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Drift Day:Midwest, Season Finale

USA International Raceway, a cart track just outside of Shawano, Wisconsin. No carts are buzzing around the track today though, Drift Day Fourty-Six has arrived. The squealing and smoking of tires, rapidly burning through layers of rubber has come again. Lots of familiar faces and the rolling hills that this particular track is draped over, always make for a good time. The day started at 30 degrees and a thick fog lingered all around.

After an hour or two, the fog had lifted, but there was still an overcasting of grey clouds keeping the sun at bay. Heading indoors to warm up a bit, I ran into more Minnesotans and We did that which We do..

In the early afternoon, the temps were into the 40’s and the sun popped out for fifteen minutes or so, allowing time for a race of those with skateboards. Around half the oval at the top of the hill and down past the pits, through a couple of turns, to the lowest point of the track. There are also a few shots of some of the guys playing about on pit lane.

There were a few hours of clear running. As anticipated however, the rain began again. Half of the drivers kept drifting for a little bit, before people packed up and headed towards their hometowns. I ate a lot of ribs this weekend, from two different places. Not to mention hash browns, fries, fried chicken, bratwurst and a bags worth of dried meats and candy. I also bowled one of My best games, took a personal low number of five hundred pictures, while standing in the clouds of many, now destroyed tires and got to see a bunch of My friends that live hundreds of miles away from Me. Thanks to the homies at ClubFR for bringing these events together, year after year…

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Drift Day 42 @ Shawano, WI

Ah,yes. Another journey to My favorite race track has occurred! I had never had a bad time at ‘UsaIR’. This time however, it was cold and perpetually raining. There was a lot of driving time for the 50+ entries. I’m sure they all saved some money on tires as well! For those of us standing out around the track, it was quite crappy. Just as the rain let up a bit, the wind kicked in. Drenched and wind-chilled, some of us tried to get some coverage of the action. Certainly the worst conditions that I have ever tried to ‘do photography’ in. I had to create a make-shift rain cover for My camera out of a trash bag and elected to use My old 450D, instead of risking the new 650D.. The majority of My shots came out terribly bad, like this. .. …

To Simba, Maggie and the rest of the Clubfr crew, as well as the drivers in attendance. Sorry, I didn’t get much worth looking at! It was just too bleak for Me! See You all in the spring!