Grand Prix of Road America 2006 Pt I

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This is way overdue. Sorry. I wrote most of it, but never finished until now. To put this back in context, this picks up the Friday morning after I got back to Madison.

Lets see. Where did I leave off? Oh yeah Friday morning.

The U-pack guy woke me up a little after 11 to drop off the ReloCube. They drop it off with this crazy three wheeled all-terrain forklift. It was pretty cool. I pretty much just napped for the rest of the day. Friday night we went to the Great Dane for the friday fish fry. If you haven't tried their fish fry I highly recommend it. Its Canadian walleye fried up in a beer batter made with their beer. Truly excellent. We had an early morning the next day so we all headed home.

Jen decided she had homework to be done so she was going to join us latter in the day for dinner and skip the track on Saturday. So I picked up Becca and Neil at 7am at the OP and we headed for West Bend. Kitty Neverlost was our intrepid guide for the weekend. Everyone had fun playing with her. We dropped off Becca in West Bend at her parent's house and headed for the track.

Saturday's schedule was mainly practice and qualifying, but in person it doesn't make a huge difference. As long as the cars are running its all good. It was overcast and threatening rain for most of the day. It finally followed thru later in the day. We got a bit wet while watching Champ Car qualifying, but we managed to make it to the car before the serious ran started. We drove around and parked at turn 3 and watched the Formula Ford race from inside the car. Those guys were doing very well considering how hard it was raining.

After the Formula Ford race Neil and I headed back to West Bend for dinner with the Schemelin family. We got back a bit before Jen did so we made a beer run to the Pick And Save. Dinner was excellent and we finished off the evening watching Lucky Number Slevin
and enjoying some good Wisconsin beer.

I'll write up race day next.

Pictures are up over here.