More Fame For Turn 10 & YFDS - Don't read if Sick of Sebring

[Pieter]

Was it any good, that ATM?

[Fran]

Was it any good, that ATM?

Well it was a very welcome sight.

I was on a 4 day long train journey and had run outta cash for food n drink.. so had to get off at the front of the train, leg it up the high street to the ATM and get back to station before train left again... otherwise i woulda been totally bu**ered and lost my luggage and everything i possessed on that continent and a 3/4 day wait for the next train!

So on a scale of 1 - 10 it was certainly right up there at the top of ATMs I have visited!  If you get to the races go n visit it Pieter.....

 

[Fax]

Fair point Steve, does help to be living on the same chunk of real estate.
A little bit of venting at the ACO with my remark too for what they've done to the circut at Le Mans.
Pieter, the 'Canes don't really impact Georgia much unless they get some rain from them once they head north over land and fizzle out, but we've been fortunate over the years, never been a wet Petit yet.  That said, Rita threw a big wrench into Matt's Petit plans a couple of years ago.
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[Pieter]

Ik know there's a story coming....Come on Fax, tell us!

[Fax]

Pieter,
I wish it was a funny story, but it isn't. A couple of years ago when Matt drove his Vette all the way from Orlando to Road Atlanta for the Petit, he got a call from the Missus saying that Hurricane Rita (or whatever it's name was) had turned toward Orlando, this being on the heels of Charlie, which bullseyed O-Town.  So as a result, one hour into the Petit, Matt had to pack up and head back home.
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[Pieter]

That clears things up. I thought Rita was an aggresive member I hadn't met yet.

[Canada Phil]

That clears things up. I thought Rita was an aggresive member I hadn't met yet.

Hi Pieter,
            Petit is well worth a visit more racing crowd but still a good party. it's only 18 hours from my house
a mere walk in the park for the week end
Hope to make it too this year.
Canada Phil

[chop456]

^ I already bought my plane ticket and rented my car for the Petit. 

BTW - I now have the scans of the Top Gear article, but I can't find my copy of .PDF maker and the .JPG scans are 3mb each (x4).  If someone has the ability to resize them while retaining most of the quality, I can e-mail them to you.  I can host them once they're resized.

(I tried it using Irfanview and they look like *****.)

[Pieter]

Off topic: how do you resize images anyway?

[chop456]

Off topic: how do you resize images anyway?

I use Irfanview.  It's small, free, and extremely easy to use.

http://irfanview.com/

[Pieter]

(I tried it using Irfanview and they look like *****.)

That's hardly a recommendation, is it?

[chop456]

(I tried it using Irfanview and they look like *****.)

That's hardly a recommendation, is it?

The scans I was given are crap.  Irfanview can't correct a poor quality image, nor can it sample/filter it to a smaller byte count while keeping the physical size the way Adobe seems to be able to.

For resizing photos, Irfanview is fine.  And did I mention that it's FREE?

[Lee Self]

Chop - resize with photoshop.
If you email them to me I'll resize and mail back
send to: lee@selfstudio.com

at 3Mb each, send each image in its own email (1 of 4) (2 of 4)
so no issues for mail host.

look forward to seeing them.

-Lee

and see you at Petit! The storm he left for was Jeanne. She meandered around the bahamas for a week then did a 180 and headed straight for florida. I headed out Friday night... One of our crew is a firechief in Ocala and he was recalled earlier that day as well. and Ronnie busted out with him to make it back to West Palm.

[Fax]

Thats the one Lee, Rita was last year right after Kat.
After a while they begin to all run together.
Highly recommend the Petit to anyone who's never been before, like Phil said more of a racing crowd but still a great party, and the best spectating venue anywhere.
Fax

[amazing 1]

I stayed for the race.Ikept calling my wife,and she was not even aware the
storm was headed that way.Whenever I called to check she kept saying its on the other coast,so dont worry about coming back.That was Wed.to Sat. afternoon.By that time she must have started actually watching the weather and her mood had quickly changed.Now it was why are you not home or headed home.It was about 4:00 pm and I was getting pretty hammered by then,and there was no way Iwas driving  9 hours after Ihave been drinking.
So I left Sun. morning at 6:00am headed home.I drove directly through the HURRICANE  all the way home.Had to have been one of the scariest things I have ever done in my life.I-75 was deserted, it was only me and three other travelers that were in the same boat I was where they HAD to get home.We convoyed in case something happened to one of us,we would pull over at every rest area[pickle park] develope enough courage to continue and drive on.Quite a hair raising experience that I will not ever do again.