Questions about spectators

That's sound advice. After our car died at Reno, I spent quite a bit of time hanging in the penalty area - something I haven't had a chance to do while racing. It was definitely pretty damn entertaining.

As a 2-time spectator/amateur photgrapher at Lemons with no team affiliation (until now), here's what I've got...

Friday: BS and practice can be pretty entertaining

Sat:
The first 2-3 hours of racing are pretty entertaining as there's lots of breakage and chaos due to a bigger, inexperienced field.

After that, depending on what you can see of the track, it gets a little slow. I recommend lunch and then hanging out near judging. Not only will you see some hilarious penalties, you can usually hear what's up over the staffs' radios.

Not much to be missed if you take off early on Sat.

Sunday: Both The Curse and awards ceremony are not to be missed.

The pits are more interesting than the track, as cars are in worse and worse shape ("We've only got 3rd gear!").

Dunno Stafford specifically, but you'll probably want to bring food (or $$$ for track food), water, sunblock, and something like a magazine for the slower times (lots of laps under yellow). Chairs would be a good idea. Binoculars if they've got them.

You can pay at gate at all the other races check with Nick or Jay .

How about for pit passes. Is today the deadline for non-drivers for New England or can they buy them that day?

Yeah, there's a difference between crew and spectator passes--if you're just coming to spectate, you get full access to the paddock but you can't work on cars (it's a different wristband), and you don't get a t-shirt. You can buy that at the gate on race day.

The crew pass you need to buy now via your team web page. You can buy one at the gate but we don't really have a good way of handling that--it'll involve a lot of waiting for Jay to come out of his luxury trailer.

Wow. Baller. Jay has a quadrople wide now?! Must be all the money he's saving by not claiming any of the racer's crap cans.

crud. thats pretty much our entire crew. i'll have to tell them to bring something to loosen the bureaucratic cogs

Yeah I had like 10 "wrench men" that wanted to help... When it came time to buck up (cause I sure as hell am not PAYING for someone who wants to work on my Lemons ride) nobody did, so its just the 6 of us drivers, which honestly is perfectly fine.

You realize that this is a Lemons race, right?  Our team had to do exactly this.

I hear you on that. Got home at 7am yesterday building the cage in our car all night. The only problem is that i am the only one that knows the car putting it all on me...I'm also a control freak so I guess I'd be doing the work myself anyway:-)