Tony stewart wins at Indy

Look at all the new stuff ESPN had at the race today to broadcast the show with. A whole new shop to show parts of the car for viewers and to show what parts of teh car needs fixing or is broken. Also had a big screen in there with animated video display showing an engine breaking. Then they had the cartoonic looking graphic showing the air circulating around the cars.......is pretty cool for a bit but got kinda of old fast. Didn't another station try this stuff with the NHL? Remember the streak behind teh puck when it was shot over a certain mph?
Anyway all this stuff seems fine for TV viewers I guess but I am sort of a purist who like sthe old way of showing this stuff like when FOX does it from a cutaway car.
Anyway congrats to Tony Stewart for winning and not falling to the ground after he climbed the fence at the starting line. And bad luck to Dale Jr. as he broke his engine after leading for awhile.

DEI and GINN merger

I've always thought of Mark Martin as my favorite Ford driver and that he would fit into a Chevrolet product just fine. So when came back to race with Ginn racing this year in the US Army 01 Chevrolet I thought cool. Mark has seen the light!

So Then I always thought that if Mark MArtin could ever drive for Dale Earnhardt Inc. that would be awesome! I know Mark is semi retired and that idea would never come to light but the idea of Mark Martin driving on the same team as the late Dale Earnhardt would have been awesome before Dale's untimely passing. But now that GINN Racing and DEI have merged together Mark MArtin is now a teammate of Dale earnhardt Jr. COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is just too bad Dale Earnhardt Jr. is leaving DEI for the Hendrick's stable at the end of the year! Well thats too bad DEI could have had 2 marquee racers in their stable and Mark will definately help the younger DEI drivers as well as Dale Jr. Oh well I will savor what is left of the 2007 NASCAR season and relish in the fact that a legendary driver has teamed up with a legend's son and future legend in his own right Dale Jr and squirm at the fact that Jr. is going to be racing at Hendrick's in 2008...................ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

pic from nascar.com

From Powerful Cars to Powerful Music

Only been home for a week and already it was time to go to Sounds of the Underground last night. A music festival featuring various hard core death metal bands. The concert started at 1pm but we got there at just after 6pm. A few of the bands we wanted to see were playing near the end of the show but we missed the one I really wanted to see, Shadows Fall. But we did get to see Chimara and the feature band GWAR! If you have never been to a GWAR show, well you are missing a show in itself........shock rocking has never been like this, and these guys have been doing it for over 20 years. Alice Cooper is tame in comparison to these guys. Anyway you get pretty messy at a GWAR show and seasoned veterans show up with rain coats and ski goggles!





Gwar web page

Pics on FLICKR instead of geociites.

I have added a FLICK R link to my sidebar where I have added some pics from last weekends race. Some older pics are still on my geocities website as well.

Our TRip Home

Well on Monday we slept in a bit as the races are now over for another year. (Until Pomona right honey?) Anyway as we booked a late flight for Monday based on past experiences with rain delays in Seattle forcing the race to be run on Monday. And it was close to being run on Monday as well, boy was it close I still can't believe the weather cooperated enough o allow the race to be finished on Sunday even though it was still hampered by a misting rain which cause slight delays during the day. But hats off to the NHRA for getting it done and preparing the track for driver and fan safety.
So the wife and I go do a little shopping, apparently she wants to start running with her so bough me a pair of good running shoes, hi tech stuff this running shoe business. Then we went to Southcentre mall to kill a few more hours.
something to eat and wander around a bit.Well as the day is lagging on we decide to go drop off the rental car and head to the airport where we can get The concourse is pretty cool with a big glass wall that overlooks the airport and can watch all the planes come and go. So this was a good spot to get something to eat. Is awesome to watch all the planes fly in out they are just as powerful as some of the cars we were watching over the weekend and I am always amazed that these planes can ever get off the ground! Like this 747. After we eat we head down to our gate number. you need to take a subway to get out to the satellite terminal that is there but there is another good vantage point for some more pics.
Even The air force comes in here I guess to refuel or something but was still impressed whit this air force tanker as it taxied by us. There was all types of planes that came by us from British Airways to Japanese airplanes and various paint schemes, and we were close to Alaska Airline terminal so there was tons of those plane there to.

Finally our plane lands.....Air Canada/Jazz....and we load up and go home. The flight was about an hour and we are home after another fun weekend in Seattle.