January 13th, 2001 (SPEEDS in Columbus, Oh)

The second round of Speeds Go-Karting saw many of the same faces and some new ones, including a few Honda-Tech members from West Virginia that joined the North Hills crew (check out their site, Busted Shocks for more pics and such. Always nice to race with new people, Travis even managed to get into the Rabbit finals (top 10 of the day), where he choked catastrophically (heh, just kidding, nice job by all!). I drove down with Tim, who has a GS-R in New Jersey and has autocrossed there, he's going to school here and assisted me with my most recent valve adjustment since Matt is too busy working on race engines in florida...well, Tim complains alot less anyway :) We enjoyed the 2 and a half hour drive in my R, which at the time had no interior, and by it's nature has no sound deadening...IT WAS FREAKING LOUD!!! we had fun yelling at it.

This event happend on a much colder day than our first, and it showed in the way the karts behaved...the tires never really got past lukewarm, and people were sliding alot more than usual...the wall became an important ally in keeping you on the line, although usually at the price of some kidneys or a rib. Once agian, I placed 4th overall, SOOO close to a cool trophy...but as someone pointed out from my logic in the last karting race recap, 4th is 3rd place for loosers! I get the smallest looser trophy, w00t! Check out the speeds site HERE....on to the pics!

Andy has a few at the bar, and starts getting that suave look in his eye

Those of you who are about to die, we salute you!

The rules of the road are laid down..."No cussin', no spittin'..." Not in this crowd sir!

The hallway leading to the pits

The peanut gallery spectates

ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?!?!

The back straight, where karts approach 40MPH so they say

Looks like he just hit the NOS

Yeeha!

yeeha again!

Moving right along

we weren't using the flash to distract you, honest! Ryan made me!

Prepare for the jump to lightspeed

The reflection off the floor doesn't exactly scream "traction"

Stealth technology (or no flash...you decide!)

Mike takes in the competition

there's a bogey on your six!

his helmet is so bright...he's LIGHT HEADED!!! HA! do any of you ever wonder how i got so funny? So do i.

Drafting!

You'd be flooring it too if there was a canister of propane strapped to your butt.

Sweet 16 blazes by the spectators

Just like when you exceed ludicrus speed in spaceballs..."He's gone to plaid!"

Riding the yellow line

Didn't your driving instructor tell you? Both hands on the wheel!

Tim avoids the papparatzi

Some North Hillers watch the action from behind the safety of a big plastic window

Hunter S. Thompson Sez "This is not a good town for psychadellic drugs..."

Hey look! It's me! Lookit me!

Me getting a little tail out, 911 style.

The podium for the "Turtles"...the fastest of the not so fast!

The podium for the "Woodchucks"...the fastest of the reasonably speedy!

The scoresheet for the final Woodchucks race

The podium for the "Rabbits", the Fastest and the Furiousest! If i'd only killed one of these guys, i'd have a shiny trophy....but i'm a well adjusted individual, and would never think of such things! Especially out loud! Did i say that?

See how them bunnies did.

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