This past weekend was a very interesting weekend...
I headed down to West Palm Beach for a bit of vacation, and to get away from the Carolinas.
The weather was awesome and made it down there in about 9.5 hrs. If you go there - I highly recommend checking out CityPlace... lots of bars/shopping/clubs/food. Plus it was 2 miles from my Hotel, and well they had a free shuttle service - definitely needed after going to some of the clubs there, lol.
Saturday we got up extra early and headed out to Sebring, FL - thats about 2 hrs from West Palm Beach.
We attended the 12 Hrs of Sebring, which was a lot of fun - but man that is a dirty/nasty/grimey/dusty track. My car and I where very nasty by the end of the day, lol.
Link to all of my pics:
http://s305.photobucket.com/albums/n...ebring%202011/
The Corvette corral was cool, and it was pretty cool seeing the factory Corvette ALMS racing team do there thing.
My only complaint about Sebring - it's not really spectator friendly - it was hard to find a good seat w/out being on bleachers, a motor home, etc.
Heres some pics and vids from Sebring:
Some race footage:
The race was fun and all - we left about 6pm and headed back to West Palm Beach after a slight detour due to my factory Nav unit.
We slept in Sunday a bit, and got on the road about 9am.
After about an hour outside West Palm Beach my rear tire decided to get punctured and explode @ 80mph. I tried the Green Slim fix a tire crap, and well the hole is so big - it didnt help! Awesome!
It being a Sunday, and no one having a Corvette tire in stock anywhere - I was stranded in Florida, 700 miles from home!
So after about 30 mins of calling around, I had a flat bed tow truck on the way, a truck rented - and a 4 wheel auto transport trailer as well.
14 hrs later... $200 bucks in gas... and I don't want to say how much for the rental - we got the car unloaded at 1am, and I had to be up at 5am for work the next day... so I'm still pissed off about Sunday so the car its sitting in the garage w/ a cover on it..... I'll get to it this weekend.
I will say this - I am glad I have my race ramps - they let me angle the steel ramps from the trailer good enough to back them off w/ no issue and no scraping the front bumper.
Pics of my PAIN from Sunday.... lol.
