Mugello

I was out there in 2005.
It's one of Ferrari's test tracks, near Florence. Great scenery, up in the mountains.
Nice bowl track.
I'll post some photos later. I saw Michael Schumacher, (slumped in a fast racecar), a bunch of old F1 cars in the hands of the rich drivers hired by some very rich people. I went there by train.
And a whole wack of Ferrari F1 Enzos.

For now, here's how a motorbike racer sees the track:
[off the track's website]

fuzzy vision

[Central Barcelona 2005]
[Pantera on kart track, Athens 2001?]
[Darzak]
[motorbike, upwardly mobile]
some fast moving vehicles and people.
The theory of relativity and some nifty camera work.
never ceases to amaze me.
For us, they seem to bend the space-time continuum, if only in one direction.

Indeed research has shown (I'll find it) that life does go at a different pace for those
speeding along and those waiting for them to pass by, e.g. at a Lemans pit, when the driver comes in for a fill-up and new tires.

That's why I love racing.
Hail Hail Enstein.

calabogie track

[Viper]
[Corvette]
[parabolica]
[change of weight balance]

some time ago, I went to a relatively new track around Ottawa, in the bush,
called Calabogie.
The area had been without a serious track for decades.

Used to be, motorheads were so crazy, they raced on the ice of the Ottawa River, near
the Prime Minister's house.
That is until a car fell through.

It was a cheap rental fee, for the river. Who says only Jesus can walk on water.

We can make cars roll on water, frozen, that is.

Anyway, a first-class track, fast, long, difficult.

-cosine67~~

Ready, set, take off

[keeping it out of the fire]
[pedal to the metal]
I finally got myself onto a race track, banging doors with other cars.
It's only been 25 years in the making.
Note the car number.

-cosine67