It was great fun and George and his photo assistant took some cool pictures!

http://sis125.berkeley.edu/928/events/2004-ORR-holiday/



The karts seemed to be equal, and I guess I ended up i the most equal of them all.

 

Mmmmm.. Beer.

http://sis125.berkeley.edu/928/event...ay/image89.htm

 

It was great meeting you Anders! Thanks for joining us.

Anders is a funny guy....the worker at the front counter asked us how we did on our way out. Anders simply replied "I was the fastest Swedish driver on the track" Talk about an understatement!

Rich

 

Haha, well Bill was faster than me. I just managed to keep him behind most of the time and pass him the times when he managed to get through..

I experienced some language problems though when one of the officials held up the of the officials held up a sign warning about bumps (twice).. What does that mean?

 

Bill - time to get that track 928 going...dont you think?



I had to work all day...what a bummer ..



Marc

 

Anders,

Bumping huh? I think they figured gokarting was a non-contact sport.
I guess I should feel lucky you didn't drive my car the same way you
drove the kart...

Oh and that was my car that had the broken axle:
http://sis125.berkeley.edu/928/event.../ulthm1_81.htm

 

I wonder where the guys doing the flagging had learned their stuff, and I've never been accused of bumping when karting before. It is like the say in Days of thunder, rubbing is racing..

In speed alignments are interesting..

 

This was a lot of fun - even though I spun out a few times and lost some laps until they could get me back. The track was very slippery in some areas, and it took me quite some time to figure out how to deal with this changing slippiness. Towards the end my lap times got a lot better, but I was still a second slower than the pros...

It was fun to get together for racing, pizza, and then Swedish coffee at my house. Thanks everyone for being there. We had a great time!

Talking about Swedes invading: My house is currently being rearranged to become a 24-hour racing simulator... Just kidding!!!! Anders got a PlayStation 2 and is practicing for hours. First night he drove from 11PM to 8AM. Maybe that training is why he was so fast at the go-kart track...

 

Anders did you get to impregnant any American babes so you can stick around?

 

Hi kids -

I had a blast on Saturday. Poor Bill, he probably could have taken the fight to Anders but I kept roughing him up. I got the "no bumping" sign once after one particularly flagrant passing attempt. Anders is right - rubbin' is racin'. That's how we 'muricans do it.

 

Nope, and that seems to be a final way for me to get a visa, the H1's are unavailable until october so if anyone has got a creative idea let me know!

 

Bill got past me twice actually, but I somehow managed to get passed him before the end of the lap both times. There was one turn that I was experimenting with and it turned out that the fastest way around opened up enough space for Bill to stick his nose in and get me out of line.. I'm actually thinking of heading over there tonight to do some laps.

 

The no bump rule was violated regularly, all in great fun. Dennis and I were playing bumper cars for several laps, and I'm glad they didn't call us on it.

Yeah, I need to put the 79 back together. Right now it has it's wiring harness chopped up into little bits.

 

Anchor babies.

 

I went back to the track today and drove for a full two hours. After about 45 minutes I was down in the mid 21's. There were two faster drivers on the track at the same time though..