Some races have Grid Girls hold the signs.
Indy driver Dario Franchitti has his wife actress Ashley Judd hold his pit board.
At Maxton we had
Cliff Vaughn, check out the body language.
When I first asked for volunteers to cover the Speed Sign for the competitors, I had one gal say she would do it, but she didn't want to do it all day, she has been at almost all of our
Wanderlodge Owners Group Bluebird / Maxton Mini-Rallies, but then after Saturdays racing was over, her comment was "This was the best Maxton that I have ever attended" she went onto explain that she felt that she was more involved in the event than just being a spectator and that the reactions from the drivers and riders was worth all of the effort that was involved, I witnessed a few of the reactions and they were indeed very energetic and sometimes almost ecstatic at seeing the speeds that they had accomplished and there were also a few disappointed reactions too.
She has volunteered to take over the chore to organize those wanting to help out with this job at our future
Wanderlodge Owners Group Bluebird / Maxton Mini-Rallies. Cliff Vaughn, Barbara Vaughn, Pat Gideon, Nancy Brookshire, Nancy Rembert, Bruce Cambell and Laura Campbell handled the Speed Sign at the short shutdown road. I have been requested to get another chalkboard, for them to use, as they sometimes had two vehicles coming up the return road, one from short shutdown and the other from the end of the track and she said that they wanted everybody to see their speeds and felt that they were not doing as good of a job as they could have, so another chalkboard is on my shopping list, I did mention that a sign that had numbers that could be changed was available, but they preffere using the chalkboard. We will be back again with our next
Wanderlodge Owners Group Bluebird / Maxton Mini-Rallies, for the October race.
We encourage any of you that desire to come on by our parking area and say hello to our group and even come on down and join us at our campfires that we have each night weather permitting, we are just a bunch of gearheads, that just happen to own, restore and maintain our Bluebird Wanderlodges, you can view our photo album of the event at
http://www.pbase.com/iamflagman/wanderlodge_owners_group_mini_rallies_at_maxton_and_other_races OH YES, as a side note...Cliff says he will work on his body language too
