Stampede

The residual of the crusade to Birmingham is uneventful.  For the most part, I don't hear it as well as afterward a couplet of hours I am able to forget nigh racing as well as motorcycles, letting my hear (but non my attending on the road) wander.  I quiet my outcry as well as quite frequently don't hear to whatsoever music.  It is the calm earlier the tempest that starts the 2nd I lay out to ready Fri as well as doesn't quit until the final detail is off-loaded dorsum into the garage on Lord's Day night.

In some remote backwater of my subconscious, the gigantic, prehistoric reel to reel figurer is yet humming as well as processing data, but the relative tranquility of the route has reduced it's electronic clatter to a muffled roar.  I would similar to tell I am solving the mysteries of the universe during these placidity times, but it is a vagabond prepare of ragged, displaced thoughts meandering on tracks to a swampy nowhere, chugging into smoky obscurity.  I retrieve I can....I retrieve I can....

About the fourth dimension my lower dorsum as well as bladder tin get got no to a greater extent than my 'privateer express' arrives at Barber Motorsports park.  Ten years on it is yet a heck of a clean, good groomed racetrack facility.  Impressive.  I approximate if ya got the money....

WERA racers arriving early on are directed to an unpaved lot until the gates opened upwards at 6pm, when the well-heeled Porsche social club is done amongst their rail day.  I've got iii hours to kill, but I am amazed at the amount of guys hither earlier me.  Some get got evidently camped out all nighttime to live showtime inward trouble just to run inward the gate!  Massive motorhomes, diesel fuel trucks towing trailers that terms to a greater extent than than everything I ain litter this lot, vying for seat closest to the gate.  The Sun is beating downwardly as well as it is getting warm.  I wonder what is going to occur when they plough this bunch loose, it could plough into a Winnebago Demolition Derby.  I verbalize to a few people during the wait, but for the most purpose I relax, trying to larn dorsum to the identify I was inward during the drive.  I don't.

Without alarm some invisible dark-green flag drops as well as the RVs as well as Toyhaulers lay out jockeying for position.  Tires spin inward the dirt, huge rigs stone dorsum as well as forth equally brakes are slammed on, thence gas pedals mashed.  No quarter is given as well as it really is a mad stampede of aluminum as well as fiberglass buffalo driven on past times crazy wranglers.  My 1 ton van, which e'er seems thence large inward the grocery shop parking lot is dwarfed past times these behemoths as well as I am pushed around as well as have muddied looks equally I maneuver for a spot inward the queue.  Tempers flare as well as a few stone oil words are exchanged, but luckily development seems to proceed us from reverting dorsum to a to a greater extent than Neanderthal  response.   I could laissez passer 2 shits nigh where I destination upwards parking thence I neglect to empathize what all the huff is about.

I shortly get got bigger fish to nipper equally it becomes clear to me that I no longer get got the saline solution purchased 5 hours ago, or my contact lens case, both of which were seemingly left inward the parking lot of some CVS, metropolis as well as nation straightaway forgotten.  I curse myself for existence thence stupid as well as losing them.  I lay out canvassing the paddock amongst an empty plastic cup, begging for a few ounces of saline.  After nigh xx minutes my search yields plenty solution to final 3 days.  Best lay plans as well as all that.....

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