Friday, December 9, 2011

Classic Races

Dateline – July 1 - I took the new kitty down to the Sovern Pacific Northwest Historics races at Evergreen Raceway (http://sovren.org/events/historics/ and http://www.victorylane.com/articles/2011_09 SOVREN PacifcNW.pdf). This was a great day to get the car out and be with a bunch of classic race nuts. You can get an idea of the types of people at the race when you see who was parked next to my car in the parking area!



It was a wonderful day to be out; warm but not too warm, plenty of fun cars to look at and some pretty good racing on the track. This is a really great event because you can actually mill around in the pits and see the cars up close, many times with their bodywork off. These cars are driven in anger (sort of) and many of them need minor and sometimes major repairs after the heats.

Probably the star of the show for me was the 1934 Alfa Romeo P3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_P3). I got a great look at this guy in the pits and was also able to see it raced on the track. It is hard to believe this is the way people raced cars in the past. Very, very impressive!