charging up with indycar in sonoma

My morning at the racetrack in Sonoma (formerly known as Infineon Raceway) started with a crack. Not the crack of dawn, but the butt crack of some photographer loading himself into the media shuttle van. That was a sight I really could have done without.

To make it worse, this guy and his wife (Im assuming) spent the entirety of our ride down to the media center complaining about how they had to go through track security the day before and it was SO HORRIBLE because they needed to look inside their bags. Ive gone through that same process and it is by no means the long, arduous, intrusive & annoying process they made it out to be. It was so annoying. Then they starting saying some racially inappropriate things about how theyd know if a person of a certain ethnic background put stuff... [via The Fast And The Fabulous]