I do love a bit of motorsport me. Sadly I married a TV addict who loves shit telly so that's what we watch. I love endurance racing and my heart died when I saw the end of the Le Mans this year. Toyota deserved that win and it's such a shame that they didn't make it. F1 can suck my balls, that sport sold its soul to the devil a long, long time ago. I love the TT and can't wait to go. I'll probably go next year if I can find a fucking ferry to get me there.
As for drag racing, well, I remember as a youngster going to the former Rainbow Raceway a couple of times. The strip was always the underdog to the Tarlton international raceway but we could never go there. It was simply too much of a bitch to get there and the tickets were out of the reach of whoever we were with (and my self). For this reason Rainbow used to bend the rules quite a bit to draw in more fans. The track was built in 1968 and finally folded in 2003 when they lost all affiliation with the saffer racing board. My fondest memory was when we were there and my mate and I went to get some soft serve for us and his parents. The soft serve was right at the start of the track, so we got what we wanted, started walking back, when a couple of funny cars ripped a burnout. Of course my instant reaction was to preserve my hearing so I stuck my fingers in my ears.
I spent the rest of the day with sticky ears and swatting bees away from me wondering when one of the fuckers was going to zap me. A wise lesson was learned that day.
Anyway. The jet cars were always a flop for me. They just didn't have the same appeal because I knew that they were a party trick and it didn't matter which was fastest. Then one day they set off and one of them had an afterburner failure so spent the whole track setting the grass on the side alight, which meant that the track was shut down for an hour whilst the only fire truck took care of it. There were only four jet cars in the whole country, here's two of them at the aforementioned Tarlton.
Anyway. That all died when I left South Africa and hasn't really been ignited since. There are some folks on another forum I visit who own a car called Bad Habit. I've never seen it in the flesh but I think Crispy might have, dunno. You may recognise it, I dunno.
I should probably get in to motorsport. Nothing like kicking people's arses.