Texas World Speedway, last weekend

[Eric Waterman]

The '05 convention was at TWS, and it was a blast to drive on.  It was my
first experience with a "roval" type track, so the transition from flat to
banking and back made me nervous.  Grep Perry was out there and I was able
to get a few pictures of me crossing the start finish line too.  We went
counter clockwise though.

Eric Waterman

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Jim Wright <wrightj at apple.com> wrote:

> Back in 1995, I visited Texas World Speedway for the 1st time, and saw an
> IMSA race there.  Back then, I dreamed of how cool it would be to actually
> drive my car (a still fairly new '91 SE-R) on that track.  16 years, and
> another SE-R later, that wish finally came true.
>
> Over the weekend I participated in their Performance Driving school,
> driving my '06 SE-R Spec V.  I had a blast, it was an extremely educational
> and fun weekend.  I had a chance to have three different instructors sit in
> with me and impart great amounts of wisdom as we flew around the 2.9 mile
> course.
>
> On Sunday I took a few pics, one of which turned out so great I just had to
> share:
>
> http://wrightthisway.com/images/tws2.jpg
> http://wrightthisway.com/images/tws1.jpg
>
> It's not easy to take a picture of yourself driving 100MPH, the average
> speed I was going at that part of the track…  I had a camera set up with a
> time delay set to start taking pics just after my next session started,
> taking pics at 1 second intervals.  Amazingly, on the 2nd lap the above
> photo was snapped, and it couldn't have been more perfect.
>
> I had much less success with my in car video, the suction mount I had
> failed to stay attached no matter where I placed it in the car, my last
> ditch effort to wedge the camera between the two rear seats seemed like it
> was going to work (camera stayed put the whole time), but it turned itself
> off about 8 minutes in because the seat vibrated against the power button,
> and all I got was footage of the instructor and I talking before getting on
> the track.
>
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