08-06-2007, 08:55 PM
This sunday I met up with Erik at Pacific Raceways for one of his races. I brought along my recording gear to get some out of car footage of the race. I got there at around 9:30, when he was still doing qualifying laps (which is why I couldn't find him on the paddock hehe) but eventually managed to track him down and chatted all things 968 <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/wink.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />
Being there really gave me an idea as to how relaxed these races are as almost anyone can get in, walk among the cars, drivers, etc. It's really neat! But I also got a pretty good workout once Eric's race finally started since the track people only give you 5 minutes to cross the track to all the good spectating locations, and seeing how there was more than one, I found myself running back and forth trying to get some good shots and footage. Unfortunately the group Eric was racing in had a pretty short race because of a couple of unrelated track incidents, both pretty serious. A yellow RX7 crashed and burned (literally), and one of the marshals had a heart attack all in the span of about 15 - 20 minutes while the race was stopped. Talk about an action filled day, and not the kind of action you hope to see at a race <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/sad.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />
Great to finally meet Eric too, really friendly guy! I think everyone should come out and support our local west coast 968 racer <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/cool.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />
Here is the video, hopefully Eric will be able to mirror this on his own site as my bandwidth is limited <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/wink.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> This is a compilation of the race day. Sorry about the poor race start footage, I lost site of the 968 in the sea of red cars, and I ended up zooming in instead of out while searching for his car, doh! But I did capture the pass he made on the 964!
Pacific raceways - August 5 2007
Being there really gave me an idea as to how relaxed these races are as almost anyone can get in, walk among the cars, drivers, etc. It's really neat! But I also got a pretty good workout once Eric's race finally started since the track people only give you 5 minutes to cross the track to all the good spectating locations, and seeing how there was more than one, I found myself running back and forth trying to get some good shots and footage. Unfortunately the group Eric was racing in had a pretty short race because of a couple of unrelated track incidents, both pretty serious. A yellow RX7 crashed and burned (literally), and one of the marshals had a heart attack all in the span of about 15 - 20 minutes while the race was stopped. Talk about an action filled day, and not the kind of action you hope to see at a race <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/sad.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />
Great to finally meet Eric too, really friendly guy! I think everyone should come out and support our local west coast 968 racer <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/cool.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />
Here is the video, hopefully Eric will be able to mirror this on his own site as my bandwidth is limited <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/wink.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> This is a compilation of the race day. Sorry about the poor race start footage, I lost site of the 968 in the sea of red cars, and I ended up zooming in instead of out while searching for his car, doh! But I did capture the pass he made on the 964!
Pacific raceways - August 5 2007
