[Mgs] OT Australia Eight hours day

[Rick Lindsay]

LOL Larry.  Yey, every year I ask myself, "What the
hell am I doing here?  I'm a 57 year old man!"  Then
the first car fires up and all my questions are
answered.

rick

--- Larry Daniels <ladaniels at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rick Lindsay" <rolindsay at yahoo.com>
> 
> As for being hot, I had a really terrible episode at
> the US race last summer.  Air temp was about 95
> degrees F and the track temp was about 20 degrees
> over
> that.  In the pits we stand all day on the tarmac,
> not
> the comfee corner posts of OZ. :-P  I got dehydrated
> this past year and all-but collapsed.  I ended up
> setting out much of race day.  Fortunately, I was
> working the pit-in flag station on COMS and flags.
> Thought you'd like that.
> 
> ==================
> 
> Ah, Rick, that brought back some memories.
> 
> I had a race back in the early 90's where the track
> temp was 135 F; I don't 
> recall the air temp.  I was driving a formula style
> car which is like 
> sliding into a cigar tube.  The car was black and
> the firesuit is like 
> wearing a snowmobile suit -- hot as hell.  I
> remember the last lap as being 
> a question of wondering if I could last without
> passing out.  Scared the 
> heck out of me.
> 
> I guess I didn't consider that the workers were
> experiencing nearly the same 
> conditions.  I just recall pulling into pit lane
> after the checker, getting 
> pulled out of the car and being so thankful that a
> worker poured cold water 
> down my suit.  I couldn't take the checkered flag
> for the victory lap and my 
> mechanic had to drive the car back to the paddock.
> 
> Can you believe that every once in a while I miss
> that?
> 
> Larry Daniels