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2009 Utah Grand Prix Risi F430 pits during friday practice

I am posting this from the Grand Canyon while we are having morning coffee.  Technology can be a groovy thing, can’t it?  Rather than flying out like I did last year, we decided to bring the entire family and make a holiday out of it.  We have traveled through, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and finally Arizona.  Tomorrow, we head north from the Canyon and up into Utah.  Part of the trip so far has been trying to see as much of Route 66 as is left.  Sadly, most of it has been consumed by time and I40, but there are still many interesting detours.  We also took a detour in Louisiana to see the site where Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed and riddled with bullets.   Its been a fun and interesting trip.

Cadillac Ranch

No trip through Texas would be complete without a stop at Cadillac Ranch.

My coverage of the race will begin on Friday at www.dperceptions.com, and I really cannot wait as I feel some of my best work came for the track last year; excited to tweak my shots and to find new ones. I was unable to make it out to Laguna Seca, so it has been quite a while since I have been out there with the circus. Here’s to hoping for less mayhem on the start this year. See you soon!

2009 Utah Grand Prix Gil de Ferran and Simon Pagenaud celebrate their win

Last Saturday was Twilight in Athens.  Its a multi day musical, cycling and all around fun time downtown.  Last year we went in the evening and watched only the men’s pro race, so we thought that an earlier insertion into the day this year would be better .  One of our friends was going to be racing in the amateur class at the Greenway Course, so we headed down to Jittery Joe’s at a relatively  early (for us) time of 9:30 AM.  We shot several of the qualifying heats and our friend was able to advance to the main amateur race later than evening where he placed 5th after being forced to start from the back of the field.  I think I came away with some strong work; and the strong feeling that my low speed panning skills needed honing.  Aside from finding out a triple homicide had taken place nearby and that the killer was loose, the day was great fun.  There were no internal combustion engines used, so the images went to my 2009 Athens Twilight Criterium Flickr set instead of my motorsports gallery.