Well, the first day of on-track activity is in the books.  As most of you probably have heard, the track we're running is not the track from last year.  It is pretty much the track from 2002 or 2003 (or whenever the last Supernats at the Rio were, I forget).  I don't know how other drivers feel about it, but for me this track is pretty dull with a pretty low degree of difficulty.  There's not much to separate the men from the boys so to speak.  On the other hand it is much "safer" and should drastically reduce the number of red flags from the TaGgers.

I'm hoping to get some photos posted, but my damn laptop is almost unbearably slow and the internet connection isn't much better.  I'm also planning on uploading some onboard footage tomorrow if I can figure out how to get the camera to work properly.

I ended up 14th or so today having not touched the chassis, waiting for the track to come in a bit.  Hopefully tomorrow I'll be a bit closer to the front.  Right now the fastest guys are not too surprising.  Dyer, Gidley, Wiegand and so forth.  I'm losing almost all of the .5 I'm off in one corner so I'll be working hard on de-turding my driving through there.  We'll see,  it's hard to teach an old dog not to pee on the rug.

The event itself looks to be as advertised;  lots of improvements in lots of different areas.  Overall a much more professional presentation.  Kudos to Tom and the entire SKUSA crew.  No sign of M. Schumacher as of yet.  Look for some photos of him tomorrow night.

Not much more to report as of yet.

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