[BMAN]

My trip to Watkins Glen last June with Potomac was the start of my driving addiction. I had attended my 1st PCA DE a few weeks earlier at Shenandoah. D Seltzer was my instructor and he urged me to come to the Glen later that month. I had a great time at Shenandoah and prior had driven a couple of FATT events. I enjoyed driving but was far from addicted. 3 days at the Glen changed everything. TurboPooch was my instructor and at some point that weekend, probably when I got the nerve to climb the esses at a reasonable speed, I realized that I enjoyed driving on track A LOT. Since then I have driven at least one event every month except for Dec/Jan.

I've got it bad!

Ironically with all the driving I done over the past year I had not been back to Watkins. The news of the Potomac cancellation was painful. It wasn't the best decision for both my work and home schedules but I decided to make the trek this past weekend to attend a 3 day RTR event. I wasn't disappointed. I literally had chills pulling into the main gate. The facility is just awe inspiring with the huge bleachers and signage. The weather was fantastic and the event was really well run. The track was in great shape with only some reasonable bumps in the downhill T1 and T8. Interestingly they were filming a pilot for a new reality TV series about three people learning to drive on track. So there were cameras rolling during the drivers meetings, classroom session and out on track. Luckily not in the white run group!

I know it's old hat for a lot of you but for anyone that hasn't been, get your priorities straight and go!!!

I didn't see any Dorki's running in white, so I really don't have any video that would be of interest except.......I was black flagged! Two wheels off....you be the judge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spBcE9NMiKc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spBcE9NMiKc