A blog from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Posted in Sports on Aug 26th, 2010
This Saturday night at 8pm on Versus, the IZOD IndyCar series is racing at Chicagoland Speedway. Below is a clip of the end of the race last year. Cars running well over 200 mph, wheels exposed and inches from each other 3 wide. They raced like this for most of the race [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Sports on Aug 9th, 2010
The wife got free tickets and pit passes to the ARCA Remax race at Berlin Raceway in Marne Michigan last night. ARCA is basically a driver development league for people trying to make their way up the ranks of the stock car racing world. The cars they are driving are the old race [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Friends and Family, Sports, Work on Jul 23rd, 2010
We were invited to a company outing at the Whitecaps a little while back. One of my friends were there who knows I think mascots are disgusting. Those costumes are filthy and have to stink of sweat and fart on the inside of those big dumb heads.
So he somehow go the mascot [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Friends and Family, Sports on Jun 10th, 2010
Last weekend was the accumulation of a couple months of planning and prepping. In the end we succeed in surprising Bill.
It all starts with Bill being a small boy going to Tiger Stadium and asking “Mr. Morris” for his autograph. Mr. Morris then told Bill “I don’t have time for you kid” [...]
Posted in Sports on Jun 6th, 2010
Going along with the other IndyCar scary crap for the night, check out these pictures of Mike Conway’s wreck at the Indy 500. At 220 mph he goes air borne and hits the catch fence, the car explodes into a billion pieces and he comes out of it with a broken back and a [...]
Watching the IndyCar race when Simona deSilvestro’s car burst into flames. In what seems like an eternity for the safety crew to get their heads together and pull her out of the fire. At one point I am yelling at the TV, “GET HER OUT OF THE EF-ING CAR!” thinking I was watching [...]
Mario Moraes parks his car on Marco Andretti’s head in Sau Paulo Brazil. This was a wild and one of the best street circuit races I have seen in a really long time.
Watch IndyCars run Sunday March 28th at 3:30PM on ABC this Sunday as they race the street circuit in St. Petersburg Florida.
Posted in Entertainment, Sports on Mar 9th, 2010
The IndyCar season finally begins this weekend with the first race ever in Sao Paulo Brazil. I am not a super fan of street courses as I prefer road circuits or ovals better, but a street course is better than nothing. Actually they will be better when the new engine package comes in [...]