On a mini vacation Wednesday and Thursday. Sprint cars in Terre Haute on Wednesday, Silver Crown (champ cars) on Thursday. The weather cooperated nicely for the races. Like most everywhere else, the weather has been way outside the normal conditions for this time of the year. Tuesday it was 45 when I woke up at 6:00, hit a high of 55. Wednesday, up into the 80's. Rain on Tuesday into Wednesday morning, cleared up and we had a beautiful evening for racing. Same thing again on Wednesday night into Thursday morning - cloudy with a chance of showers later in the day but cleared up nicely in time for the race to go off.
Cuzzin Ricky had his name drawn by the nice folks from Amsoil, so we got new tee shirts and got to watch the race from "Inside the Oval". Actually, our seats were better up in the grandstands but we got our picture taken with the race winner Chase Stockon in the winner's circle. That was pretty cool. Since I won at Kokomo last year and Rick won this year, we decided we won't sign up any more this year. It was great race and we visited the Grand Traverse Pie Company restaurant for lunch, breakfast and, of course, pie.
Thursday we headed over to Indy planning on going to the Speedway Museum before heading over to the fairgrounds. Things looked to be more crowded than we wanted to deal with so we went down 16th Street a few more blocks to the Royal Enfield dealer. He told me he fixed my Suzuki and sold it to a young man who's happy as a clam with it. Glad to hear that. It was a nice bike. Surly took great care of it and I didn't hurt it any while I had it, if you don't count falling off of it while loading it up to trade it in. I wanted to ask him a couple of question concerning the servicing for the warranty and a couple of other things, so I got my answers and I bought a pair of case guards. I had seen them online and was thinking about buying a pair so it didn't take much convincing to buy them when the boss man said he had a couple of pairs in stock. As we were leaving, I said he should have some Royal Enfield tee shirts. He acknowledged that would be good but he didn't have any. However, his helper dug out a couple of koozies for us.
We headed over to the fairgrounds after that. They had a bunch of vintage midget, sprint and champ cars on display and which ran on the track later in the evening. Again, the racing was great - 100 lap feature with the "big cars". Hard to beat, especially on a one mile track. Unfortunately, this was the last Hoosier Hundred. The track is going to be used for horse racing in the future. The driver I was rooting for, Kevin Thomas Jr. had the field covered right from his start from the pole position. However there were two red flag stoppages and at least a half dozen yellows which allowed the field to catch up to him each time. He stayed in front until the last red flag with about eight laps left. He got passed in the first turn and had to settle for second place.
Great couple of days but it looks like it's going to be raining again for the next week or so. We've already had about 9-10 inches of rain for the month of May - don't need any more for awhile. I'm caught up on the chores for the most part, so hoping to get back on a few things in the shop as well as making some headway on a couple of projects around the shack.
Enjoy your weekend and remember all those who have given us our freedom.
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