Monterey photos Saturday

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Saturday Monterey

We had a practice session in the morning and a race in the afternoon.  The morning session was shorten by a incident on track.  But by the afternoon race, I started to apply what I learned from the orientation program on Friday(still a long way to go).  But we ran most of the race under the yellow flag.  Multiple incidents the cause.  But overall the car ran fine and looking forward to Sunday.

Setup Friday

Got to the track around 11am, most all the other F5000 cars had setup.  Our setup was almost done when I found out the track orientation was about to start.  That lasted 4 hours.  After that we finished the setting up around 7:30.  We have to be back tomorrow morning for a 7:30am drivers meeting.

Didn't really have time for photos.  

Day 6 Pacific Ocean

Yesterday...
We made it!  Skipped the hotel and went straight to Pacific Ocean and dipped my toes it.
 The trip was a great experience and something on the bucket list to check off.
Now to the races.

The dunes at Marina State Park.

Marina, CA

Day 5 Auburn, CA

Yesterday spent most of the day traveling through Nevada.  More spectacular scenery.  Big change when we entered California.  Started to see tress again.

See a lot of these chemical plants in Nevada.

Looks different on TV.

Day 4 Wendover, Ut

Yesterday was good traveling, Western Wyoming landscape was very interesting. As was Utah.

Standing on the saltflats.

Lots of space

Somewhere in Wyoming

Day 3 Laramie, WY

We did not expect to be in make it to Wyoming yesterday.  But western Nebraska is pretty much  nothing but corn fields and hay bails.  No gas, no hotels.  The driving conditions yesterday were much better, no wind and the temp was low 80's.  Last night after passing through Cheyenne we reach a elevation of 8600 ft  The hotel is at 7300 ft.
The country side has changed a lot.  Starting to feel more desert.

See a lot of this.

Close to Wyoming

Day 2 Ankeny, Iowa

Yesterday was hot and windy through Illinois and Iowa. We're about a 1/3rd of the way to California.  I could not drive anymore yesterday because I reached my max hours set by the USDOT.  I have to spend the next ten hours off. 

The mighty Mississippi.

Day 1 Maumee, Ohio

Left a little later than planned yesterday, but made up the lost time last night.  So back on schedule.  So far this is a very familiar route(RT 80).  The same we take to many antique auctions and malls and Road America.  Not much will change until we past Chicago.

Leaving today

Yikes!    The to do list seems to be getting longer than shorter.  Hope to get out of here around noon. We'll see.

Saturday is the day

Leaving Friday was the option, but Saturday got the unanimous vote.  That still gets us to Calif. Thursday or Friday.  Apparently Thursday they start to lineup outside the track.  They leave their trailers there and come back Friday morning to get into the track. So I see no rush to get to the track early Friday.

All the race car stuff is packed.  Not loading the tent and poles makes for a lot of empty space.