy blowing his motor or transmission.

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Really it wasn’t even about the races. The better fun was walking around all the cars. Walking below the bleachers where all the women were sitting to get out of the sun. Talking to stray people about random things. asking weird questions of a passerby. One guy walked by with a box he was carrying like it was full of bowls of soup. So I asked him ” How many puppies in that, (are) still alive?”. It was clearly food and drinks for his friends and himself. He still felt the desire to answer with “no no just nachos and cokes”. He looked like “what a freak” and walked on. Cool. It was a private laugh. Try it sometime.

For the most part, the racing sucked, I lost interest in the races right away. There was much more entertainment lurking around below the bleachers.
The whole day was all about being out of my norm. You know what, we all need that sometimes.