My weekend of vintage racing at Lime Rock Park, CT

Raynman

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Just wanted to share my pics and experiences from this past Labor Day weekend at Lime Rock Park, CT. My buddies and I camped at the track, made new friends, "roughed" it out, and watched a s*** ton of racing.

First we pitched tents and established camp. We called our camp "Wasted Click."
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Just one of the things that happen when you have two engineers and an electrician in your party: we had a wifi cantenna that enabled us to connect to AP's miles away with good signal to noise ratio to boot. This allowed us to have wireless internet at Wasted Click.
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Here's some of our neighbors. Whoever said Lotuses aren't practical didn't try hard enough. If a guy in a Lotus Seven can bring enough essentials to go camping, then who needs SUVs?
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This is why I love camping at the track. Your neighbors are friendly car people who are very sociable.
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Camp Wasted Click was then flanked by some British cars. We met Dave, a British expat, who drove the Jag XJR. Next to my car was a couple who drove in a gorgeous '63 Daimler SP250 which was powered by a HEMI V-8. Also joining the party is another neighbor who drove a Jaguar XKR 100.
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We entertained ourselves at night by setting up our own theater at Wasted Click. We used a white sheet as a screen. We used a regular office projector, a small sub w/ speakers, a DVD player, and an inverter hooked up to a car battery. This was our first run at it. The next time we set camp, we'll have a small generator for juice and a surround sound amp. :) Being that it was a vintage racing weekend, we deemed it appropriate to watch the 1976 film Gumball Rally. It was a big hit with the neighbors.
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More pics to follow!
 
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Ha! You call that camping? Sounds like hotel accommodations....WiFi, Movies, etc. Looked like a good time. We really won't track your license plates down.

I gather pics of races are next?
 
Oh believe me, if I wanted to rough it out I'd be on the Rockies fishing trout for dinner.

Ask and ye shall receive, altspace.

I have uploaded all my pics to my 'Bucket:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v80/raynman/Rolex Vintage Racing at LRP Labor Day Weekend 2007/

Feel free to look through it.

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Yes, that is a real racing GT40. Most people would put that in a museum. I admire the few who refuse to do just that. I appreciate people who share these cars with others by racing them. It takes a lot of guts to take a car worth a million to do fender-to-fender racing.
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Using tennis balls to prevent foreign objects from entering the throttle bodies
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"if i was in WWII they'd call me..."

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looks like a lot of fun, man - i just LOVE the lines on those daimler's
 
Most impressive, Nik. Very few know a Triumph Spitfire when they see one. I reckon that's a Mark I.

yeah, mark 1 or 2 - they are so close that i can't tell unless i look at the whole car. i used to have a 72 mark 4, so i know a "little" ;) about triumphs. i'd love to get another, but right now, i have no where to garage it. this is the only picture i have of it.
 

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