Man it was great. I think I have hearing loss and lung damage. We were about 4 feet from the rear tires of each car, so we got the full blast of noise and smoke. (next year I'm taking note of the wind direction...) The winner was a Monte Carlo with no mufflers to speak of (I thought my eardrums were bleeding) and huge drag slicks. He left a pile of rubber 2" deep.
If you watch Monster Garage, the announcer guy (Big Schwag), was there with the donut cop car, the Escalade with the grill and big TV, and he also announced for the burnouts.
They don't call him 'Big' for nothing...
Also they had some live rock music, with speakers and subs so big you could hear it blocks away and feel the air move from 40 feet away.
And the best part? Powered parachutes! They had a few on display there, then took two to the local airport. These two flew past the show (which was right on the river) at about 40 feet. Awesome, I want one.
I'll link to some pictures later on, probably tomorrow (you gotta see 'em). There's a local company called Select Shots that goes to all the events and takes pictures, then puts them on their website to sell full-size versions.
I was going to enter my sister's Explorer, until 1.3 milliseconds later the thought came to me that in the past, no matter how wet the road or what I did, it wouldn't even chirp the tires. Forget that.....
Also they had some motorcycles burning out too, the champion from last year got up against a concrete barricade and burned until the tire blew, that was kinda stupid, but really impressive.
As we were walking away after it was over, brushing small chunks of rubber off our clothes and out of our hair, I felt something wet on my arm. I look down to see...
BLOOD!
There was blood dripping off of a cut on my arm where a chunk of motorcycle tire rubber had impacted my arm at high speed and ripped a nice hole. I felt it at the time but didn't look to see what it did and promptly forgot about it.
The state trooper at the exit kinda looked at me funny as I walked by with a bloody arm....wonder what he was thinking...
But after I got the blood wiped off with a napkin and poured some of that alcohol hand-cleaner crap on it (god that burned), I was most dissapointed at the size of the cut. I was hoping for stitches or something.....but it was barely a scratch. Must have been the rate of impact that made it bleed so much...
So anyway.......................................
Oh, and that ear-splitting, rubber burning Monte Carlo is for sale for $6000.......
Edit: Gosh that was a long speech....
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